pyTivo Discussion Forum

wmcbrine · Joined: 04 Jan 2008 Posts: 514

You can now have your green bars... I've added support for the "Seek" parameter (and "Duration", but I don't think TiVo ever actually uses that one) to the music plugin in my repository. This is basically a simple extension of the transcoding support. I'd had in mind another way to do it, but this is simpler, and won't add the delay between tracks that I'd mentioned previously when talking about this.

To my surprise, I also haven't had the HMO music player get "stuck" -- i.e., refusing to automatically go on to the next track -- since I did this, no matter how much I skip around. Maybe I've killed two birds with one stone?

windracer · Joined: 04 Jan 2008 Posts: 160 Location: St. Pete, FL

Just downloaded the latest snapshot, but after coming out of FF/RW trickplay, it jumps to the next song (or to the beginning of the song if it's the only one in the folder). I see something like this in the log around the trickplay:

wmcbrine · Joined: 04 Jan 2008 Posts: 514

windracer · Joined: 04 Jan 2008 Posts: 160 Location: St. Pete, FL

gonzotek · Joined: 12 Jan 2008 Posts: 20

I was considering building a least an i386 Ubuntu binary for distribution alongside the deb(but in a separate package). If you get things working as they should, could you please post your build notes? I built an ffmpeg binary from source in late january, and it wasn't too bad, but I didn't keep detailed notes on the steps I took(something I am doing for the deb).

Just an additional datapoint about ffmpeg versions, before the january build, I was using the default ubuntu one, and it choked badly on an h264 codec file. The new build re-encoded the file for TiVo without issue (other than exceptionally high cpu usage compared with your normal divx file).

windracer · Joined: 04 Jan 2008 Posts: 160 Location: St. Pete, FL

Hmm ... I double-checked and I do have the liblame0 and liblame-dev packages installed. I have the libmp3lame.so library under /usr/lib.

So it looks like I do have the library and have support compiled in:

krkeegan · Posted: Sun Mar 02, 2008 9:56 am Post subject:

I don't know if it is an option, but since ubuntu was once based on debian I thought ubuntu could still use at least some deb packages.

If it can the debian-multimedia site is very helpful:

http://debian-multimedia.org/

Like I said I have no idea if it works for ubuntu.

wmcbrine · Joined: 04 Jan 2008 Posts: 514

Ubuntu's still based on Debian AFAIK (they pull from the unstable branch every six months, I think).

windracer, perhaps the version of ffmpeg you're using is too old. I've read that old versions needed "-acodec mp3", where new ones use "-acodec libmp3lame". You could try searching for "libmp3lame" (only one instance) in plugins/music/music.py and replacing it with "mp3" to confirm that. But my advice would be to just upgrade to a recent version. (I'd pull it from their SVN.)