[mythtv-users] HDHR + Over the Air + Sony Network Media Player + Buffalo NAS

[Jeremy Jones]

On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 9:54 PM, Jeff Tucker <jefftucker at gmail.com> wrote:

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> I have a different Sony Blu Ray Disc player and I also read that ticket
> when I was setting mine up.  It was over my head and I didn't know where to
> begin, but I also found out that my particular Blu-Ray Player would only
> play SD content over the network.  In fact it needed to be a MPEG-2 TS with
> 480p to work smoothly.  Since This was acceptable to me I just started
> transcoding everything to that format, running mythlink to 'pretty' the
> names (and folders) and serving the 'links' folder up to the Sony via
> miniDLNA.  ****
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> If you figure something out though that will help with that ticket and get
> the player 'seeing' myth directly, then please post back. I am interested
> and I have seen at least one other post on the subject recently too. ****
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> Jeremy,****
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> Sounds like you and I have a similar setup. I have been noticing that
> minidlna doesn't seem to be updating quick enough, or not at all, to
> display newer folders/videos on the media player.****
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I remember having the same concerns/issues.  I finally got it working with
some tweaking of different things.  I can't remember what all I did, but
I'll look tonight and post back.


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> Scenario:****
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> So basically I recorded a TV episode and once it completed its recording I
> ran mythlink.pl to create the organized/readable links. MiniDLNA is
> running so I assumed that it would have updated itself with the newest
> folders/videos.****
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Yes, you can set up a user job to run mythlink for that recording only.  I
also have a cron job setup to run mythlink nightly, so that I can clean up
the links to deleted recordings.


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> I assumed that the notify_interval basically configured the server to
> notify the media player of any changes. It was 900 seconds but I set to 60
> seconds to see if it would update.
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I think that is right.  I remember playing with that setting too. I'll pull
up my conf file and post it tonight.

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> The only way I got it to update was to restart my MythBuntu machine.****
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> What am I missing here?****
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> Are you using the User Jobs to transcode and link the videos? I have some
> sudo calls to mythlink.pl and the removecommercial.sh in User Job 1 and 2
> but they both fail. I can run the mythlink.pl script from command line
> without issues. What is the trick for these to work?****
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I have replaced mythtranscode with my own script based on the transcode
wrapper stub. (Search the wiki).  That way I can have myth transcode then
recording first and then run the built-in commercial flagging after
transcoding.  Then I have a user job that runs mythlink. (I think).  To be
honest I have such a back log of recordings now that it has become
unimportant if it shows up right away.  I may actually be getting them on
the Sony the day after recording. (via the cron job I mentioned above).
 Again, I'll look tonight.  I know I had a user job set up to do that, but
I don't think I have been checking the box to run it.

The cron job is necessary though, otherwise you will end up with a bunch of
links to files that don't exist.

Jeremy
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