pyTivo Discussion Forum

[random2009]

Ahh, sorry for using the wrong term, thanks for explaining.

So if there is no hope of it getting fixed by the ffmpeg folks anytime soon, is there a chance you could release an alternate version with the audio transcoding permanently turned on? Or would that be something that has to be changed in the pyTivo code?

[950ash]

Sorry been busy,
What I did is make another video folder and put all my MKv's(which is the ones that I have problems with)in with the default.txt that only has that one line.
No problems works great.

[mktippett]

[rdian06]

[mktippett]

Thanks! That work around seems to work!

Is your build source available? I could try compiling that.

[rdian06]

[Aaron1121]

It looks like a new version of FFMPEG was released a few weeks ago that supports windows media audio pro.

Does anyone know of a place that has a compiled version of the new version .exe that will work with pytivo?

[choekstr]

I have been hit with audio dropouts and inability for ffmpeg to transfer files quite heavily lately.
I couldn't transfer the SiTV versions of Stargate Universe (non-monotone timestamp) but Override_aCodec : wma fixed that.

I was also hit just last night with Pandorum and Deadline movies both having very significant audio dropouts. Despite trying to add Override_aKbps: 1024, compiling new version from SVN of FFMPEG, running 11/08/2009 version of wmcbrine pytivo, I finally gave up and watched them on my WD-TV box.

I am getting real sick of ffmpeg and the hacks and workarounds and in the end it just won't work like it should. We all have plenty of examples where VLC or Windows Media Player will play the video with no issues whatsoever and yet ffmpeg balks on the file. It seems their attitude is "Fix your video" whereas the rest of the media players try to play a broken video any way they can.

Also, somewhere I think rdian06 made a comment like we are all starting to see an increase in messed up files, codecs, and especially audio timestamps. I tend to agree as I feel we are getting more "all-in-one" encoding programs that do single pass encoding with crappy and buggy results; thus downgrading the overall quality of our files. But what we don't have is an increase in resilience in ffmpeg to handle these files whereas the rest of our tools like VLC, WMP, bsplayer, etc are all becoming more resilient.

I would love to have another cmd-line tool that works better with the same functionality as ffmpeg. Heck even mencoder will play files that ffmpeg won't and IT IS FROM THE SAME CODEBASE! I mean come on, do we have to deal with these issues in today's 2009 age of computer sophistication? The Popcorn Hour's, the WD-TV's, Roxio's, etc all play all content almost flawlessly. It isn't insurmountable as evidenced in our software, our hardware dedicated boxes and yet we still wallow in the bottom cesspool of support with ffmpeg.

Ok, rant off. I had to get that off my chest so I can preserve my sanity. Besides I look like a fool to my wife every time a video has issues so for the sake of our marriages and relationships we have to make this a flawless seamless process so we are rockstars, not ffmpeg duds!

[950ash]

Yeah its a 50/50 chance that Ffmpeg will have problems with the audio.
I pretty much use PS3 media server that uses Mencoder for any higher formats.

We know you guys are not responsible for ffmeg but have you guys thought about switching?

[audiodane]

Does ffmpeg have any dynamic range compression features? When pushing/pulling content to the Tivo it would be nice to have a lot of the dynamic range removed for normal TV-speaker enjoyment...

Just curious.. thanks!

..dane

[rdian06]

[rdian06]

[950ash]

[audiodane]

[rdian06]