<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Aug 12, 2023 at 1:04 PM Evuraan <<a href="mailto:evuraan@gmail.com">evuraan@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">> I see from your wiki page that the recordings have to be transcoded to h.264. That's the showstopper for me.<br>
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<br>
The mythtv/wiki link is not about my implementation, but I was trying<br>
to provide additional context to answer the "what is maestro"<br>
question. Likely ended up confusing you!<br>
<br>
I am able to play files without transcoding to h.264 - it depends on<br>
the roku device model. One of my roku devices can play pretty much as<br>
recorded OTA.<br>
<br>
This is a "smart" 4k tv from recent years:<br>
<br>
Stream #0:0[0x1](und): Video: mpeg2video (Main) (mp4v / 0x7634706D),<br>
yuv420p(tv, top first), 704x480 [SAR 40:33 DAR 16:9], 2353 kb/s, 29.97<br>
fps, 29.97 tbr, 30k tbn (default)<br>
Stream #0:1[0x2](und): Audio: ac3 (ac-3 / 0x332D6361), 48000 Hz,<br>
stereo, fltp, 192 kb/s (default)<br>
<br>
However, my older roku cannot play the ac3 audio - I would need to use<br>
mp3 acodec:<br>
<br>
ffmpeg -err_detect ignore_err -i "$srcFile" -video_track_timescale<br>
30000 -vcodec copy -acodec mp3 -fflags +genpts <output file><br>
<br>
( Not re-encoding the video, just copying the bitstream of the video<br>
to the output, but change the audio to mp3 - from that point on this<br>
file is playable on all my devices. )<br>
<br>
Given how much of a rabbit hole this is, considering the device<br>
capabilities + format combo, the orchestrator expects to find<br>
"playable" files in the folder from `-recordingsPath` argument. It<br>
does not do on the fly video re-encoding.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>My Roku is an Ultra. Not sure why I bought a 4K Roku as my first streaming device but it was about $80 in 2016. I then bought a Nvidia Shield in 2017. ~$180. Both were okay but not great. Once I could get a FireTV 4K for $25 on Prime Day, I was set. Every year when the latest and greatest goes on sale for $25 I buy another one. Now all TVs in my house have a FireTV 4K along with my 2 TVs in my RV.</div><div><br></div><div>I need to find someone local who wants the Roku and the ShieldTV and I'll give them away. It costs more to mail them than they are worth anymore. <br></div><div><br></div><div>Jim A</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div>