Time to make Touch web Service less experimental

[fred250]

Yes, Martin is right!
There is no timing.info available in your files And external timing.info is not yet implemented.
I may have time to look into that this weekend.

In the log you would see something like “found timing.info”

/Fred

[fred250]

even after the player has done the jump, is this suppose to be reset to 0 after the jump to indicate the jump was successful?

Yes, it will be set to 0 when used. But since no timing.info is found it skips that part of the code were it's set to 0.

I'm also planning of implementing a GUID and a timeout to allow for more than one client seeking at a time.
As you noticed the seek property is global and not tied to a specific http session (in order to be easily read from outside the client, and more)

/Fred

[stustunz]

Yes, Martin is right!
There is no timing.info available in your files And external timing.info is not yet implemented.
I may have time to look into that this weekend.

In the log you would see something like “found timing.info”

/Fred

Is there a way I can upload a recording with the timing info ?

[fred250]

Is there a way I can upload a recording with the timing info ?

I have no idéa about the file upload, but I just handed over to reven a patched version of the streamer that can read external timing.info as generated by Martins tool.

/Fred

[mvallevand]

Is there a way I can upload a recording with the timing info ?

Better to extract it with the command line and send it as a separate file.

Martin

[reven]

How do I add the timing.info to the file?

[sub]

notepad "c:\path\to\video.ts:timing.info"

Paste the timing.info in, then save it. It'll only work on ntfs drives though.

[reven]

thanks sub.

I know have the timing.info file as part of the file, however, when I go to skip now, the player just freezes and then after about 30 seconds it stops. my tsstreamer log is

Code:

About to stream file: D:\Videos\2.ts

About to stream file: D:\Videos\2.ts

About to stream file: D:\Videos\2.ts

About to stream file: D:\Videos\2.ts

Successfully set: seek position =248860000

About to stream file: D:\Videos\2.ts

Try seek to position =248860000

External Timing.Info found

Reading Timing.Info

Seek to byte 885602576 requested byte was 0

About to stream file: D:\Videos\2.ts

Not sure why it keeps printing "About to stream file: ...".

Can I grab a copy of the source for this, so I can step through it and see what the problem is? or do you want to keep it closed source (which is fine, I can understand that). Just might speed things up. cheers.

note: I also updated the tsstreamer to the new one you sent me

[fred250]

Seek to byte 885602576 requested byte was 0

Part of your problems right now might be that the seek-to value is set (~70 mins in if I did the calculation right) and used at the very first call when the player wants start from the beginning.
There is not much error correction and such in the streamer at this moment.

Not sure why it keeps printing "About to stream file: ...".

Every "About to stream file..." corresponds to a new range request from the player.
I know my LG player makes an extra initial 500 byte range request before it asks for the whole file. Maybe to evaluate connection speed or byte range capability, I don't really know.

Some of those requests may be the player trying to find the user requested time but since the bytes returned is way off what was requested (the issue described above) it tries again and again and eventually gives up.
If seek position is really set to 0 when you first start playing there shouldn’t be that many “About to stream...”.

Can I grab a copy of the source for this, so I can step through it and see what the problem is? or do you want to keep it closed source (which is fine, I can understand that). Just might speed things up. cheers.

Sure, I hand it over to you.

note: I also updated the tsstreamer to the new one you sent me

Yes, that shows in the log. It also states it uses the external Timing.Info. If external Timing.Info exists it will use that before looking for the ADS. (which makes it easy to switch between internal and external by just renaming the external file).

/Fred

[reven]

well i had a very foolish error, my milliseconds were getting converted to a string at some point, so when i was adding currentmilliseconds + jump it was concating which was making it jump to the very end of the file.

once I fixed that, currently I can jump correctly for the most part, but the first jump is always wrong (goes to the first jump as the default npvr streamer, one file is 2mins another is 4:30). also i cant jump past the point the npvr streamer reported was the duration to the samsung player.

Going to look into those 2 issues, but this is looking very promising, the other jumps are pretty accurate, within a second or two (sometimes spot on).

If we can get this to work, I'm hoping sub can implement this directly into nextpvr, so no other app/port is required for streaming, perhaps a different url however eg ?tsstream=

great work fred