[mythtv-users] Seek Tables

Mark Perkins perkins1724 at hotmail.com
Sat Aug 16 14:03:15 UTC 2014



> On 16 Aug 2014, at 7:26 pm, "James Linder" <jam at tigger.ws> wrote:
> 
> 
> On 16 Aug 2014, at 3:52 pm, mythtv-users-request at mythtv.org wrote:
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>>> On 16 Aug 2014, at 2:05 pm, "Jean-Yves Avenard" <jyavenard at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi
>>> 
>>>> On Saturday, August 16, 2014, Nick Rout <nick.rout at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Thus  the myth of upnp compatibility is exposed again!
>>> 
>>> Or more likely the video was poorly encoded.  
>>> _______________________________________________
>> 
>> I have a Samsung TV (sample size of 1), it's UPnP ability is just hopeless, truely hopeless. Its compatability with just about any file type / format is nearly non existent even when using the Samsung UPnP server software. Yet if you stick the same file on a USB drive it plays perfectly.
>> 
>> It's all just crappy Samsung implementation.
>> 
>> People have got in and reversed engineered the firmware to fix the many, many faults - but compatability varies from model to model. See http://www.samygo.tv
> 
> First thanks for all the answers, Glen I will try the ffmpeg option.
> My frustration is that I have done this before, all works, and as I recall the ONLY difference is that I used an earlier version of myth. This is fixes/0.27 [v0.27-229-g9f353cc-dirty]
> 
> 1) I record off air
> 2) generate a cutlist removing commercials (but upnp will not honour the cut list)
> 3) Use mytharchive to create an iso for a dvd
> 4) link: ln work/1/newfile.mpg /store/Movies/MrsDoubtfire.mpg
> 
> ie grab the mpg file in time.
> now the mpg file will grow as needed but be kept at the end of mytharchive command
> 
> My other files ARE seekable. Did I forget something or is this broken in 0.27 ?
> James
> _______________________________________________

Sorry, but you have completely lost me with your 4 steps. I can't work out what you are trying to do with them or how it relates to upnp.

Will MythTV upnp even serve ISO files? I have no idea but would have guessed not, but I could be wrong.


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