pyTivo Discussion Forum

[billdog79]

Thanks wmcbrine! This is exactly what I've been waiting on. No more waiting around for ffmpeg. For my purposes at least, this is by far the best way to go.

I get all of my movies from one source, they are all in xvid format and out of over 400 movies I have yet to find one that ffmpeg can't handle.

Tivo Desktop is continuing to be left farther and farther behind.
Thanks to all the developers who take time out of their lives to help all of us.

[philhu]

All pyTivo needs is to allow sending tivo to pyTivo....then no more
need for tivo desktop

[TreborPugly]

[windracer]

The web address is actually:

https://{your TiVo IP}/nowplaying/index.html

You can also just leave off the /nowplaying/index.html. Works fine for me in Firefox.

[wmcbrine]

[wmcbrine]

wgw, I think I was harsh in my reply to you, and for that I apologize. I was just frustrated, because I thought we'd covered all that in the "Pre-filtering videos by file extension" thread. However, to be clear, I don't accept your proposal, and won't be doing that in my fork -- except for the part about documenting it better. Of course you must do what you think is right in your own fork.

I assume you re-raised the issue because you feel that pre-caching now negates the benefits of extension-based filtering (ignoring the startup time). I don't agree. The points from the old thread still apply -- without extension-based filtering, there are still false positives, from image files (and they're common, unlike false negatives, which remain hypothetical); even pre-caching is faster when it doesn't have to wade through description files and such; and filtering in still makes more sense than filtering out, to me.

[gcw07]

OK, so I've been playing around with the latest snapshot. Everything seems to be working except possibly the sub folders function (hack83). Though I may be misunderstanding how that is supposed to work and if so, sorry for asking such a stupid question. Basically what it is doing for me is allowing me to go into a share and then into a folder (example: My TV -> Lost). Now anything in that folder directly can be played, however if I have more subfolders within (example: Lost -> Season 4), it will never let me go into the subfolders. It just brings back up the same list over and over again. Is that normal behavior or is it doing something wrong? Thanks for your help.

[wmcbrine]

You need a) the right branch, and b) to have "hack83 = True" in the [Server] section of your pyTivo.conf. If you get my master branch, it doesn't have hack83; you need the subfolders-8.3 branch. (It is in KRKeegan's and wgw's master branches.)

[gcw07]

That was it. I had the wrong branch. Thank you for your help and for working on this project.

[rjmitche]

All this work is excellent. pyTivo just keeps getting better and better. Thanks to everyone for the work on this.

The precache stuff sounds great. I've installed wmcbrine's latest master and added precache=true to my pytivo.conf. A couple of (likely stupid) questions:

1. Do I need to add precache=true to every share that I want to be pre-cached or just once for everything?

2. Is there some way to tell that the pre-caching is actually happening? I seem to remember someone (krkeegan?) mentioning the addition of some print lines for the prechache function but, where would I find this info? I'm not serving up a ton of files so, measuring the speed difference isn't all that easy. FWIW... I'm running pyTivo as a service and have debug = true.

not exactly precache related but....

3. Speaking of logs/debug... I see a log.txt in the pytivo directory and debug.txt in C:\Python25\Lib\site-packages\win32\. Is this the normal location for these files? Also, re: log.txt - is this relatively new (I don't recall seeing it until recently... but I may just have not noticed it) and, does it contain what would be output in the command window if not running as a service?

4. I noticed that some of the entries in my pytivo.conf have spaces around the "=" and some don't (e.g. type = video vs. precache=true)... does this matter?

[wmcbrine]