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starmanj
Joined: 29 Aug 2008
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 Posted: Wed Sep 03, 2008 6:33 am Post subject: pytivo locks up my Tivo HD |
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| When trying to transfer an MPEG2 Transport Stream DVB file, my Tivo HD with latest software tries to start transfer and hangs on the "starting transfer" screen. I have to reboot. Isn't there a timeout function either in pytivo or in TivoHD? I'm using the latest windows build of Pytivo. |
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rdian06
Joined: 12 Apr 2008
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| Posted: Wed Sep 03, 2008 8:25 am Post subject: |
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| Add debug=true to your conf file and then run pyTivo in console mode. Then post what you see in console when the hang occurs. |
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starmanj
Joined: 29 Aug 2008
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| Posted: Wed Sep 03, 2008 9:07 am Post subject: |
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| Will do. |
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wmcbrine
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| Posted: Wed Sep 03, 2008 12:07 pm Post subject: |
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Ffmpeg recognizes transport streams as MPEG files, so they used to be passed through without reencoding. However, the TiVo can't really handle them (at least, not when they're flagged with the MIME type that pyTivo uses).
pyTivo now assumes that files with the extensions ".ts" or ".tp" are transport streams, so it flags them as needing reencoding. But files with other extensions will not be flagged. Also, I don't know whether or not this feature is in the last Windows Installer version, which is getting pretty old now.
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starmanj
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| Posted: Thu Sep 04, 2008 6:06 am Post subject: |
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I now suspect I accidentally tried to send an H.264 HD file to the tivo (.ts). I think pytivo didn't know what to do with it. Does pytivo have a check or a timeout function? Somehow it should "release" the Tivo HD from an handshake glare or do-loop...
pytivo can send .avi's with xvid/divx perfectly BTW, very nice! |
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rdian06
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BustaGriggs
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| Posted: Sun Sep 07, 2008 11:43 am Post subject: |
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| I had the same hang problem. It was pytivo.conf problem. I had the wrong path for ffmpeg listed. |
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