That I forgot to put the slides from Stewart and my MythTV tutorial at LCA online. So, here they are, and sorry for the delay. You can also see the video of the tutorial here, and the homework we set here. Weirdly, there is even a remix video of the presentation.
That I forgot to put the slides from Stewart and my MythTV tutorial at LCA online. So, here they are, and sorry for the delay. You can also see the video of the tutorial here, and the homework we set here. Weirdly, there is even a remix video of the presentation.
Might come in handy if I ever change pay TV provider in the US... DirecTV set top boxes are controllable via USB.
To get nuvexport working with MythTV User Jobs as a transcoder, I needed to further modify my nuvexport patch to handle the fact that there is no controlling terminal for user jobs. Here is the new patch: Index: export/ffmpeg.pm =================================================================== --- export/ffmpeg.pm (revision 242) +++ export/ffmpeg.pm (working copy) @@ -70,11 +70,11 @@ # Audio only? $self->{'audioonly'} = $audioonly; # Gather the supported codecs - my $data = `$ffmpeg -formats 2>/dev/null`; + my $data = `$ffmpeg -formats 2>&1`; my ($formats) = $data =~ /(?:^|\n\s*)File\sformats:\s*\n(.+?\n)\s*\n/s; my ($codecs) = $data =~ /(?:^|\n\s*)Codecs:\s*\n(.+?\n)\s*\n/s; if ($formats) { - while ($formats =~ /^\s(..)\s(\S+)\s*$/mg) { + while ($formats =~ /^\s(.{2})\s(\S+).*$/mg) { $self->formats'}{$2} = $1; } } @@ -286,7 +286,7 @@ push @tmpfiles, "/tmp/fifodir_$$", "/tmp/fifodir_$$/audout", "/tmp/fifodir_$$/vidout"; # Execute ffmpeg - print "Starting ffmpeg.\n" unless ($DEBUG); + print "Starting ffmpeg: $ffmpeg\n" unless ($DEBUG); ($ffmpeg_pid, $ffmpeg_h) = fork_command("$ffmpeg 2>&1"); $children{$ffmpeg_pid} = 'ffmpeg' if ($ffmpeg_pid); Index: export/ffmpeg/PSP.pm =================================================================== --- export/ffmpeg/PSP.pm (revision 242) +++ export/ffmpeg/PSP.pm (working copy) @@ -170,7 +170,8 @@ $self->{'ffmpeg_xtra'} = ' -b ' . $self->{'v_bitrate'} .' -bufsize 65535' .' -ab 32 -acodec aac' - ." -f psp -title $safe_title"; + ." -f psp -title $safe_title" + .' -ar 24000'; # Execute the parent method $self->SUPER::export($episode, '.MP4'); Index: nuv_export/shared_utils.pm ===================================================================…
It sounds like Windows Media Center can be frustrating.