Time to make Touch web Service less experimental

[fred250]

Relative. However I do know current position.

You should be ok then!

I’m curious too, to know if the Samsung player is tamable.

When developing for my LG TV I’ve made a super thin stupid html5 app that only redirects to a menu page on my home server. From that menu I can choose to go to any other LG APP project I’m working on. Since all coding is made in html and javascript this way there is no need to compile and all changes take effect immediately. You wouldn’t happen to have such an APP for Sumsung that I can get hold of?

/Fred

[reven]

nah, all my code is html5/js/css which is downloaded and run on the tv (designed it this way to make things faster), and then I only call the webservice api to get data/submit data.

[fred250]

nah, all my code is html5/js/css which is downloaded and run on the tv (designed it this way to make things faster), and then I only call the webservice api to get data/submit data.

Well, on the LG it's pretty much the same thing weather the single-page-html5/js-app is residing on a server or wrapped in an App-shell downloaded on to the TV.
I only use this setup for development and the main reason is because it’s a round trip via LG website to wrap, sign and encrypt the app before I can download and put it on to the TV via USB stick, and it’s an extra 15 min delay before every small change can be tested on the TV.

I’ve tried to use the LG smart TV emulator for testing but it’s next to useless because of bad performance and it won’t play recordings very well so testing this skip/seek thing is almost impossible.

With this setup I only need to restart the app on the TV (clears cache) and the new js and html will be instantly loaded. It has saved me lots of time.
Maybe it’s easier to deploy to your Samsung TV than to my LG?

/Fred

[reven]

yeah that sounds terrible for development

with samsung, you sign in as "develop" user which lets you input an IP address which you can sync user loaded apps to it. so takes about 30seconds to package up the app and get it on the tv for testing. I do often have to turn the tv on/off to force all the code is updated however.

the emulator is pretty good, video playback in the emulator is pretty bad though (OSD flashes and pretty much impossible to use while video is playing).

and dont get me started on debugging

[fred250]

yeah that sounds terrible for development

with samsung, you sign in as "develop" user which lets you input an IP address which you can sync user loaded apps to it. so takes about 30seconds to package up the app and get it on the tv for testing. I do often have to turn the tv on/off to force all the code is updated however.

the emulator is pretty good, video playback in the emulator is pretty bad though (OSD flashes and pretty much impossible to use while video is playing).

and dont get me started on debugging

Seems a lot easier to deploy to a Samsung. Will the app you deployed for test be available on the TV "standalone" or are you required to stay logged on to the Samsung site to run it?

There may be some other simpler way of deploying to the LG TV now, haven’t bothered to check it out for a while.

/Fred

[reven]

when they log in as "develop" it doesnt actually log in anywhere, just how you tell the tv to get into the extra menus.

ive finally been approved as a "Partner" for samsung, so I can submit my app to be added to the samsung app store. my goal is to distribute it via that (too much work/hard to maintain deploying it via the current method).

[fred250]

@reven

I have PM'd you with details on the timing.info aware streamer for you to try with your samsung TV

/fred

[reven]

hi fred, I think I've got it setup right, but seeking hasnt changed. I'm guessing my sample ts files dont have the required timing.info files (they were downloaded from dropbox/mega.co.nz, which probably caused those parts to be lost, ntfs and all).

I used mvallevand's writetime app to create [video].ts.Timing.Info for each sample file, but still skipping hasnt changed. logs dont show much.

Code:

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

Try seek to position =24957060000

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

Try seek to position =24957060000

Successfully set: seek position =56860000

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

Try seek to position =56860000

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

Try seek to position =56860000

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

Try seek to position =56860000

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

Try seek to position =56860000

?read still shows

Code:

Read: seek position =26848860000

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?

[reven]

the tsstreamer is returning the correct duration for the recordings now however. one recording using nextpvr stream?f= option returned around 10mins and the correct duration is closer to 30mins.

[mvallevand]

I used mvallevand's writetime app to create [video].ts.Timing.Info for each sample file, but still skipping hasnt changed. logs dont show much.

In an earlier post I read external Timing.Info wasn't working, did you add it as an ADS?

Martin