[mythtv-users] Myth, WinXX Playback & 20 questions

[Torbjörn Jansson]

Are your recording in mpeg4 or in mpeg2? The directshow filter currently
only works with nupple vilde files (mpeg4/rtjpeg) and not mpeg2 files.
If the nuv file begins with "MythTVVideo" then it's a nupplevideo file and
not mpeg2 so the directshow filters shoud work.

If it is mpeg4 and you have problem with ffdshow you migt want to give the
3ivx mpeg4 codecs a try, I use them now and it works fine, no blockiness as
with divx v5 sometimes.

If you are still using win98 you might want to upgrade to for example winxp,
I woudn't be surprised if some (maybe all) of your problems went away.

Platform sdk is not a part of visual studio, you can get it from:
http://www.microsoft.com/msdownload/platformsdk/sdkupdate/

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> DSMYTH
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> I've downloaded the DSMYTH package (http://dsmyth.sf.net) and that
> seems to work (right click on NUV files show stuff from mysql)
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> Got the source - I don't have VisualStudio 7 - :-( can't do much else
> with it.
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> Seems that site has gone cold since October. I did see a recent post
> out of the blue about live tv working - no updated source though.
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It's not cold, it's just that I'm still working on the new filter.
All the new code is in cvs. There is some issues to solve first before
releasing it.

Livetv works, but not channel changing yet. I have to figure out a way to
handle the ringbuffer since it's being reset.
Playing recorded files works fine.
Playing a file as it's being recorded also works.

Lately I have been trying to get the seeking working with files that's being
recorded.
I have seen some realy odd behavior with different mediaplayers.

For example, mplayer2 (v6.4) determines the length of the file by looking at
the stop position and not the duration.
It also only reads the length once at the beginning and then sets the length
of the seek bar to that value (usualy just a few seconds) and then when the
length changes it draws the seekbar outside the window.

It shoud be posibel to get this new network source filter to work with mpeg2
files too, but since I don't have anything to test with it's a bit hard.