Android application: taSageTV

[mzup]

Originally Posted by Fonceur

Are you saying that you can stream to your Droid over wifi but not over 3G? If so, than make sure you have forwarded the streaming port (7070 in your case), or maybe try another one in case your provider is blocking it.

I am using wifi outside of local network. Opened port here at work. Switched to 554 as well. Tried 3g and have same issue. Also reinstalled ac3 filter and that fix that issue. But still unable to stream. If I figure it out I will post my findings.

[Doubledose]

Fonceur

I turned off the firewall and then tried this on the server machine: rtsp://192.168.xxx.xxx:554/stream.sdp
and got this: Your input can't be opened:
VLC is unable to open the MRL 'rtsp://192.168.xxx.xxx:554/stream.sdp'. Check the log for details.

[Fonceur]

Originally Posted by Doubledose

I turned off the firewall and then tried this on the server machine: rtsp://192.168.xxx.xxx:554/stream.sdp
and got this: Your input can't be opened:
VLC is unable to open the MRL 'rtsp://192.168.xxx.xxx:554/stream.sdp'. Check the log for details.

Well, if you can't even stream from VLC to VLC on the same machine, then of course it will never work on the Android device...

What you might want to do is copy the whole VLC command line from your sagetv_0.txt log file, paste it in notepad and save it as mystream.cmd or such. Then open up a command prompt, execute that file and see if there's any error. If all is fine, launch another instance of VLC on that machine and try accessing that network stream.

Not directly linked, but since you are running the Android OS 2.3, are you able to stream the following in Safari:

httplive://devimages.apple.com/iphone/samples/bipbop/gear1/prog_index.m3u8

That's using Apple's HTTP Live streaming, which could be an alternative to the whole VLC mess...

[Doubledose]

Fonceur
I am not sure what response I should get in a command window. Is this the command line you are talking about:

 "C:/Program Files/VideoLAN/VLC/vlc.exe" -I dummy --one-instance --extraintf oldhttp --sout-keep --no-sout-rtp-sap --no-sout-standard-sap --rtsp-caching=5000 -f "F:\Sageshows-3\SurvivorRedemptionIsland-6324665-0.mpg" --sout "#duplicate{dst='transcode{soverlay,ab=100,samplerate=44100,channels=2,acodec=mp4a,vcodec=h264,width=352,height=240,vfilter="canvas{width=352,height=240,aspect=16:9}",fps=29,vb=200,venc=x264{vbv-bufsize=500,partitions=all,level=12,no-cabac,subme=7,threads=4,ref=2,mixed-refs=1,bframes=0,min-keyint=1,keyint=50,trellis=2,direct=auto,qcomp=0.0,qpmax=51,deinterlace}}:gather:rtp{sdp=rtsp://:554/stream.sdp}'}" vlc://quit

I put that into a notepad file as you said and named it mystream.cmd. I then executed that file and got continuos lines changing the bits until I stopped it reading. It was continuosly running this line changing the bits. X264 Warning : ubv underflow (-1215bits) I did not see any errors.
If the above is the line you wanted me to put in the vlc, I tried to put it into the network stream and got the error: your input cannot be opened
Wayne

[Fonceur]

Originally Posted by Doubledose

I then executed that file and got continuos lines changing the bits until I stopped it reading. It was continuosly running this line changing the bits. X264 Warning : ubv underflow (-1215bits) I did not see any errors.

So basically VLC is choking on it, which explains why you're not able to stream the file... Try to increase the value of vbv-bufsize=500, maybe at 1000 or more...

[Doubledose]

fps\=29,vb\=200,venc\=x264{vbv-bufsize\=500

Is this the line you are talking about? It was already on 500. Before I go changing anything let me know if that line above is the right one. Actually I see a couple more of these in the streaming transcode options. Is there one in particular I should change?
Wayne

[Fonceur]

Originally Posted by Doubledose

Is this the line you are talking about?

I'm talking of the file you are executing, there's only one place for it... You need to get VLC working on its own before you can think of using it through SageTCPServer/TaSageTV...

It was already on 500.

Which is why I said to increase it to 1000 or more...

[Fonceur]

Version 1.61

- Moved the TV guide to the Recordings section.
- Changed some rooted device's registration.

[jm9843]

Hey Fonceur,

Do you have plans to do any Honeycomb/tablet enhancements for taSageTV? I've got a Xoom and wouldn't mind testing some things if it'd help. Fyi, a static library was released to support the new Fragments API back to Android 1.6. More info here: http://android-developers.blogspot.c...s-for-all.html

Also, you might be interested in some Android emulator skins for the Nexus S and Nexus One: http://goo.gl/BWx78. Those G1 pics in the first post are killing me!

Keep up the good work!

[Fonceur]

Originally Posted by jm9843

Do you have plans to do any Honeycomb/tablet enhancements for taSageTV?

Yes, once things slow down with TiSageTV, I'll have some catching up to do with TaSageTV. Hopefully by then everyone will have moved to SageTV 7 and I won't need to bother about backward compatibility...

Fyi, a static library was released to support the new Fragments API back to Android 1.6.

Yes I have had Eclipse up to date for a bit... Just haven't actually looked at the changes yet.

Also, you might be interested in some Android emulator skins for the Nexus S and Nexus One:

Right, the 2.0 skin doesn't even try to look like a phone, it's why I stuck with the 1.5ish look.

[Korny]

Maybe I missed the answer to this question throughout all the posts but I'll ask anyhow. I'm interested in this program however the non market place registration concerns me because I'm a frequent changer of ROMs on a root EVO and don't want to have to contact you every time I change a rom version. Am I miss understanding how the registration works?

[Fonceur]

Originally Posted by Korny

however the non market place registration concerns me because I'm a frequent changer of ROMs on a root EVO and don't want to have to contact you every time I change a rom version.

As long as the unique ID doesn't change, it won't matter. Though we do have plans to make the migration to other devices easier...

[mzup]

I got my droid to play thru wireless on local lan with this profile.

sageTCPServer/streamingTranscodeOptions=fps\=15,vcodec\=mp4v,vb\=512,scale\=1,width\=352,height\=240,acodec\=mp4a,ab\=192,channels\=2,samplerate\=44100,deinterlace,audio-sync

It plays perfect. When I try to go thru 3G it starts the vlc stream but comes up unable to play video. I tried different ports to see if that was the issue. Still no go.

Any thoughts?

[Fonceur]

Originally Posted by mzup

It plays perfect. When I try to go thru 3G it starts the vlc stream but comes up unable to play video. I tried different ports to see if that was the issue. Still no go.

And you forwarded those various ports each time?

[mzup]

Originally Posted by Fonceur

And you forwarded those various ports each time?

Yes I forwarded them. I think it's verizon blocking all ports. I read on a forum that someone did a port scan and everything was blocked. Don't know if it is true but I believe it.

If someone else has verizon and has this working thru 3G, please post. Otherwise, I'll stick with the wireless usage.

[Fonceur]

Version 1.62

- Now requires SageTV 7 or newer.
- Client information is now provided by SageTCPServer 2.1.2+.
- Fix: The Power button did not work properly for some.


As I had warned previously, I finally dropped the SageTV 6 compatibility and now uses the latest SageTCPServer which requires SageTV version 7...

[Fonceur]

Version 1.63

- Fix: Kept re-adding the Clients on a Server reconnect.
- Updated the Information list.


I am starting to make the TaSageTV UI closer to the TiSageTV one... Some things will be simplified, like in this case I got rid of the various filters, which I considered were not that useful in the first place.

[batwater]

Originally Posted by Fonceur

Version 1.63

- Fix: Kept re-adding the Clients on a Server reconnect.
- Updated the Information list.

Still not getting the client definitions on this version.

[Fonceur]

Originally Posted by batwater

Still not getting the client definitions on this version.

I will need to see the sagetv_0.txt log file...

[batwater]

Originally Posted by Fonceur

I will need to see the sagetv_0.txt log file...

Log emailed