Enhanced Web Admin

[cubsfan]

What ports on a router need to be opened up to allow the video streams to play through? Also, the streaming video does not appear to work with files that have been transcoded to XVid only with the MPEG files, would it be possible to add the ability to stream the XVid files too?

[normanr]

So basically, to watch Live TV, this is what needs to happen:
- gbpvr sends all live tv video to a file which doesn't change names when the channel is changed,

- Enhanced Web Admin has a button that launches the live tv buffer file (which should be easy since the filename doesn't change) using the same .m3u functionality as used for playing recordings,

- AND there needs to be an option to "watch" as well as "record" when clicking on the tv guide in Enhanced Web Admin, so you can change channels that way. Don't know how it would tell gbpvr to change channels though, but I'm sure there must be some way to do it...

1. mmm, this is tricky, and it might actually be easier to create a playlist that has a url that automatically picks the currently playing file. This way you could put your playlist on repeat with a single entry, and when the show finishes, it automatically gets the new file.

2. Yup, I'm not sure where's best to plug this in. Probably on the Statistics page. I'm not sure how easy it will be to detect the filename of the currently recording file.

3. Tricky eh, not sure if there's an easy way to change channels. This might involve adding some backend calls.

What ports on a router need to be opened up to allow the video streams to play through? Also, the streaming video does not appear to work with files that have been transcoded to XVid only with the MPEG files, would it be possible to add the ability to stream the XVid files too?

The same port that you use to access the web interface - it'll stream _any_ kind of file. I think what you want is the ability to stream files that are not in the database as being recorded, right? UncleJohnsBand and I may have something up our sleeves for you on this one.

[cubsfan]

The same port that you use to access the web interface - it'll stream _any_ kind of file. I think what you want is the ability to stream files that are not in the database as being recorded, right? UncleJohnsBand and I may have something up our sleeves for you on this one.

Yes and No. Yes that would be cool, but no because once the mpeg file is transcoded using the builting transcoding process I believe the filename in the database gets updated with the .avi file. So the filename in the database will have a .avi extension instead of .mpg. Also, currently I guess if you are using the default panel on the main menu of the GBPVR application Sub has it display what file is currently transcoding and the percent complete. It would be cool to have this display on the statistics page as well.

[normanr]

Yes and No. Yes that would be cool, but no because once the mpeg file is transcoded using the builting transcoding process I believe the filename in the database gets updated with the .avi file. So the filename in the database will have a .avi extension instead of .mpg. Also, currently I guess if you are using the default panel on the main menu of the GBPVR application Sub has it display what file is currently transcoding and the percent complete. It would be cool to have this display on the statistics page as well.

The 'filename' field in the database is used to pick which file to stream, so if after transcoding that points to the .avi file, then the .avi file will be streamed. I believe that the m3u file's mime type is audio/mpegurl, but I could be wrong. The mime type of the resulting download is read from the server's registry, so there's no hard coding there.

I'm not sure how to read the transcoding status, maybe sub can fill us in on that one?

[cubsfan]

Any idea on when all of the season recording options will be available in the web interface?

[sub]

I'm not sure how to read the transcoding status, maybe sub can fill us in on that one?

There is no API for picking up this info at this stage. Its just stored in the database TRANSCODE_QUEUE table.

[cubsfan]

There is no API for picking up this info at this stage. Its just stored in the database TRANSCODE_QUEUE table.

Sub we just need to look for something in that table with a status of 1? Also, it seems the percent complete goes over 100 how is that determined?

[normanr]

is there anyway to kick off a manual transcoding session? or is the best just to set the time range to always, and it'll happen as soon as the service starts?

[sub]

Sub we just need to look for something in that table with a status of 1?

Yes.

Also, it seems the percent complete goes over 100 how is that determined?

The percentage is derived by asking directshow for the duration and the current position. I have seem some occurrances of it reporting the current position is past the duration, so doing the math it ends up past 100%. I'll put in a "if progress > 100% then progress = 100%" so it does look so strange.

[sub]

is there anyway to kick off a manual transcoding session? or is the best just to set the time range to always, and it'll happen as soon as the service starts?

It runs GBPVRConvert.exe, but its probably best to just add a record to the transcode queue table.