<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On 5/12/2009, at 9:08 PM, Stephen Worthington wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Fri, 04 Dec 2009 21:05:40 +1300, you wrote:<br><br><blockquote type="cite">On Wed, 02 Dec 2009 20:46:29 +1300, you wrote:<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">I too am interested, could you post an update showing how you <br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">(hopefully) achieved it?<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Changing the MythTV box to use its external IP address worked fine. I<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">just changed the fields in the MythTV Backend Setup to the correct IP<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">address, and for good measure also made the Frontend use the same<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">external IP address for accessing the MySQL database. It all worked<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">without any problems, unlike the last time I tried it with Ubuntu 8.04<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">and MythTV 0.21. So maybe something there has been fixed in 0.22 so<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">it all just works. upnp-inspector now says the MythTV box is a UPnP<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">server. But the Sony TV does not yet see it as a server, although it<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">does see my Vista WMP UPnP server and so far I have been able to get<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">it to display some stored photos from there. I have to experiment<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">more with it all, but Mum wants to use her TV now, so it will have to<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">wait for tomorrow.<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">I was unable to get the Sony KDL-32V5500 TV to see the MythTV UPnP<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">server, so after some googling I tried minidlna:<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/minidlna/">http://sourceforge.net/projects/minidlna/</a><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">With that, I can get the TV to play the MPEG2 recordings from the<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">PVR-500 card (Sky programs), but the H.264 FreeviewHD programs do not<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">work so far. And of course, the raw filenames that minidlna serves up<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">are pretty useless for working out which program is which, so ideally<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">once I get minidlna working, I would want to port that code to the<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">MythTV UPnP server.<br></blockquote><br>OK, I have now got a little further with this. I used an SQL UPDATE<br>to change the data in the minidlna database to something suggested by<br>the author, and that made the Sony TV see the FreeviewHD files. But<br>unfortunately it will not play them. To confirm that, I put a small<br>Prime SD recording on a USB stick and plugged that into the Sony TV<br>and it would still not play the file. So now I need to find out what<br>format H.264 files it will play, and see if it is just a case of<br>changing the container format, or something more difficult that would<br>need full transcoding.<br></div></blockquote></div><div><br></div><div>I've done a bit of testing with the Sony's and neither the Series 2 or Series 3 Bravias will currently play our broadcast H.264 streams, or pretty much any H.264 streams, off USB or other media which is a real shame.</div><div><br></div><div>I'd be interested to hear if anyone has made things work.</div><div><br></div><div>Steve</div><br><div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div>Steven Ellis - Technical Director<br>OpenMedia Limited<br>email - <a href="mailto:steven@openmedia.co.nz">steven@openmedia.co.nz</a><br>website - <a href="http://www.openmedia.co.nz/">http://www.openmedia.co.nz</a><br></div></span>
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