[mythtv-users] Philips 32PFL5007K/12 TV set and a UPnP problem

[Janusz S. Bien]

Quote/Cytat - mythtv-users-request at mythtv.org (Sun 24 Aug 2014  
02:00:01 PM CEST):

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> Message: 4
> Date: Sun, 24 Aug 2014 12:12:44 +0100
> From: John Pilkington <J.Pilk at tesco.net>

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> On 24/08/14 10:32, John Pilkington wrote:
>> On 08/24/2014 08:35 AM, Janusz S. Bien wrote:
>
>>> Thanks again for your answer. To make a long story short, you are right:
>>> the recordings can be played on the TV set as videos.
>>>
>>> Moreover, perhaps because of recent upgrades, gupnp-av-cp no longer has
>>> problems with MythTV. So I restore the previous subject.
>>>
>>> Unfortunately the details are quite confusing for me.
>
> You aren't alone with that.  Stuart M has indicated that uPnP is being
> worked on for 0.28, but I haven't hunted for details.

Perhaps the new version will solve my problem...

>
> I thought I should add another comment.  I'm glad that you can now play
> your recordings as 'Videos', but your problem isn't exactly the same as
> the one that I had with my Panasonic TV series E5.

I agree.

>
> I could play raw recordings (mpeg2-ts), but after they had been
> converted to mpeg2-ps by the cutting program they had to be played as
> 'Videos'.  Reverting #9446 lets me play them all as 'Recordings' and
> offers better control of playback.

Yesterday with the help of Charles Marillat, the maintainer of the
MythTV unofficial Debian packages (I use Debian jessie, i.e. the testing
distribution), I compiled the version with reverted #9446 but it doesn't
help for my problem.

>
> I understand that for you the raw recordings don't play as
> 'Recordings'..

That's correct.

> Maybe your log offers clues about that, but I haven't
> seen them yet.

I will be happy to provide any log which may be relevant.

BTW, my statement

>> mythbackend --setverbose none,upnp gives some strange errors:

is of course false, I've just made a stupid mistake.

>>> And about a month
>>> ago another diagnostic tool was posted here but TTBOMK it isn't
>>> 'supported', and although I've used it I'm not familiar with it and I
>>> probably shouldn't be mentioning it....
>>
>> I somehow missed this posting, I will be glad to give it a try.
>
> http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/572262#572262

The scripts seems to hang.

Best regards

Janusz

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Lingwistyki Formalnej)
Prof. Janusz S. Bień - University of Warsaw (Formal Linguistics Department)
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