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roger1818 · 2012-01-17, 03:42 PM

One nice thing about handbrake is it will automatically crop out the black bars (letter and pillar boxes). One issue I have had though is some of TVO's UK programming is window-boxed with a 14:9 aspect ratio. Handbrake does the right thing and will remove all the black bars and MythVideo will play the resulting file just fine. The issue is if I then try to use MythArchive to put the video on a DVD, it will stretch it to 16:9 (distorting the picture) when it should be either letter boxing it to 4:3 or pillarboxing it to 16:9.

Any suggestions for fixing this?

Digital_Frank · 2012-02-15, 11:20 AM

Anyone use MythStream? It transcodes on the fly and streams live/recorded TV to browsers.

rsambuca · 2012-02-15, 07:57 PM

Ug. Just read that one of the lead developers of mythtv has left to create a fork called torc. Hopefully this won't thin the developer resources too much.

majortom · 2012-02-15, 08:16 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Digital_Frank

Anyone use MythStream? It transcodes on the fly and streams live/recorded TV to browsers.

I haven't, but In this thread I tried to explain what I do for adhoc channels/feeds that I haven't bothered to setup in mythtv. Works great.

roger1818 · 2012-02-16, 03:27 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by rsambuca

Ug. Just read that one of the lead developers of mythtv has left to create a fork called torc. Hopefully this won't thin the developer resources too much.

It will be interesting to see what transpires of this. There is some speculation that this could just be a temporary fork for him/them to start working on 0.26 before 0.25 is released.

Digital_Frank · 2012-04-23, 10:29 PM

Mythtv .25 was released April 10th:
http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Release_Notes_-_0.25

It looks to have a lot of new features... Http streaming, AirPlay, and more.
I will do a clean install on a new drive to see how it works with my hardware.

Please post you upgrade results...

stampeder · 2012-04-24, 02:34 AM

As discussed in this thread: http://www.digitalhome.ca/forum/showthread.php?t=152823

mwalma · 2012-05-21, 09:34 PM

Hello all,

I've written a little python script to scrape the CBC web site for scheduling information and put the results in to an xmltv/mythfilldatabase compatible form. You use it like this:

# ./scraper 2012/05/21 > sched_20120521.xml
# mythfilldatabase --update --file 1 sched_20120521.xml

Since I rely on the PSIP info for my EPG, and CBC does not provide, this allows me to get CBC scheduling.

Would this be of interest to anyone - I would be happy to share it - or is there a better thread to discuss this?

If you are interested and grabbing a copy now, surf to newmovies.walma.org and right-click to download scraper.py. It is very rough and does no input sanatizing or exception catching, so use it carefully. It also depends on "beautiful soup" for html parsing, which, if you are using some flavour of linux, should be available through your package manager. There are some comments in the code which will give some hints to getting it working.

Mike

2012-01-17, 03:42 PM	#391
roger1818 Veteran Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Ottawa (Stittsville), ON, OTA (Radio Shack Omnidirectional Antenna and 5Y6S in Attic), MythTV HTPC Posts: 5,680	One nice thing about handbrake is it will automatically crop out the black bars (letter and pillar boxes). One issue I have had though is some of TVO's UK programming is window-boxed with a 14:9 aspect ratio. Handbrake does the right thing and will remove all the black bars and MythVideo will play the resulting file just fine. The issue is if I then try to use MythArchive to put the video on a DVD, it will stretch it to 16:9 (distorting the picture) when it should be either letter boxing it to 4:3 or pillarboxing it to 16:9. Any suggestions for fixing this? __________________ Link to my TVFool results is in my profile Homepage URL. I suggest others do the same.

2012-02-15, 11:20 AM	#392
Digital_Frank Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: North of the Lake Posts: 123	Anyone use MythStream? It transcodes on the fly and streams live/recorded TV to browsers. __________________ Smart shoppers always read the fine print.

2012-04-23, 10:29 PM	#396
Digital_Frank Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: North of the Lake Posts: 123	Mythtv .25 was released April 10th: http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Release_Notes_-_0.25 It looks to have a lot of new features... Http streaming, AirPlay, and more. I will do a clean install on a new drive to see how it works with my hardware. Please post you upgrade results... __________________ Smart shoppers always read the fine print.

2012-04-24, 02:34 AM	#397
stampeder OTA Forum Moderator Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: North Delta, BC (96Av x 116St) Posts: 23,338	MythTV 0.25 Thread As discussed in this thread: http://www.digitalhome.ca/forum/showthread.php?t=152823 __________________ New To OTA? OTA FAQ & Knowledge Base OTA Antenna Chart 8.2

2012-05-21, 09:34 PM	#398
mwalma Rookie Join Date: Jun 2011 Location: Old Ottawa South Posts: 3	A script to scrape the CBC website for schedule info for mythtv Hello all, I've written a little python script to scrape the CBC web site for scheduling information and put the results in to an xmltv/mythfilldatabase compatible form. You use it like this: # ./scraper 2012/05/21 > sched_20120521.xml # mythfilldatabase --update --file 1 sched_20120521.xml Since I rely on the PSIP info for my EPG, and CBC does not provide, this allows me to get CBC scheduling. Would this be of interest to anyone - I would be happy to share it - or is there a better thread to discuss this? If you are interested and grabbing a copy now, surf to newmovies.walma.org and right-click to download scraper.py. It is very rough and does no input sanatizing or exception catching, so use it carefully. It also depends on "beautiful soup" for html parsing, which, if you are using some flavour of linux, should be available through your package manager. There are some comments in the code which will give some hints to getting it working. Mike

2012-02-15, 07:57 PM	#393
rsambuca Veteran Join Date: May 2006 Location: Calgary Posts: 1,635	Ug. Just read that one of the lead developers of mythtv has left to create a fork called torc. Hopefully this won't thin the developer resources too much.

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