[US][2011] Blu-Ray BD-D5300 (not working) [NOT SUPPORTED]

[johnsonx42]

I'll try using the smart hub reset function and start over. All the other apps work fine, though I recently uninstalled everything except Pandora and Plex (plus the six that can't be removed).

[johnsonx42]

I did the smart hub reset function this morning and then re-installed the app, now version 0.037. Finally the debug window appears, with 4 lines of text. Still no button does anything, all I can do is exit. I don't know whether resetting had anything to do with it, or if it's just the fact that I'm using the newer build. Stay tuned and I'll key in the exact text from the debug window.

[johnsonx42]

Debug text (v0.037):

Code:

screen saver time(sec): 10
oSecond: 10
Common.API.Plugin.setOnScreenSaver()id: NextPVR
Debug Off: false

edit: by the way, I've tried it with the player set to output both 1080i and 720p, no change. I know you were just tossing out an idea, not that you really expected that to be it... just want you to know I'll follow up on anything you suggest.

[reven]

sorry you must of missed it in another thread, but the 2011 and earlier devices use a samsung custom javascript engine which doesnt support a lot of functions. this makes the main library I use (angular.js) unusable. So I would have to completely rewrite large amounts on the code to support 2011.

so unfortunately only 2012 and upwards will be supported.

[johnsonx42]

yes, I know, I'm the one you were talking to about it in the other thread. perhaps your response was meant for someone else?

anyhow, I think it might be just as well your app doesn't run on 2011 devices. I found that my player can't play .ts files for crap, at least not via Plex. If they even start playing, you can't skip and even just stopping playback is nearly impossible; most don't even play. Even forcing transcoding at the server doesn't help much. Oddly though, if I just remux the .ts file to an .mkv, no transcoding, they play perfectly.

[reven]

sorry, so much info going back and forth on this forum between lots of people, can't remember who I was talking to about what (and looking at the date of your post, it was just my sillly feedly chrome extension saying there was a new post when there wasnt one...)

can you supply the method you use to remux the files? and how quick that is? I wrote an app a while ago to reencode (well remux/whatever) a file then update the nextpvr db with the new filename. if I could get a quick reliable way of doing this, hopefully that will help with the users experiencing bad seeking.

[johnsonx42]

(and looking at the date of your post, it was just my sillly feedly chrome extension saying there was a new post when there wasnt one...)

in hindsight now I realize why you thought the post was new - I used my administrative powers to add [NOT SUPPORTED] to the thread titles for the two 2011 devices being discussed, to make absolutely sure no one got the impression they were going to work. that tricked your forum reader. this is your forum though, perhaps I should have just left that to you...

can you supply the method you use to remux the files? and how quick that is? I wrote an app a while ago to reencode (well remux/whatever) a file then update the nextpvr db with the new filename. if I could get a quick reliable way of doing this, hopefully that will help with the users experiencing bad seeking.

Unfortunately it isn't all that quick, at least not for the sort of giant HD .ts files I get here (6GB per hour). mkvmerge (http://www.fosshub.com/MKVToolNix.html) instantly barfs on the .ts files produced by npvr, so I have to run them through mpeg2repair (http://www.videohelp.com/tools/MPEG2Repair) first. NPVR user SANGER_A2 wrote an AutoIT program to make mpeg2repair usable from the command line: http://www.sangera2.com/main/misc/mpeg2auto.html.
I haven't tried using mpeg2auto/mpeg2repair from an nrecord-called batch file, which would run as Local System, but I'm assuming they work that way as that's how SANGER_A2 uses them.
assuming %1 is the full path & filename of the .ts file in question, then it should be as simple as:

Code:

mpeg2auto %1 %~dpn1-fixed.ts
mkvmerge -o %~dpn1.mkv %~dpn1-fixed.ts
del %~dpn1-fixed.ts

I thought it would take a fancier command line for mkvmerge, or even a demuxing step first, but it just pulls both streams from the .ts as it goes. Easy.
If you delete the original .ts too, NPVR should auto-detect the .mkv and update the database assuming you have that option enabled in config.xml. When I did this on a 1hour hd show (6GB), the two steps took about 15 minutes... way quicker than transcoding though - handbrake took a couple of hours to transcode the same file to h.264.

[smacrae]

I can't help but think what the guys are doing at xbmc (in terms of their concept) could be applied here. From what I can tell they are using Windows MCE as backend tv server and the file streams a WTV file that on the fly is converted to a TS file...if we could take the TS file and convert it in to something the Samsung devices are happier with (on the fly) that would be ideal.

You can read about them here: http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=171216

[reven]

yeah you can do really complicated on the fly transcoding/remuxing, which is an option, but thats a lot of programming envolved and not a quick solution. its not something I could whip up in a week. you would need a lot of background knowledge of this stuff, which I dont have.

also, it has the problem of live tv, cant really use that solution with that. so samsung need to fix it, or perhaps sub could do something? (I'll ask him, but doubt he'll have the time currently).

[smacrae]

They're doing it with live tv, matter of fact it's the only backend tv server (or 1 of 2) that actually supports real time shifting within xbmc...unfortunately nextpvr doesn't when using xbmc as the client