[mythtv-users] HDHR + Over the Air + Sony Network Media Player + Buffalo NAS

[Jeff Tucker]

On 15.12.2011 16:57, Jeff Tucker wrote:
>> My problem is that I want to view the recordings on the Sony Media 
>> Player but it supports DivX, WMV9, MPEG-1/2, AVCHD, MPEG-4 AVC, MKV.
>> The current format is not recognized by the media player.
>
>> How does the recording get to the player? Via some disk or via some 
>> UPNP
> network access?
>
>> If it is the latter then its likely that the Sony player wants some
> special treatment that mythtv doesnt do yet.
>> For an example of other Sony devices with that issue see
>> http://code.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/9446
>
> Karl, Right now I am copying the resulting MPG file to my NAS and the 
> media player should see it from there. At least it sees other 
> movies/videos I have on the NAS but does not recognize the MPG file.

According to the internet you might have better luck with the "correct"
file name extension for MPEG-2 Transport of .mts (from
http://forum.serviio.org/viewtopic.php?p=24755#p24755 )

> Thanks for the URL. I read it and it makes since. I will try minidlna 
> to test it out. Do you know where to make the protocol changes in MythTv?

no idea, I just saw some tickets wrt Sony DLNA pass by which all hinted that
they need some quircks.

But transcoding to MPEG-2 PS and calling them .mpg might work, too.


Thanks for the response! Here is an update.

I installed minidlna on my BE and set it up to scan the
/var/lib/mythtv/recordings path and it seems to work now.

I guess it is time to start figuring out how to transcode the video files to
remove commercials, obtain video art and putting the videos in a more
organized structure.

Thanks for your help.

Once I get more comfortable with this setup I will start trying to integrate
the minidlna protocol settings into MythTV.