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Answers and the development of pyTivo a TiVo transcoding server
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Kementari
Joined: 29 Feb 2008
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 Posted: Fri Feb 29, 2008 1:39 pm Post subject: Problem playing shows with subtitles. |
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First, let me say what an excellent program you have created. The setup was easy, and it is far better than using the annoying tivo desktop.
My only problem has to do with playing back videos with subtitles. My videos are 640x480 and I am trying to play them on a 4:3 tv. For some reason, these videos appear to have part of the top, bottom, and sides cut off. The result is that the subtitles are cut through the middle, and the beginning and end of sentences are often not displayed.
If there is a place I can manually adjust this, please give me a reply. I tried reading through the other posts, but I was never able to find exactly what I was searching for (or I did and couldn't understand it).
Thanks again,
Kem |
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Iluvatar
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| Posted: Fri Feb 29, 2008 3:51 pm Post subject: |
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i have had this issue as well. I almost exclusively use pyTivo for anime on my 4:3 crt television and subtitles always get cut off. This piece of code in transcode.py fixes my problem completely and only affects 4:3 content.
Replace line 133 that currently has the code:
return ['-aspect', '4:3', '-s', str(TIVO_WIDTH) + 'x' + str(TIVO_HEIGHT)]
and replace it with this line,
return ['-aspect', '4:3', '-s', str(TIVO_WIDTH - 40) + 'x' + str(TIVO_HEIGHT - 40), '-padtop', '20', '-padbottom', '20', '-padleft', '20', '-padright', '20']
I do wish this code could be implemented into pyTivo if only so I didnt have to put it in everytime I upgrade  however, im sure this problem effects many more users who have 4:3 tvs and try to watch subtitled 4:3 content.
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krkeegan
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| Posted: Fri Feb 29, 2008 5:31 pm Post subject: |
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| You could add those parameters to your ffmpeg_prams settings in the conf file. But it sounds like you only want this to want this to affect your 4:3 content? |
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Iluvatar
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| Posted: Fri Feb 29, 2008 5:48 pm Post subject: |
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| krkeegan wrote: | You could add those parameters to your ffmpeg_prams settings in the conf file. But it sounds like you only want this to want this to affect your 4:3 content? |
Yes, thats true for me at least as 16:9 content works perfectly fine (albeit letterboxed) |
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wmcbrine
Joined: 04 Jan 2008
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| Posted: Fri Feb 29, 2008 6:38 pm Post subject: Re: Problem playing shows with subtitles. |
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| Kementari wrote: | For some reason, these videos appear to have part of the top, bottom, and sides cut off. |
What you're seeing is called "overscan". You can read more about it here.
And I quite agree -- far from being a "unique" problem, this is something that needs to be dealt with in mainstream pyTivo.
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Kementari
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| Posted: Fri Feb 29, 2008 7:08 pm Post subject: |
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| Iluvatar wrote: | i have had this issue as well. I almost exclusively use pyTivo for anime on my 4:3 crt television and subtitles always get cut off. This piece of code in transcode.py fixes my problem completely and only affects 4:3 content.
Replace line 133 that currently has the code:
return ['-aspect', '4:3', '-s', str(TIVO_WIDTH) + 'x' + str(TIVO_HEIGHT)]
and replace it with this line,
return ['-aspect', '4:3', '-s', str(TIVO_WIDTH - 40) + 'x' + str(TIVO_HEIGHT - 40), '-padtop', '20', '-padbottom', '20', '-padleft', '20', '-padright', '20']
I do wish this code could be implemented into pyTivo if only so I didnt have to put it in everytime I upgrade however, im sure this problem effects many more users who have 4:3 tvs and try to watch subtitled 4:3 content.
Iluvatar |
Apparently my line 133 isn't the same as yours. In my transcode.py, line 133 is
endHeight = int(((TIVO_WIDTH*height)/width) * multiplier4by3)
Searching for something similar to what you replaced, I did find this:
return ['-aspect', '4:3', '-s', str(TIVO_WIDTH) + 'x480']
Is this the line I would replace? A very noob question, but would I just delete the old line and copy/paste in the code you are suggesting, save the file, and restart the service?
Another question... perhaps related/perhaps not... I am finding that if I restart the service, my shares often disappear from the NPL. I have been able to make them reappear, so I have just reinstalled. When I do this, it works. If I change something, though, it will disappear again. Also, there have been a few times where when I have it up and browse a folder, it shows me the contents of a completely different folder. Every folder I view will have the contents of that wrong folder.
I know I am asking a ton of questions. I am very new to the community. On one tv I am running a PC with MCE, but I have this tivo and I would love to use it in the bedroom with my shares.
Thanks again to all of you in the community who respond.
-Kem |
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Kementari
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| Posted: Fri Feb 29, 2008 7:27 pm Post subject: |
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| Replacing the line I found with what you posted didn't do the trick, so I will guess I found the wrong thing. I will eagerly await any more help you guys can give. |
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Iluvatar
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| Posted: Fri Feb 29, 2008 9:40 pm Post subject: |
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| Kementari wrote: | Replacing the line I found with what you posted didn't do the trick, so I will guess I found the wrong thing. I will eagerly await any more help you guys can give. |
It has been about a month since I have upgraded so it is very likely that that particular line has moved around with new additions.
Do a search for a debug_write command that contains the string "select_aspect: File is within 4:3 list.\n" and the return line to replace is right after that. The following is the entire 4:3 section out of my transcode.py
Also remember that you must restart pyTivo for the changes to take effect.
| Code: | elif (rwidth, rheight) in [(4, 3), (10, 11), (15, 11), (59, 54), (59, 72), (59, 36), (59, 54)]:
debug_write(['select_aspect: File is within 4:3 list.\n'])
#New: Decrease cropping so entire subtitles show properly.
return ['-aspect', '4:3', '-s', str(TIVO_WIDTH - 40) + 'x' + str(TIVO_HEIGHT - 40), '-padtop', '20', '-padbottom', '20', '-padleft', '20', '-padright', '20']
#Old
#return ['-aspect', '4:3', '-s', str(TIVO_WIDTH) + 'x' + str(TIVO_HEIGHT)] |
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epsilondelta
Joined: 05 Jan 2008
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Location: Bloomington, Indiana
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| Posted: Sat Mar 01, 2008 3:44 am Post subject: |
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Kem,
Apologies if you are doing this, but be sure to maintain the indentation as in the code above...and I'm pretty sure all the blocks starting with "elif" should be indented the same as in the original.
(I don't mean to come off as if I know any Python -- far, far from it -- it's just that the importance of indentation preservation is often mentioned in other threads involving editing .py files.  )
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