[dev] CetonTV+HDHomeRun - Watch TV on XBMC (WIN/OSX)

uspino Wrote:OK, this is starting to be ridiculously convenient. Actually GoodPlayer is *almost* able to play the HD direct stream from remoteCeton. Can you imagine how is it going to look on the retina-display, quad-core iPad 3?

EDIT: One more idea. In conjuction with a UPNP/DLNA server like Serviio, I'm getting the remoteCeton direct stream on my DLNA TV!

Just tried it on Buzz Player (iPad 1!) and works great! at 720, 1000kbps.
I wonder what else we can get this running on

Edit: Maybe PS3 with UPnP??

Now I have noticed something that may require some attention in the future. Whenever playing in xbmc you will notice horizontal lines during action scenes (the screen shot on the first post highlights the issue). This is caused by the video stream being interlaced. In plugin versions prior to v1.6.3 the dvd player in xbmc handled all processing of the video (i havent upgraded to v1.6.3 so I can not speak as to whether the issue still exists now that the stream is h264..), maybe some flag must be thrown to deinterlace the incoming video stream on the client pc? When I view the stream in vlc (on client pc) and turn on deinterlacing, the picture quality vastly improves.

1.6.3's new transcoding works fantastic on my apple tv 2! I can now watch HD channels with smooth playback! (I use 720 output and low quality)

While we're talking about apple tv 2, any thoughts on where getting to handling apple tv 2 commands is on the priority list? e.g. I'd like to be able to hit the menu button and have it function the same way as if I hit ESC on my xbmc client PC. The only way for me to stop a stream is to completely reset the apple tv 2 which is getting quite frustrating

europorsche914 Wrote:Now I have noticed something that may require some attention in the future. Whenever playing in xbmc you will notice horizontal lines during action scenes (the screen shot on the first post highlights the issue). This is caused by the video stream being interlaced. In plugin versions prior to v1.6.3 the dvd player in xbmc handled all processing of the video (i havent upgraded to v1.6.3 so I can not speak as to whether the issue still exists now that the stream is h264..), maybe some flag must be thrown to deinterlace the incoming video stream on the client pc? When I view the stream in vlc (on client pc) and turn on deinterlacing, the picture quality vastly improves.

I'll take a look. Deinterlacing doesnt look like it takes much cpu, so maybe I might just do it in vlc?
There is a way to change the setting in XBMC. have to find out if theres a way to do it in from the plugin...

LehighBri Wrote:1.6.3's new transcoding works fantastic on my apple tv 2! I can now watch HD channels with smooth playback! (I use 720 output and low quality)

While we're talking about apple tv 2, any thoughts on where getting to handling apple tv 2 commands is on the priority list? e.g. I'd like to be able to hit the menu button and have it function the same way as if I hit ESC on my xbmc client PC. The only way for me to stop a stream is to completely reset the apple tv 2 which is getting quite frustrating

If you have time now, we can do that now. I might need your help in getting some logs.

Give me a few minutes and I'll tell you what to look for.

EDIT: Ok can you spam the button a few times for each button (Remember the order that you pressed those buttons ) that you want implemented and then send me a copy of the log.
The buttons ids get outputted to the log: self.log('onAction ' + str(action))

From the wiki: http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=Glo...ple_Remote
It looks like menu is 6 on apple tv... but 6 is also page down on the pc?

EDIT2: Let me know how this works for you: http://www.mediafire.com/?wbl7b9i1d291mcz

mcheng89 Wrote:Just tried it on Buzz Player (iPad 1!) and works great! at 720, 1000kbps.
I wonder what else we can get this running on

Edit: Maybe PS3 with UPnP??

You can use any DLNA device: it works fine on PS3, Samsung TV, WDTV Live...

Quote:Now I have noticed something that may require some attention in the future. Whenever playing in xbmc you will notice horizontal lines during action scenes (the screen shot on the first post highlights the issue). This is caused by the video stream being interlaced. In plugin versions prior to v1.6.3 the dvd player in xbmc handled all processing of the video (i havent upgraded to v1.6.3 so I can not speak as to whether the issue still exists now that the stream is h264..), maybe some flag must be thrown to deinterlace the incoming video stream on the client pc? When I view the stream in vlc (on client pc) and turn on deinterlacing, the picture quality vastly improves.

You are absolutely right here.

mcheng89 Wrote:I'll take a look. Deinterlacing doesnt look like it takes much cpu, so maybe I might just do it in vlc?
There is a way to change the setting in XBMC. have to find out if theres a way to do it in from the plugin...



If you have time now, we can do that now. I might need your help in getting some logs.

Give me a few minutes and I'll tell you what to look for.

EDIT: Ok can you spam the button a few times for each button (Remember the order that you pressed those buttons ) that you want implemented and then send me a copy of the log.
The buttons ids get outputted to the log: self.log('onAction ' + str(action))

From the wiki: http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=Glo...ple_Remote
It looks like menu is 6 on apple tv... but 6 is also page down on the pc?

EDIT2: Let me know how this works for you: http://www.mediafire.com/?wbl7b9i1d291mcz

Sure... I'll test this shortly.

mcheng89 Wrote:EDIT: Ok can you spam the button a few times for each button (Remember the order that you pressed those buttons ) that you want implemented and then send me a copy of the log.
The buttons ids get outputted to the log: self.log('onAction ' + str(action))

From the wiki: http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=Glo...ple_Remote
It looks like menu is 6 on apple tv... but 6 is also page down on the pc?

EDIT2: Let me know how this works for you: http://www.mediafire.com/?wbl7b9i1d291mcz

No luck. Here's my xbmc.log from the apple tv2 when I click menu a ton of times.

http://pastebin.com/XYV6NqsU

I don't see any "onAction" output in the log file but you can see that the transcoding works great. Is that logging not getting called for some reason?

PS... did I send you the wrong .log file? In looking at your code, the "print" statements go into the xbmc.log that I sent you just fine... but you're using "self.log". Where does that get output to? And why are you using self.log for onAction output instead of "print"?

LehighBri Wrote:PS... did I send you the wrong .log file? In looking at your code, the "print" statements go into the xbmc.log that I sent you just fine... but you're using "self.log". Where does that get output to? And why are you using self.log for onAction output instead of "print"?

not sure. maybe switch it to print if you can. I'll be back later. lunch...

mcheng89 Wrote:not sure. maybe switch it to print if you can. I'll be back later. lunch...

I switched the self.log to print statements in EPGWindow.py but no luck. The XBMC log file still doesn't show any onAction prompts. No rush to look into this. Keep me posted once you're back and get more time and I'm happy to keep playing around with this depending on what you recommend.