[mythtv-users] ATV MythTV app with BBC audio description

[Andre Newman MythTV]

> On 23 Jul 2018, at 23:11, John Pilkington <johnpilk222 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 23/07/18 14:40, Andre Newman MythTV wrote:
>> Hi,
>> I can’t find any where with much info about the MythTV ATV app, I’ve emailed the developer but wondered if there are many on here using this app?
>> I just got the app today but have had MythTV running for 10+ years.
>> I find that with all the BBC (UK) recordings the MythTV app only plays the audio description track not the normal programme audio, not very useful! I can’t find any way to change the audio from inside the recording and changing the audio language in the ATV settings doesn’t change this.
>> The only oddity I know is that the BBC transport streams have the audio description first although the regular ac3 or aac audio is correctly described as English. MythTV and Kodi pick the correct audio channel.
>> Has anyone come across this, know any solution? As it stands the app is pretty useless for most of my recordings. :-(
>> Andre
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> Hi:  This isn't the answer you're looking for, but you might like to look at my mythTScut script.  I wrote it for dvb-t HD recordings, and the output has only 2 streams, video and main audio..It uses mythffmpeg. There's no re-encoding, so it's quick, although cutting requires two passes.

Well you are correct, it’s not the answer I’m looking for… Thanks anyway.

While I could process every BBC ITV & Channel 4 recording on the system, it’s not really a solution for in progress recordings or really a long term solution.

Infuse doesn’t seem to want to talk to MythTV’s upnp server so maybe I’ll give MrMC a try, shame, I like the minimalist approach of the MythTV app.

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> I was never entirely happy with the results immediately after a cut or switches between progressive and interlaced formats.

I don’t find that too objectionable, it seems to give good playback quality once it’s got going and that’s the most important thing.

>  Playback was often better via UPnP.
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> It was getting to look worthwhile until my only DVB-T2 device started giving usb over-current problems :-(  I'm still wondering how much storage I really want.

Um don’t ask me!

andre at fair:~$ sudo du -hs /var/lib/mythtv
87T	/var/lib/mythtv

Andre

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> John
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