Progress update:
I definately do not get sound for DVR-MS but get great quality video. Advance controls are a little unpredictable. I have tried various codecs on the PC end and hasn't changed anything.
For those that do not need or care about FF/RW, I did try Tversity for the Upnp server. It can transcode video files. I set it to transcode everything and can get the DVR-MS files to play with sound in-synch. There is a little casheing time on the front end but is acceptable. I have not watched a full show to see if it can play a full show with out re-cacheing. The only problem I have is that FF/RW do not work but the skip does. If you hit it too many times it will freeze though so it may not work for commercials.
You have to load the latest FFDshow filters and the Ty-Show filters but it does work. For me though I will continue to convert since I am a commercial skip junkie until the Mplayer folks get the bugs worked out. It is great that the XBMC is this far along and does support the UPnP stuff which I was addicted to before I moded an XBOX.
Hi Robo983
Bit of a stupid question, Where do I find the latest FFDshow filters and the Ty-Show filters?
I guess you install them in the same location as the MPLAYER files?
Thanks!
If you do a google search you should be able to get them. I got my Tyshow at source orge.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/tyshow/
and the FFDSHOW at:
http://www.free-codecs.com/download/FFDShow.htm
It might have been missleading but these filter/codecs reside on your PC. I downloaded the executable for TyShow not the rar file. You know it applies them by doing a graphedit on the DVR-MS file. If you do not have graphedit I believe it is a free download from microsoft. It will show the FFDshow for the audio and MPEG2 something for the video. You just have to drag and drop them onto the graphedit window then it graphs it for you to show what codecs are being used. This is only nescessary if you plan to transcode with Tversity. If you do not have a dual core it will probably give you choppy video. Tversity is free for now and is great software. I used it when I had a DSM320. It would not FF/RW even the mpeg files and is why I moded an XBOX. XBMC now supports UPnP so I am back to trying to make Tversity work with it because I like the predefined online content you get with it. I haven't got the online content (TV, Radio,etc) working yet though.
@
Robo983 , I think RalphUp thought that you updated the codecs in XBMC.
@
RalphUp, Robo983 did not update any codecs in XBMC, you as an end-user can not update codecs in XBMC.
Correct that states it more clearly than I did...only if you want to transcode using Tversity
Thanks guys, I didnt think I could!
Im using a standard Win XP 2005 Media Centre Edition to record my TV.
DVR-MS support is very good now, I only get problems when rewinding (at any speed) and fast forward at more than 8x speed. I've also noticed audio tends to go out of sync quite a bit, but fast forwarding then pressing 'play' fixes it until the next time.
Another thing: has anyone figured out how to show the embedded closed captions on XBMC? If you press mute in MEdia Center it works, but of course.
I tried using the extractCloseCaptions from this page
http://blogs.msdn.com/toub/archive/2005/...70491.aspx
and get out put like this:
Quote:Start Display Clear Text Type Channel
00:00.0 00:02.4 00:02.4 ( ) PopOn 0
00:02.4 00:03.7 00:03.7 ( ) PopOn 0
00:03.7 00:18.1 00:18.1 ( ) PopOn 0
00:18.2 00:23.2 00:25.6 Annouer: FREAIF BARBADOS... PopOn 0
00:23.2 00:29.2 00:44.3 SPSORED BY: PopOn 0
00:29.2 00:47.0 00:47.0 >> FEATURING FITNESS EXPERT RollUp 0
00:47.2 00:50.9 00:50.9 ( ) RollUp 0
00:50.9 00:53.3 00:53.3 ( ) PopOn 0
00:53.4 01:00.6 01:00.6 ">> Slly: HELLO, I'M SHELLY" RollUp 0
01:00.8 01:01.3 01:01.3 McDONALD. RollUp 0
01:01.5 01:02.9 01:02.9 WELCOME TO BEAUTIFUL BARBAS. RollUp 0
01:03.1 01:04.6 01:04.6 WE'RE OUT TO DO A MUSCLE RollUp 0
01:04.8 01:06.0 01:06.0 CONDIONING WORKOUT AT A USE RollUp 0
01:06.2 01:08.2 01:08.2 CALLED ILLUSION ON A PMIER RollUp 0
but can't get it to convert to .ssa or .srt. Stephen Toub said it basically needs another app:
Quote:ExtractCloseCaptions is just a sample wrapper around my underlying sample library for extracting close captions from NTSC DVR-MS files. If you look at the library, it gives you back a .NET collection of the captions, and ExtractCloseCaptions just iterates through them and writes them to the console. You can write your own app to iterate through them and do whatever you want with them, including writing them to whatever format you desire.
anywonder Wrote:DVR-MS support is very good now
Based on which version of XBMC?
2.0....well maybe pretty good is a better description
It at least plays it
Is it just me, or does XBMC crash for anyone else when you play a dvr-ms file while the Media Center PC is recording live tv (simultaneously)
I do not use MCE but have never had a problem with crashs on XBMC. Are you trying to play the file that is currently recording? I have never tried that but I still do not get sound on my DVR-MS files recorded with Meedio and haven't had a problem playing a file while Meedio is recording some other program.
Hm, seems to be working now. I don't know why it crashed but it's definitely unpredicatable (usually crashes if I try to "resume video" too)...a/v sync issues maybe this can help?
http://lists.mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/mpla...46423.html Too bad it came out after XBMC 2.0 was released
but what can I say it's free and overall I'm very pleased
forgot to add (since we can't seem to edit posts here), sync problems could be b/c of this but I don't really understand what he's saying..
"
BTW - the file pts value in an ASF file is supposed to be the same for
every segment of the frame but for a dvr-ms file it seems to increase
by 1ms for each segment. Then the pts jumps by a small amount for the
first segment of the next frame - just enough to keep the value near
what it would be if the values were evenly spaced - but never
accurately enough for playback. I've no idea why it does this but
knowing the reason might help. The current code uses the pts in the
first segment of the frame but it could just as well use the last - or
the mid-point. None of these choices seem to be useful for smooth
playback however.
* Previous message: [MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH]Ad
"
(again sorry for the triple post but I don't see an edit button)
seems that enabling (checking) "no cache" in the OSD fixes my sync issues. Does anyone know if there's a way to enable this permanently, since I mainly watch dvr-ms files on xbmc?
start a movie, check the no cache option, select set for all video files option in osd.