[mythtv] Mythweb and Windows Media Player over Samba

[Torbjörn Jansson]

>> Does seeking never work? Or is it just some files that you can't
>> seek in?
> 
> I can't recall exactly, I'll check tonight.  It was definitely the
> norm, however I remember a few files that could seek, but then lost
> all sound when you did. 
> 

That sounds like the bug if fixed a few versions ago.
When seeking the audio or video output threads woud exit when they shodn't.
The audio thread was more likely to exit, so mostly the audio died.
Seeking a few times to the same position usualy fixed it.

> I've updated my mythtv to cvs since the protocol change I believe
> so I won't be able to attempt to connect to the backend.
> 

That shoud be fine.

> My backend is actually connected to my network with an 11g
> pci card.  My
> desktop is then attached to the wireless router with 100Mbps ethernet
> and was able to play off samba shares on the backend fairly well,
> but with
> some jumpyness.  Connected via the backend it was very
> smooth, however
> the interlacing was very annoying.  The laptop has built-in 11g and
> seems to have some problem connecting to the backend for some
> reason - it just
> sits there until I stop it.  Playing files from the samba
> share is very
> jumpy, worse than on the desktop. Of course the laptop has
> half of the
> bandwidth that the desktop has since the wireless network is in
> infrastruture mode.  Somehow I got it to connect to the
> backend once and
> only once and it played beautifully smooth though still with
> the interlace
> issues.  But I never got it to do it again and think that the problem
> must be with the laptop connecting to the linux machine.  When I
> connect to the samba share from windows I get an error that it isn't
> available, and then
> it shows the directory, so I think something may be setup
> wrong, but the
> mysql lookup doesn't seem to have any problems.
> 

If you can't use the network filter, then the checkbox "Always open nuv
files from mythbackend" must be unchecked and you can't use myth:// and
mythlivetv: url's, but I gues you probably already figured that out.

The next version will most likely provide a lot smother playback when using
the network filter.

>> 
>> Deinterlacing shoud be done in another filter or by the player app.
>> The DScaler project ( http://sourceforge.net/projects/deinterlace )
>> is working on creating a directshow version of their deinterlacing
>> algorithms,they're only in cvs at the moment, but I'm looking
>> forward to testing them when it's ready.
>> I haven't looked any closer at how they work, but I think they might
>> be usefull.
> 
> I looked at the DScaler project a few months ago and unfortunately
> it doesn't look like the directshow filters have been worked on for
> a couple of years in cvs.  Do you have any different information on
> it? 

You probably looked at the old filter, the one that doesn't work or atleast
not well.
I meant this one:
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/deinterlace/DScaler5/

I have setup mythbackend to use the kerneldeint filter when recording, so
when I play the nuv files they are already deinterlaced.
But I guess if you use a pvr card that's not an option.

> Thanks,
> Bob