New LG and Samsung NextPVR Web Smart TV App available for beta testing.

[mvallevand]

Just play the remuxed Default from Video and keep the filename alphanumeric.

Martin

[BrainStormer]

Just play the remuxed Default from Video and keep the filename alphanumeric.

Martin

Just did it with Bones since it has only one word. and it worked!

[cncb]

I see no simple solution to the in-progress recordings problem on F-models.
I think the only way is to tweak the streamer but that's subs department.
I will do some streaming related testing for BrainStormer and while at it I'll have a look at this problem too.

The link to the MB3 app got broken so I removed it.

What exactly does the "streaming" option in the settings do and does it have any effect on this problem?

I was able to get the MB3 app via your AppLoader. Thanks.

Regarding audio, I am able to get DD output when I explicitly set the Digital Audio output in the Samsung Sound settings to Dolby Digital. However, this seems to keep getting reset to PCM maybe due to using the MB3 app which seems to support both DD and DTS output. I'm not sure if they switch this on the fly but I'm wondering if there is a way such that I don't have to keep setting this manually in the NPVR app.

[BrainStormer]

Just added Postprocessing.bat:

Code:

"C:\Program Files (x86)\NPVR\ffmpeg" -i %1 -acodec copy -vcodec copy "%~dpn1-1.ts"
if not exist "%~dpn1-1.ts" goto skipdelete
del %1
move "%~dpn1-1.ts" "%~dpn1.ts"
:skipdelete

So all future recodings will work on my Samsung 2014

copied update.bat to my recordings directory and ran to correct all past recordings:

Code:

forfiles /S /M *.ts /C "cmd /c C:\Users\Public\NPVR\Scripts\postprocessing.bat @path"

[fred250]

I just checked the file and I set it might be tagged Encrypted at the start, and Samsung likely respects DRM in files I do remember reading about that. Brainstormer how does it play simply remuxed with ffmpeg

Martin

Interesting Martin.
I'm curious to know if it is the removal of the encrypted-tag or the remux itself that made the file playable.

I know just about nothing about these files and isn't familiar with any tools.
Do you think it would be possible to get a peace of the test file that doesn't have this encrypted tag without remuxing?

Would it be possible (I mean easily) to add this encrypted-tag to a file that otherwise plays fine?

/Fred

[fred250]

Just added Postprocessing.bat:

Code:

"C:\Program Files (x86)\NPVR\ffmpeg" -i %1 -acodec copy -vcodec copy "%~dpn1-1.ts"
if not exist "%~dpn1-1.ts" goto skipdelete
del %1
move "%~dpn1-1.ts" "%~dpn1.ts"
:skipdelete

So all future recodings will work on my Samsung 2014

copied update.bat to my recordings directory and ran to correct all past recordings:

Code:

forfiles /S /M *.ts /C "cmd /c C:\Users\Public\NPVR\Scripts\postprocessing.bat @path"

Great that you've found a work around!

But I'm still curious to know whats going on.
I'm hoping for Martin or someone else to give me directions on how to produce test files that can be used to determine the actual cause.

/Fred

[fred250]

What exactly does the "streaming" option in the settings do and does it have any effect on this problem?

Lots of problems, experimenting and testing in the early days of my app led to that I needed a way to swiftly change streamer without deploying a new program all the time.
/stream and /live are NextPVR native streamers. I don't know in detail how they differ but I need to use /stream because /live can not play arbitrary video files by filename only recordings.
555 and Special are experimental and to no use for anybody but me.

Regarding audio, I am able to get DD output when I explicitly set the Digital Audio output in the Samsung Sound settings to Dolby Digital. However, this seems to keep getting reset to PCM maybe due to using the MB3 app which seems to support both DD and DTS output. I'm not sure if they switch this on the fly but I'm wondering if there is a way such that I don't have to keep setting this manually in the NPVR app.

Currently audio and also other things like aspect ratio and subtitles are overlooked/ignored in my app.
My goal is to keep the app as universal as possible and not dig too deep into device specific APIs.
But over time as more people request the same features I guess they will eventually be added.

/Fred

[mvallevand]

I'm hoping for Martin or someone else to give me directions on how to produce test files that can be used to determine the actual cause

I noticed Brainstormer's file had the Conditional Access information in the PMT. No idea of that means anything.

Martin

[BrainStormer]

I noticed Brainstormer's file had the Conditional Access information in the PMT. No idea of that means anything.

Martin

Perhaps sub could have NPVR Leave that part out. Then live streaming would also work.

[fred250]

Perhaps sub could have NPVR Leave that part out. Then live streaming would also work.

I guess that wouldn’t be possible, not in the streamer, unless a remux is done on-the-fly.
The streamer just passes on chunks of the file not able to deal with its contents.

When you successfully play a file, that wouldn’t play in my app, over UPnP do you know if it gets transcoded in any way or just streamed as is?

When I tried to play your test file on the Samsung over DLNA/UPnP using WMP as the streamer it wouldn’t play.

/Fred