[plugin] BTV Recorded Shows (Jan 10 Update)

[johnny_swindle]

I will be standing up an additional computer with BTV link and will potentially add BM (to exploit the DVD player option).

Since I know just enough to be dangerous, would love to hear more about the success of getting this plugin to work with BTV link and BM.

Thanks...........

Johnny

Originally Posted by 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

[geoffstewart]

johnny,

I actually stopped investigating this plugin a couple of weeks after posting this message. I could not get the drive mapping to work consistently in my setup... it would either be a permission issue or files would not refresh properly and thus would be out of synch with BTV. That was a show-stopper for me.

I use BTV Link and BM and love the combination. When I wrote this statement, was having problems with BTV and my selection of codecs (nvidia). Since then, i've reverted to Snapstream S/P codec with overlay and love the quality. On the rare occasion when the BTV Link playback quality is annoying me, I can still use zoomplayer to watch a show because now I have comskip generating the commercial segments and outputting both BTV and zoomplayer file formats.

Sorry, this doesn't help you with this plugin much, I suppose.

Good luck.

Geoff

[johnny_swindle]

Thank you for your reply....Hopefully someone can direct us on how to make this plugin work with BTV Link.


Johnny

[LionRed]

Any chance this could get a life line for the Link option?

[Brett]

Originally Posted by LionRed

Any chance this could get a life line for the Link option?

It can't work with Link. (or atleast the verison of BTV I tested)

As I recall... the problem was with the drive mapping. BTV was returning the local file name, not a networked filename. You could probably trick it somehow to have the same folder. However, it still would have issues with refreshing as mentioned above.

Sorry for the disappointment, but thats just the facts. I might have the source code available on my desktop if someone were interested in taking a look and fixing it. Keep in mind I wrote it for BTV 3.5.

Thanks!
-Brett