[plugin] BTV Recorded Shows (Jan 10 Update)

[Brett]

Originally Posted by mickwall

How can this be made to work with Link also?

I want this to work with Link just as much all of you folks (even though I have no Link machines). The issue is that the filename returned from the API is a local filename ie: c:\shows\my show.mpg. I am not familar enough with networking to get this working some other way. I guess if you were to share the computer, and somehow defined the location ie: \\tvbox\ it might be possible as long as the local path were shared the same name... ie:

\\tvbox\c\shows\my show.mpg for c:\shows\my show.mpg?

Would this be of interest to folks? Ofcourse, doing it would also take away time from my other plugin. Then again, it would actually benefit the other plugin eventually anyway.

-Brett

[mickwall]

Originally Posted by Brett

I want this to work with Link just as much all of you folks (even though I have no Link machines). The issue is that the filename returned from the API is a local filename ie: c:\shows\my show.mpg. I am not familar enough with networking to get this working some other way. I guess if you were to share the computer, and somehow defined the location ie: \\tvbox\ it might be possible as long as the local path were shared the same name... ie:

\\tvbox\c\shows\my show.mpg for c:\shows\my show.mpg?

Would this be of interest to folks? Ofcourse, doing it would also take away time from my other plugin. Then again, it would actually benefit the other plugin eventually anyway.

-Brett

I guess Link must already know the server name, so something like

\\servername\c$\shows\my show.mpg might do it.

c$ is a private share set up by windows - it will be read only but that should be OK,

The will be one of these for each drive c$ d$ e$ etc.

Thoughts anyone!


Mick

[Brett]

Originally Posted by mickwall

c$ is a private share set up by windows - it will be read only but that should be OK,

Hmm... if its read only, I would not be able to mark the shows "watched".

-Brett

[mickwall]

Originally Posted by Brett

Hmm... if its read only, I would not be able to mark the shows "watched".

-Brett

Is there not a BTV API to do that?, Link does it so it must be possible?

Mick

[nanook105]

Originally Posted by Brett

Would this be of interest to folks? Ofcourse, doing it would also take away time from my other plugin. Then again, it would actually benefit the other plugin eventually anyway.

-Brett

Yes. I have link running on a couple of PCs that are connected to TVs, and adding BM and these plugins to the mix would be great. Any idea why I am not getting any names for the shows on the Pre 3.5 movies ?

[emg178]

Ouch, I downloaded the file videofolders.bmplugin (link in the first post), installed it, and restarted BM, but BM would not load.
I restarted the machine, let BTV load, waited 5 mins, tried loading BM, and it hung again.
After another restart, I deleted the plugin folder and everything loaded fine.
B/t/w, I'm using windows 2000 and BTV 3.5.1. Is there any way to get a log file to help diag. this?

On another note: For those that want to autoload BTV and BM on startup, there are utilities that can load programs on startup after a delay. You can pick the order and the delay of programs on startup. To find a few, search google for: startup programs delay windows. At least two will show up.

[Brett]

BTV has to be started before BM. And it will only work if you have BTV, not BTV Link.

-Brett

[emg178]

Originally Posted by Brett

BTV has to be started before BM. And it will only work if you have BTV, not BTV Link.

-Brett

Brett, as I said, I started BTV first, and waited 5 minutes before attempting to load BM. I am not running BTV link.

[Brett]

Originally Posted by emg178

Brett, as I said, I started BTV first, and waited 5 minutes before attempting to load BM. I am not running BTV link.

Do you have a different port (than 8129) defined, or an admin password? Right now it assumes all defaults.

-Brett

[emg178]

Originally Posted by Brett

Do you have a different port (than 8129) defined, or an admin password? Right now it assumes all defaults.

-Brett

No, the port is 8129. I'll check for an admin password, but I'm pretty sure that I never set one up.

[optikhog]

Originally Posted by Brett

I want this to work with Link just as much all of you folks (even though I have no Link machines). The issue is that the filename returned from the API is a local filename ie: c:\shows\my show.mpg. I am not familar enough with networking to get this working some other way. I guess if you were to share the computer, and somehow defined the location ie: \\tvbox\ it might be possible as long as the local path were shared the same name... ie:

\\tvbox\c\shows\my show.mpg for c:\shows\my show.mpg?

Would this be of interest to folks? Ofcourse, doing it would also take away time from my other plugin. Then again, it would actually benefit the other plugin eventually anyway.

-Brett

Could this be done through some kind of remapping procedure, such as that used in the BTV skin for MediaMVP? Their config file allows you to simply type in the path on the server for the file, then specify what the path should be replaced with for the local machine. Best of all, it uses an array, so you can have an infinite number of remapped drives.

I might be comparing apples to oranges as I haven't seen your code, but if you're looking for a direction to go in with this, take a look.

Thanks again!

[MazzoTech]

Is there any way to choose the intervideo non css decoder to play the btv files. I am having problems with filling the screen in BM

[dequire]

One feature request: Since Parental Controls are fast becoming a big issue with families that deploy BTV throughout the household, and since there is also a PIN module for BM (and NOT for BTV)...

...Is there a way to have a folder NOT listed in BTV that a plugin could automatically move certain recorded shows to? This folder would be mapped in BM (not visible in BTV), and would require the PIN module to access through BM. Then they would be visible in a plugin like this. This would provide some level of parental controls, currenty lacking in BTV.

Any thoughts??

[shalamigri]

This plugin is cool, but I can't seem to play any showsqueezed movies with it. It only plays mpg2 files on my box. Anyone else experience this?

[geoffstewart]

I just tried this plugin out and it worked for me with BTV Link. I had to do the following though:

1) All my video folders on the BTV server are set with UNC names (i.e., \\pvr\bigdrive\shows, etc). That way when the plugin gets an absolute path back from the API, it can read the file... in my case, it can read and write the file since my shares are read/write.

EDIT: I had to return from UNC file names (write permissions were not working), but used mapped drive names that were consistent across the network. For example, on the BTV server, I mapped a local drive E: to S: so that the BTV Link machine can map the same drive to S: as well. This config allows for consistent media naming between BTV and BM on different machines.

2) I downloaded a freeware port forwarding tool to port forward port 8129 TCP from the BTV Link machine to port 8129 TCP on the BTV server machine. The tool I used was http://www.networkactiv.com/AUTAPF.html. It's free and works quite well as far as I can tell so far.

With this working, I may take a stab at modding this plugin. I would like to use zoomplayer to view my recorded shows since I can have complete control over exactly what directshow filters are used and how they are used. I may setup a player registry like the DVD Library has done.... hmmmmm..... only so many hours in a day

Hope this helps.

Geoff