[Announce] MPTvClient V1.2.5 (20.12.2007) II

[Nippywiffle]

Hi,
I got this working, and it's an excellent addition to MP.

A couple of questions though:

1. I got my list of TV channels to show, but the "recordings" tab is blank, as is the "radio" tab. I have a lot of recordings and 1 radio station set up, but none show. Is there something I can do to make them show up?

2. I tried streaming an HD channel. It started, but the video was messed up and the audio was just strange clicking noises. I don't really expect HD to work, but just wondered if anyone had made that work?

Thanks,
Dan

[allanp81]

Originally Posted by Nippywiffle

Hi,
I got this working, and it's an excellent addition to MP.

A couple of questions though:

1. I got my list of TV channels to show, but the "recordings" tab is blank, as is the "radio" tab. I have a lot of recordings and 1 radio station set up, but none show. Is there something I can do to make them show up?

2. I tried streaming an HD channel. It started, but the video was messed up and the audio was just strange clicking noises. I don't really expect HD to work, but just wondered if anyone had made that work?

Thanks,
Dan

1) Right click in the white space and say refresh and they'll all appear.

[Yucca]

Originally Posted by allanp81

1) Right click in the white space and say refresh and they'll all appear.

I also had the same problem, but now everything is working fine... Thanks guys...
I have one more question for U:
Can I start (or do a schedular) recording with this?

[ravenrocks]

Works great for streaming over WAN when making vlc convert the stream, although I would like the parameters-field to actually work instead of crashing when entering parameters for streaming. But I can configure the streaming manually and it works.
Thank god for remote desktop hehe.

[level20peon]

Originally Posted by cheezey

I had this error when my firewall was blocking MPTVClient getting to TVServer.

Right, I deactivated portforwarding. After reactivating it I get a really big error popup though:





Interesting thing is: "server=SRV4"... I never entered this into the gentle.config. This is the local DNS name of the TV-Server PC in my network. I entered the DynDNS address into gentle.config and even tried with the external IP. I am still getting the same error. I looked for an entry in "documents and settings" and in the registry but could not find anything. So where does the TV client take this name from ? Does it read the gentle.config after all ?


-level20peon


EDIT: I found the source of the "server=SRV4" entry. There is another gentle.config on the TV-Server's PC itself (!) in the "C:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\All Users\Anwendungsdaten\MediaPortal TV Server" folder. The TV-client doesn't work without it after all but there is no reference to this file in this thread. Am I missing something Oo ?

[yardern]

It is great!

MediaPortal in not stable on my computer.

And with this plugin I can watch TV using VLC. Thanks.

I tried with ZoomPlayer, Media Player Classic, Windows Media Player. Seem not working. Any one can confirm this?

[ph4r4o]

Originally Posted by ravenrocks

Works great for streaming over WAN when making vlc convert the stream, although I would like the parameters-field to actually work instead of crashing when entering parameters for streaming. But I can configure the streaming manually and it works.
Thank god for remote desktop hehe.

Any solution for this problem? I only got the stream transcoded manually in vlc, would be a lot more confortable to set this directly in the parameters section in the TV-Client.

[level20peon]

Originally Posted by yardern

I tried with ZoomPlayer, Media Player Classic, Windows Media Player. Seem not working. Any one can confirm this?

I think VLC is the only player able to handle the multimedia stream of TV-Server. I tried MPC and WMP once (long time ago) without success.


-level20peon

[MJGraf]

+1 for ph4r4o's feature request. I use TVE alot over VPN through the internet. However, my upstream is too small to stream in full bandwidth. Now I use VNC to start timeshifting (via TVServer Config) on the server and start VLC on the server for transcoding. Afterward I start VLC on the client to watch TV.

Would be really great if I could just put the parameters for transcoding into TVClient and when I double click a channel there, the server starts streaming (as it does now), additionally VLC is started on the server with the mentioned parameters (this is the new part) and then VLC starts on the client to watch TV (again something already in).

Keep up the good work!

Michael

[jblomb]

One thing.. the User field always shows the local computer name instead of the actual client..
In GetStreamingStatus() in ServerInterface.cs

state.userName = User.Name;

I guess it should be:

state.userName = vcard.User.Name;