[mythtvnz] Anyone else using a HDHomerun/Mythtv/XBMC combo?

[Nick Rout]

On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 11:21 AM, Mark de Reeper
<mark.dereeper at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 8:43 AM, Ross and Jemima Knudsen
> <ross.jemima at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> 2010/1/11 Mark de Reeper <mark.dereeper at gmail.com>:
>> > Thanks for all the feedback, not made a lot of progress today but did
>> > try
>> > the 2 different remuxing suggestions with not great results:
>> >
>> > The mencoder command failed saying I was not able to specify copy for
>> > both
>> > flags, it suggested I use pcm and I needed to add the -o flag to specify
>> > which file was the output. It did complete with these changes but did
>> > not
>> > produce a playable file:
>> > mencoder -oac pcm -ovc copy 1001_20100107202800.mpg -o
>> > new-1001_20100107202800.mpg
>> >
>> > The cvlc command worked but the resulting file had no audio stream, VLC
>> > reported only having the video stream when I played it back.
>> >
>> > I am going to work through some of the other suggestions but will be
>> > heading
>> > away for a break with the family soon so will need to pick this up again
>> > in
>> > a couple of weeks. Keep the ideas coming. It is times like this that I
>> > think
>> > I would be better off just getting getting a Tivo (I already have a
>> > hacked
>> > Series 1 which works remarkably well but just not HD) and be done with
>> > it.
>>
>> I take it you are using the myth:// protocol to access recordings made
>> by the myth backend?  Have you tried moving a recording to a location
>> where XBMC can access directly (ie a directory) and see if it can play
>> the file back?  That way you isolate the myth backend as a potential
>> problem.
>>
> Yes using built-in support for the myth:// protocol access. I also make use
> of mythbox which has a nice feature where if you tell it where the
> recordings are stored it will access the file directly. Have also set-up
> direct access within XBMC, all three give slightly different results. After
> my investigations yesterday I think that it is more likely to be something
> up with XBMC but l still need to do more investigations. If the files
> weren't so big I would be happy to make them available for others to play
> with.
>
> How much of an influence does signal quality have on all of this? I can
> probably improve my aerial position to get a better signal, I do see the
> occasional artifacts on some recordings.

Quite an influence I think.