[mythtv-users] next step the player, any suggestions?

[John Pilkington]

On 26/10/2022 14:15, Hika van den Hoven wrote:
> Hoi Hika,
> 
> Wednesday, October 26, 2022, 2:40:15 PM, you wrote:
> 
>> Hoi Stephen,
> 
>> Wednesday, October 26, 2022, 10:44:12 AM, you wrote:
> 
>>> On Tue, 25 Oct 2022 17:51:24 +0200, you wrote:
> 
>>>> hdhomerun_config <ip-address> save /tuner<id> - | ffmpeg -i - -map 0:a -f mp3 - | mpg123 -
> 
>>> I am not sure why you are using the MP3 codec here.  MP3 is a dreadful
>>> codec - compressing with it drastically reduces the quality of the
>>> audio.  Just converting the audio by decompressing it to WAV format
>>> would be much better, and then you can just use aplay:
> 
>>> hdhomerun_config <ip-address> save /tuner<id> - | ffmpeg -i - -map 0:a
>>> -f wav - | aplay
>>> _______________________________________________
> 
>> I'll give it a try. Earlier aplay would not accept piped input. But
>> that could have been the mp3 format. I did try forwarding the native
>> format with 'copy' but that created confusion between the pipe and the
>> format auto-detect mechanism. A pipe has no extension! ;-)
>> The first task was getting it to work. Now comes optimization and the
>> fancy work. I might add switches to my python shell to select what
>> output to use.
> 
> Well, that does not exactly work. Either aplay's auto-detect is not so
> very well or ffmpeg sends incorrect metadata. The result anyhow is a
> kind of white noise. It's difficult to determine which text output is
> from ffmpeg and which from aplay. I'll have to exactly specify output
> and input on both side and maybe that will work.
> I think I will first try to implement pyalsa and possibly pyffmpeg.
> That will probably give more control.
> 
> For now at least my morning wake-up radio is working.

I tried this on a normal TV recording file:

  ffmpeg -i  /home/john/SGs/RcSG2/11157_20221017143600.ts  -map 0:a -f 
wav - | aplay

and the audio played fine

John
> 
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