2011-02-16, 21:15
Right, just for anyone who's interested, or perhaps someone's got some ideas that could make things even better.
I was using ffmpeg with mediaportal under xbmc for both the server machine and the client. I've now switched the server to use tsreader and it plays perfectly. The client machine won't work using tsreader (I'm sure this has been covered before, but it's a fairly long thread, so don't shoot me if it has). Using ffmpeg, the files seems to be streamed from the server whether or not the streaming setting is checked under the pvr client settings. This is what seems to be causing me the problems.
Now the interesting this is that if I add the recorded tv folder to the videos sources, the recorded tv files play perfectly on the client machine as well. In the short term this obviously helps with the issue, and I'm sure this is something that they're working on. The only thing I was interested to know was whether the ffmpeg would work better if ffdshow was installed, or whether I'm barking up the wrong tree.
Sorry to go on about this, but it may help someone else.
I was using ffmpeg with mediaportal under xbmc for both the server machine and the client. I've now switched the server to use tsreader and it plays perfectly. The client machine won't work using tsreader (I'm sure this has been covered before, but it's a fairly long thread, so don't shoot me if it has). Using ffmpeg, the files seems to be streamed from the server whether or not the streaming setting is checked under the pvr client settings. This is what seems to be causing me the problems.
Now the interesting this is that if I add the recorded tv folder to the videos sources, the recorded tv files play perfectly on the client machine as well. In the short term this obviously helps with the issue, and I'm sure this is something that they're working on. The only thing I was interested to know was whether the ffmpeg would work better if ffdshow was installed, or whether I'm barking up the wrong tree.
Sorry to go on about this, but it may help someone else.