Is mediaportal able to do this. ? (1 Viewer)

[mce_user]

Hi

Imagine the following setup.

Site 1 ... A computer can be remote controlled to record the programs that it can receive via a analogue tv tunercard connected to an cable tv provider, it stores the recorded programs in a format that is readable by vlc or similar program in a directory that the recording computer has a FTP server running.

Site 2 ... A computer can download the files saved f.ex as "Stationname_programname_record date.avi" via site 1's FTP ..

Is this possible with mediaportal.....If not, could anyone point me to such a programme if it exists.

mce_user

 

[usualsuspect]

yes. mp tv-server can do the recording, if your analog card is supported.
programming is possible via this plugin
https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/tv-server-plugins-294/new-plugin-webservices-transcoded-streaming-web-interface-tvserver-mp-71404/
or 4therecords or gmps.
but I highly recommend you to forget the non-digital tv part. quality is far away from perfect becomes and even worse when transcoding and due to the noise your files will be quiet large.

 

[mce_user]

yes. mp tv-server can do the recording, if your analog card is supported.
programming is possible via this plugin
https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/tv-server-plugins-294/new-plugin-webservices-transcoded-streaming-web-interface-tvserver-mp-71404/
or 4therecords or gmps.
but I highly recommend you to forget the non-digital tv part. quality is far away from perfect becomes and even worse when transcoding and due to the noise your files will be quiet large.

It is highly problematic to forget the non digital channels when you consider that every channel i can receive this way is analog.

I will look into the mp-tv server part to see if this will fit my needs.

Does it really save the files in avi or similar format that can be understood by standard media players ?

Mce_user

 

[usualsuspect]

It is highly problematic to forget the non digital channels when you consider that every channel i can receive this way is analog.

what I meant with "forget about it", was a good advice to better try to replace the analog card with a digital one, eg dvb-c, dvb-t or dvb-s, as picture quality of analog tv is really poor and the high amount of noise avoids a high compression AND suitable quality. so you will end up in large sized files OR poor quality.

Does it really save the files in avi or similar format that can be understood by standard media players ?

tv-server records in .ts format which is an mpg2 that's compatible with most "standard media players"
file size auf mpg2 is quite large, so you will have to re-encode it to a better compressed format. as postprocessing opr on the fly.
check the webservices+transcoding thread.
4therecord in combination with mp-tv-server could also be an alternative.

 

[mce_user]

what I meant with "forget about it", was a good advice to better try to replace the analog card with a digital one, eg dvb-c, dvb-t or dvb-s, as picture quality of analog tv is really poor and the high amount of noise avoids a high compression AND suitable quality. so you will end up in large sized files OR poor quality.

Yes i totally understand but the problem here is that the signal i can get is analog only, there is NO digital signals, it is from a cable network that only transmits analog pal signal.

tv-server records in .ts format which is an mpg2 that's compatible with most "standard media players"
file size auf mpg2 is quite large, so you will have to re-encode it to a better compressed format. as postprocessing opr on the fly.
check the webservices+transcoding thread.
4therecord in combination with mp-tv-server could also be an alternative.

Ok, will do.

Or maybe this project is not viable at all before the cable network decides to change to digital ..

mce_user

 

[usualsuspect]

for poor but suitable quality you will probably need about 700 MB/h.
if your bandwidth is ok, it's worth a try. again: check the webservice thread. it's all in there.
but I guess, if your bandwidth is high enough, there will be the possibility of ip-tv (instead of analog)...