pyTivo - Transcoding server

[wmcbrine]

SourceForge is just that way. If you posted every time the forum was inaccessible, you could post about it twice a day or so.

The real problem is the wiki, which is intolerably slow. The forum at least responds quickly most of the time.

[bmarkenson]

Hello,

I am having a weird problem with ffmpeg, and I'm hoping that someone here can point me in the right direction.
I tried transferring a video file from my computer to my Tivo, but it stopped about 22 minutes into the 1.5 hour show. I looked at the source; it plays fine in Windows Media Player on my computer.

I tried running the ffmpeg command directly from the command line with the same result:

C:\Tivo\tmp>C:\Tivo\pyTivo\bin\ffmpeg.exe -i FILE -vcodec mpeg2video -b 16384k -maxrate 30000k -bufsize 4096k -ab 448k -ar 48000 -acodec copy -copyts -f vob test.mpg
FFmpeg version SVN-r15216-rdian06-0.96-win32-x86_32, Copyright (c) 2000-2008 Fabrice Bellard, et al.
configuration: --enable-memalign-hack --enable-postproc --enable-swscale --enable-gpl --enable-libfaac --enable-libfaad --enable-libgsm --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libvorbis --enable-libtheora --enable-libx264 --enable-libxvid --disable-ffserver --disable-vhook --enable-avisynth --enable-pthreads
libavutil 49.10. 0 / 49.10. 0
libavcodec 51.71. 0 / 51.71. 0
libavformat 52.22. 0 / 52.22. 0
libavdevice 52. 1. 0 / 52. 1. 0
libswscale 0. 6. 1 / 0. 6. 1
libpostproc 51. 2. 0 / 51. 2. 0
built on Sep 25 2008 23:08:49, gcc: 4.2.4 [Sherpya]
Input #0, avi, from 'FILE':
Duration: 01:36:57.01, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 1012 kb/s
Stream #0.0: Video: msmpeg4, yuv420p, 640x360, 23.98 tb(r)
Stream #0.1: Audio: ac3, 48000 Hz, stereo, s16, 192 kb/s
Output #0, vob, to 'test.mpg':
Stream #0.0: Video: mpeg2video, yuv420p, 640x360, q=2-31, 16384 kb/s, 23.98
tb(c)
Stream #0.1: Audio: ac3, 48000 Hz, stereo, s16, 192 kb/s
Stream mapping:
Stream #0.0 -> #0.0
Stream #0.1 -> #0.1
Press [q] to stop encoding
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frame=32140 fps=198 q=2.0 size= 308174kB time=1340.46 bitrate=1883.3kbits/s

The file should be >700MB, it stopped with a windows error at 308MB. An error box popped up "ffmpeg has stopped working". Here's the data from the event log:

Faulting application name: ffmpeg.exe, version: 0.0.0.0, time stamp: 0x48dc5258
Faulting module name: ffmpeg.exe, version: 0.0.0.0, time stamp: 0x48dc5258
Exception code: 0xc0000005
Fault offset: 0x000b3e13
Faulting process id: 0x1d44
Faulting application start time: 0x01ca5469bf4b0ef8
Faulting application path: C:\Tivo\pyTivo\bin\ffmpeg.exe
Faulting module path: C:\Tivo\pyTivo\bin\ffmpeg.exe
Report Id: 60a2a568-c05d-11de-a9ac-001e90651f3d

If anyone has any idea what I'm doing wrong, please let me know! Thanks for any help.

[Rdian06]

Originally Posted by bmarkenson

Hello,

I am having a weird problem with ffmpeg, and I'm hoping that someone here can point me in the right direction.
I tried transferring a video file from my computer to my Tivo, but it stopped about 22 minutes into the 1.5 hour show. I looked at the source; it plays fine in Windows Media Player on my computer.

I tried running the ffmpeg command directly from the command line with the same result:

C:\Tivo\tmp>C:\Tivo\pyTivo\bin\ffmpeg.exe -i FILE -vcodec mpeg2video -b 16384k -maxrate 30000k -bufsize 4096k -ab 448k -ar 48000 -acodec copy -copyts -f vob test.mpg
FFmpeg version SVN-r15216-rdian06-0.96-win32-x86_32, Copyright (c) 2000-2008 Fabrice Bellard, et al.
configuration: --enable-memalign-hack --enable-postproc --enable-swscale --enable-gpl --enable-libfaac --enable-libfaad --enable-libgsm --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libvorbis --enable-libtheora --enable-libx264 --enable-libxvid --disable-ffserver --disable-vhook --enable-avisynth --enable-pthreads
libavutil 49.10. 0 / 49.10. 0
libavcodec 51.71. 0 / 51.71. 0
libavformat 52.22. 0 / 52.22. 0
libavdevice 52. 1. 0 / 52. 1. 0
libswscale 0. 6. 1 / 0. 6. 1
libpostproc 51. 2. 0 / 51. 2. 0
built on Sep 25 2008 23:08:49, gcc: 4.2.4 [Sherpya]
Input #0, avi, from 'FILE':
Duration: 01:36:57.01, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 1012 kb/s
Stream #0.0: Video: msmpeg4, yuv420p, 640x360, 23.98 tb(r)
Stream #0.1: Audio: ac3, 48000 Hz, stereo, s16, 192 kb/s
Output #0, vob, to 'test.mpg':
Stream #0.0: Video: mpeg2video, yuv420p, 640x360, q=2-31, 16384 kb/s, 23.98
tb(c)
Stream #0.1: Audio: ac3, 48000 Hz, stereo, s16, 192 kb/s
Stream mapping:
Stream #0.0 -> #0.0
Stream #0.1 -> #0.1
Press [q] to stop encoding
..
frame=32140 fps=198 q=2.0 size= 308174kB time=1340.46 bitrate=1883.3kbits/s

The file should be >700MB, it stopped with a windows error at 308MB. An error box popped up "ffmpeg has stopped working".

There is probably something about that file that ffmpeg can't handle. Try updating your ffmpeg to my 0.98 build:

http://pytivo.sourceforge.net/forum/...t468.html#3557

[lrhorer]

Originally Posted by wmcbrine

SourceForge is just that way. If you posted every time the forum was inaccessible, you could post about it twice a day or so.

The real problem is the wiki, which is intolerably slow. The forum at least responds quickly most of the time.

No, this was really down hard, for at least a couple of hours. I tied every few minutes to access the forum for quite a while and got nothing. It wasn't a time-out, either. It was some weird error I haven't seen before, and it was instantaneous.

[spolebitski]

Where can I get the proper python software to run with pytivo? 2.4 or 2.5???

[Rdian06]

Originally Posted by spolebitski

Where can I get the proper python software to run with pytivo? 2.4 or 2.5???

http://www.python.org/

2.6x is recommended. It won't work with the 3.x line because their are Python language changes that haven't been accounted for in pyTivo yet.

[spolebitski]

I'll try that again but when I go to install pytivo it gives me an error (that I can't go any further till I instal 2.4 or 2.5).

[Rdian06]

Originally Posted by spolebitski

I'll try that again but when I go to install pytivo it gives me an error (that I can't go any further till I instal 2.4 or 2.5).

Are you using my March 2009 installer?

[Aredubya]

Hi folks,

Long time pyTivo user, but recently ran into an odd problem. After functioning fine for ~6 months, my Tivo series 3 stopped seeing my pyTivo shares. I followed the instructions from the main pyTivo forum on updating my version to the latest wmcbrine version and pulled down the latest ffmpeg.exe, updating my conf settings to match where I dropped it. The service starts up, but gives the following error on startup:

ERRORyTivo.beacon:Zeroconf failure

Presumably, I have a wrong setting in one of the beacon setup files, but I'm not sure where. I did notice that the good folks at Apple had force-installed the Bonjour zero config daemon on my system. It also runs on udp/5353, so I verified that the Windows Firewall still had that port (and tcp/5353) opened. Still no luck. My pytivo.conf file is quite simple (see below). Running in debug mode didn't produce anything obvious concerning zeroconf or beaconing issues, so I'm a bit stumped. Any ideas? Thanks.

[Admin]
togo_path = V:\video\Saved
tivo_mak = 5484608640
type = admin

[_tivo_SD]

[_tivo_HD]

[pyTivo Videos]
path = V:\video\
type = video
auto_subshares = false

[Server]
debug = true
port = 9032
ffmpeg = C:\Program Files\pyTivo\plugins\ffmpeg.exe

[wmcbrine]

Originally Posted by Aredubya

After functioning fine for ~6 months, my Tivo series 3 stopped seeing my pyTivo shares.

Did you try rebooting the TiVo?

Presumably, I have a wrong setting in one of the beacon setup files

No, I wouldn't presume that.

Bonjour shouldn't conflict with Zeroconf.py. Also, in principle, everything should still work in the event of a Zeroconf failure, since the old beacons are still used as well (but this is where rebooting the TiVo may help). That's why I catch the exception there, although it does kind of obscure the cause.

Did you try it more than once? Zeroconf can be erratic.

BTW, it's not the problem, but the Admin plugin is no more (it's split into ToGo and Settings). You should move the togo_path and tivo_mak lines to the Server section and remove the Admin section.

[Rdian06]

Originally Posted by Aredubya

ERRORyTivo.beacon:Zeroconf failure

Presumably, I have a wrong setting in one of the beacon setup files, but I'm not sure where. I did notice that the good folks at Apple had force-installed the Bonjour zero config daemon on my system. It also runs on udp/5353, so I verified that the Windows Firewall still had that port (and tcp/5353) opened. Still no luck. My pytivo.conf file is quite simple (see below). Running in debug mode didn't produce anything obvious concerning zeroconf or beaconing issues, so I'm a bit stumped. Any ideas? Thanks.

[Admin]
togo_path = V:\video\Saved
tivo_mak = xxxxxxxxx
type = admin

[_tivo_SD]

[_tivo_HD]

[pyTivo Videos]
path = V:\video\
type = video
auto_subshares = false

[Server]
debug = true
port = 9032
ffmpeg = C:\Program Files\pyTivo\plugins\ffmpeg.exe

Zeroconf has literally zero configuration options. Try launching services.msc and stopping the Bonjour Service. Then start pyTivo and see if it works. I don't remember anyone else mentioning this being a problem though.

Also, drop the Admin section from your conf as it doesn't exist anymore (got renamed to settings and it's always on by default now.) Move the togo_path and tivo_mak lines to the Server section.

[Aredubya]

Thanks for the pointers. Rebooting the Tivo was the first thing I tried, based on the discussions at the Sourceforge site. Didn't change the behavior though. I doublechecked my services, and Bonjour was indeed uninstalled as expected. I fired up the Sysinternals TCPView tool to check the listeners, and I see these three attached to python processes:

python.exe:29332 UDP giles:1942 *:*
python.exe:29332 UDP giles:5353 *:*
python.exe:29332 TCP giles:9032 giles:0 LISTENING

I did confirm port 9032's accessible from elsewhere on the network, but running a udp port scan of the machine (via nmap) turned up no responses on 5353 or 1942. I disabled the Windows Firewall and ran a 2nd scan with no change in results. I know the Tivo's network connectivity is working fine, as I can stream from Netflix without issue. Are there any other ports/protos I should be concerned with, or any other tips? Thanks again.

**EDIT** Fixed! I decided to do the cleanup of the admin server entries as had been suggested. Reran the startup, and this time, no Zeroconf error. I checked on Tivo, and the share is visible again. Hope this helps other folks that may be running into the same issue. Thanks again!

[wmcbrine]

Huh. Maybe it was the problem. Have to figure that out...

[stlarenas]

I have been running pytivo for a while now but have never been able to get my music to work correctly.

I just recently installed the latest version of pytivo (including wmcbrine's latest updates) on a new PC, and I would like to finally tackle my playlists problem.

Currently when I select a playlist (m3u) from my music menu, the song title shows on screen but it never starts playing. (I don't have any trouble playing standard mp3 files)

I did a little research and it seems it may have something to do with how my playlist/music is set up in my directory. Are there any general steps I can take to troubleshoot this problem? Does it matter where in directory the m3u are stored? Admittedly my music collection is a bit of a mess, are there any special charachters in the file names that will trip up pytivo?

Thanks
Diane

[wmcbrine]

One issue is that the playlists and the files they point to have to be within the same share path.

[stlarenas]

Originally Posted by wmcbrine

One issue is that the playlists and the files they point to have to be within the same share path.

Does it matter if there are subfolders in the share?

The actual error is "A problem occurred while accessing the server this may be a temporary problem due to a network interruption, or the server being busy. If the problem persists, check your network connections and verify that the tivo server application is running on your computer"

I only get this when I try to play a playlist. All other pytivo functions work for me.

Do I need to have Tivo desktop installed?

[Rdian06]

Originally Posted by stlarenas

Does it matter if there are subfolders in the share?

The actual error is "A problem occurred while accessing the server this may be a temporary problem due to a network interruption, or the server being busy. If the problem persists, check your network connections and verify that the tivo server application is running on your computer"

I only get this when I try to play a playlist. All other pytivo functions work for me.

Do I need to have Tivo desktop installed?

Not sure about the subfolder thing, but you definitely don't need Tivo Desktop for it to work.

The error message on the Tivo side won't be very helpful. You need to figure out what pyTivo's error message is:

1) Stop the pyTivo Windows service using the Start menu item (make sure to right click on the item and choose "Run as administrator" if you're using Vista/Win7)

2) Launch pyTivo using the "pyTivo - Start on Console" Start menu item. This will open a command prompt window displaying all the debug output.

3) Click on the icon in the top left corner of the window and choose Properties. On the Options table check QuickEdit Mode. Then on the Layout tab, increase Height under Screen Buffer Size to some large value (I use 5000). Then save the settings. When asked whether to modify the current session only or the shortcut that started the session, choose to modify the shortcut.

4) Scroll to the top and select drag down until you get everything. Then copy and paste it here. If the debug output has passwords or email addresses, xxx them out before posting. Also, your TSN will show in the output, make sure to xxx out all but the first 3 digits of it.

[stlarenas]

Originally Posted by Rdian06

Not sure about the subfolder thing, but you definitely don't need Tivo Desktop for it to work.

The error message on the Tivo side won't be very helpful. You need to figure out what pyTivo's error message is:

1) Stop the pyTivo Windows service using the Start menu item (make sure to right click on the item and choose "Run as administrator" if you're using Vista/Win7)

2) Launch pyTivo using the "pyTivo - Start on Console" Start menu item. This will open a command prompt window displaying all the debug output.

3) Click on the icon in the top left corner of the window and choose Properties. On the Options table check QuickEdit Mode. Then on the Layout tab, increase Height under Screen Buffer Size to some large value (I use 5000).....

I got to here...then clicked okay. After that the properties box closed and nothing in the command prompt window changed....now what?

Thanks for the response...I am on Vista BTW

[Rdian06]

Originally Posted by stlarenas

I got to here...then clicked okay. After that the properties box closed and nothing in the command prompt window changed....now what?

Thanks for the response...I am on Vista BTW

Sorry, I should have said you need to try to play a playlist between 3 and 4 so that we have debug output from when the error occurs.

Step 3 just prepares the Windows to retain more of the debug output that would normally be discarded when the output starts churning. And there will be LOTS of output.

[stlarenas]

Ahhh....Got it!

As I was searching the data to remove any private info, I noticed that it was unable to locate the file of the mp3.

I went to my playlist and realized I have some broken file paths in it (I said my library was a mess...)

So. I created a new playlist with only songs I knew the paths were correct, and tried to play it...it worked first try.

Thank you so much for taking the time to point me to the debugger. Now I can trust that my pytivo is set up correctly and spend time fixing my broken playlists...

Thanks again. Diane

[reg036]

Need some help here, I am having a few issues with the audio only on a few transferred files, they play fine on the pc but when transferred to the Tivo the audio is behind the video by a few seconds. I assume it has something to due with the way the file was encoded, but I am just getting back into using my Tivo to play media and the learning curve here is a little steep to jump into. I have upgraded to the lastest wmcbrine fork and installed rdian06 0.99 ffmpeg in attempts to solve this. Any advice would help. TIA

[lew]

1) I just upgraded my free version of AVG to version 9. In order to troubleshoot I disabled the resident shield but I didn't un-install the program.
2) I can use TivoDesktop or Tivo Playlist to D/L a program without any issues.
3) Hitting refresh shows the program being D/L (gives the speed and how much of the file was transferred) but nothing is really transferred. When In go into mytivorecordings folder the partial recording doesn't show.

I upgraded my python to 2.6.4 but that didn't help.

Any suggestions?

edited to add I just tried to "push" a video and that seems to be working.

[stlarenas]

Okay - my new computer/network and pyTivo don't seem to be getting along.

Now - I can see My shares (main folder, all subfolders, and titles of files) in the Now Playing List, and can select a video to transfer. I get the prompt saying it is going to transfer. The title of the video appears in my NPL, but it never actually transfers the show. It shows a 0:00 (partial) time. I never get the Blue transferring dot.

My shares are on an external hard drive and my path is set as I:\videos I tried to change to //MAIN/i/videos, but then My Videos said there were no files in it.

[wmcbrine]

It took me a minute to realize that you were talking about ToGo. Lew, we normally use the term "pull" to describe pulling a file to the TiVo from the TiVo side menus, as opposed to a "push" transfer, which is initiated from pyTivo's web interface.

Originally Posted by lew

3) Hitting refresh shows the program being D/L (gives the speed and how much of the file was transferred) but nothing is really transferred. When In go into mytivorecordings folder the partial recording doesn't show.

Are you sure that's the directory you've set as the "togo_path" in your pyTivo config?

[lew]

I try to match the terms to whatever is used by the program. Access pyTivo via http://localhost:9032/
and the term used is Pull from TiVos: with an option of which tivo

That said you hit the problem.

I moved my tivorecordings directory to a different drive and changed the path for My Videos. I didn't realize I also had to change the path in the togo_path

Thanks.

Originally Posted by wmcbrine

It took me a minute to realize that you were talking about ToGo. Lew, we normally use the term "pull" to describe pulling a file to the TiVo from the TiVo side menus, as opposed to a "push" transfer, which is initiated from pyTivo's web interface.

Are you sure that's the directory you've set as the "togo_path" in your pyTivo config?

[stlarenas]

Okay - I was able to get the Tivo to see the shares while using the UNC path, but I still am unable to transfer anything or play music....

Here is my console log:

Checking to see if pyTivo is already running . . .

Starting pyTivo Server. Use ctrl+Break to exit.

2009-11-02 18:26:30,332 INFO pyTivo.beacon: Announcing shares...
2009-11-02 18:26:30,901 INFO pyTivo.beacon: Registering: My Videos
2009-11-02 18:26:31,829 INFO pyTivo.beacon: Registering: Music
2009-11-02 18:26:32,756 INFO pyTivo.beacon: Scanning for TiVos...
2009-11-02 18:26:34,043 INFO pyTivo: pyTivo is ready.
2009-11-02 18:26:34,160 INFO pyTivo: 192.168.1.101 [02/Nov/2009 18:26:34] "GET
/TiVoConnect?Command=QueryContainer&Container=%2F HTTP/1.0" 200 -
2009-11-02 18:26:34,161 INFO pyTivo: 192.168.1.103 [02/Nov/2009 18:26:34] "GET
/TiVoConnect?Command=QueryContainer&Container=%2F HTTP/1.0" 200 -
2009-11-02 18:26:39,740 INFO pyTivo: 127.0.0.1 [02/Nov/2009 18:26:39] "GET /TiV
oConnect HTTP/1.1" 404 -
2009-11-02 18:26:40,821 INFO pyTivo: 127.0.0.1 [02/Nov/2009 18:26:40] "GET /fav
icon.ico HTTP/1.1" 200 -
2009-11-02 18:26:43,740 INFO pyTivo: 127.0.0.1 [02/Nov/2009 18:26:43] "GET / HT
TP/1.1" 200 -
2009-11-02 18:26:44,836 INFO pyTivo: 127.0.0.1 [02/Nov/2009 18:26:44] "GET /fav
icon.ico HTTP/1.1" 200 -
2009-11-02 18:26:46,974 INFO pyTivo: 127.0.0.1 [02/Nov/2009 18:26:46] "GET /TiV
oConnect?Command=Settings&Container=Settings HTTP/1.1" 200 -
2009-11-02 18:26:48,079 INFO pyTivo: 127.0.0.1 [02/Nov/2009 18:26:48] "GET /fav
icon.ico HTTP/1.1" 200 -
2009-11-02 18:27:05,974 INFO pyTivo: 127.0.0.1 [02/Nov/2009 18:27:05] "POST /Ti
VoConnect HTTP/1.1" 200 -
2009-11-02 18:27:07,039 INFO pyTivo: 127.0.0.1 [02/Nov/2009 18:27:07] "GET /fav
icon.ico HTTP/1.1" 200 -
2009-11-02 18:27:17,063 INFO pyTivo: 127.0.0.1 [02/Nov/2009 18:27:17] "GET /TiV
oConnect?Command=Settings&Container=Settings HTTP/1.1" 200 -
2009-11-02 18:27:18,230 INFO pyTivo: 127.0.0.1 [02/Nov/2009 18:27:18] "GET /fav
icon.ico HTTP/1.1" 200 -
2009-11-02 18:27:22,892 INFO pyTivo: 127.0.0.1 [02/Nov/2009 18:27:22] "GET /TiV
oConnect?Command=Reset&Container=Settings HTTP/1.1" 200 -
2009-11-02 18:27:22,894 INFO pyTivo.settings: pyTivo has been soft reset.
2009-11-02 18:27:23,960 INFO pyTivo: 127.0.0.1 [02/Nov/2009 18:27:23] "GET /fav
icon.ico HTTP/1.1" 200 -
2009-11-02 18:27:26,933 INFO pyTivo: 127.0.0.1 [02/Nov/2009 18:27:26] "GET /TiV
oConnect?Command=Settings&Container=Settings HTTP/1.1" 200 -
2009-11-02 18:27:28,141 INFO pyTivo: 127.0.0.1 [02/Nov/2009 18:27:28] "GET /fav
icon.ico HTTP/1.1" 200 -
2009-11-02 18:27:42,398 INFO pyTivo: 127.0.0.1 [02/Nov/2009 18:27:42] "GET / HT
TP/1.1" 200 -
2009-11-02 18:27:43,441 INFO pyTivo: 127.0.0.1 [02/Nov/2009 18:27:43] "GET /fav
icon.ico HTTP/1.1" 200 -
2009-11-02 18:27:45,403 INFO pyTivo: 127.0.0.1 [02/Nov/2009 18:27:45] "GET /TiV
oConnect?Command=QueryContainer&Container=My%20Videos HTTP/1.1" 200 -
2009-11-02 18:27:46,421 INFO pyTivo: 127.0.0.1 [02/Nov/2009 18:27:46] "GET /TiV
oConnect?Command=XSL&Container=My%20Videos HTTP/1.1" 200 -
2009-11-02 18:27:47,486 INFO pyTivo: 127.0.0.1 [02/Nov/2009 18:27:47] "GET /fav
icon.ico HTTP/1.1" 200 -
2009-11-02 18:28:06,434 INFO pyTivo: 192.168.1.103 [02/Nov/2009 18:28:06] "GET
/TiVoConnect?Command=QueryFormats&SourceFormat=video%2Fx-tivo-mpeg HTTP/1.1" 200
-
2009-11-02 18:28:07,144 INFO pyTivo: 192.168.1.103 [02/Nov/2009 18:28:07] "GET
/TiVoConnect?Command=QueryContainer&Container=My%20Videos&Sor tOrder=!CaptureDate
&ItemCount=8&Filter=x-tivo-container%2Ftivo-videos,x-tivo-container%2Ffolder,vid
eo%2Fx-tivo-mpeg,video%2F* HTTP/1.1" 200 -
2009-11-02 18:28:09,171 INFO pyTivo: 192.168.1.103 [02/Nov/2009 18:28:09] "GET
/TiVoConnect?Command=QueryFormats&SourceFormat=video%2Fx-tivo-mpeg HTTP/1.1" 200
-
2009-11-02 18:28:09,427 INFO pyTivo: 192.168.1.103 [02/Nov/2009 18:28:09] "GET
/TiVoConnect?Command=QueryContainer&Container=My%20Videos%2FT V&SortOrder=!Captur
eDate&ItemCount=8&Filter=x-tivo-container%2Ftivo-videos,x-tivo-container%2Ffolde
r,video%2Fx-tivo-mpeg,video%2F* HTTP/1.1" 200 -
2009-11-02 18:28:12,717 INFO pyTivo: 192.168.1.103 [02/Nov/2009 18:28:12] "GET
/TiVoConnect?Command=QueryFormats&SourceFormat=video%2Fx-tivo-mpeg HTTP/1.1" 200
-
2009-11-02 18:28:12,924 DEBUG pyTivo.video.transcode: starting ffmpeg, will wait
10 seconds for it to complete
2009-11-02 18:28:13,190 DEBUG pyTivo.video.transcode: ffmpeg output=FFmpeg versi
on SVN-r19249-rdian06-0.98-win-x86_32, Copyright (c) 2000-2009 Fabrice Bellard,
et al.
configuration: --enable-memalign-hack --disable-debug --enable-hardcoded-table
s --enable-runtime-cpudetect --enable-static --disable-shared --disable-ffserver
--disable-ffplay --enable-gpl --enable-pthreads --enable-libmp3lame --enable-li
bvorbis --enable-libtheora --enable-libspeex --enable-libgsm --enable-libx264 --
enable-libschroedinger --enable-libfaad --disable-decoder=aac --enable-avisynth
--enable-postproc --enable-avfilter --enable-avfilter-lavf
libavutil 50. 3. 0 / 50. 3. 0
libavcodec 52.32. 0 / 52.32. 0
libavformat 52.34. 0 / 52.34. 0
libavdevice 52. 2. 0 / 52. 2. 0
libavfilter 0. 5. 0 / 0. 5. 0
libswscale 0. 7. 1 / 0. 7. 1
libpostproc 51. 2. 0 / 51. 2. 0
built on Jun 25 2009 02:20:59, gcc: 4.4.0
[NULL @ 0x13f8250]Invalid and inefficient vfw-avi packed B frames detected

Seems stream 0 codec frame rate differs from container frame rate: 23.98 (65535/
2733) -> 23.98 (2997003/125000)
Input #0, avi, from '\\Main\i\Videos\TV\House.S06E05.avi':
Duration: 00:42:56.95, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 1136 kb/s
Stream #0.0: Video: mpeg4, yuv420p, 624x352 [PAR 1:1 DAR 39:22], 23.98 tbr,
23.98 tbn, 23.98 tbc
Stream #0.1: Audio: mp3, 48000 Hz, 2 channels, s16, 128 kb/s
At least one output file must be specified

2009-11-02 18:28:13,213 DEBUG pyTivo.video.transcode: aFreq=48000; vFps=23.98; c
ontainer=avi; kbps=1136; mapAudio=[('0.1', '')]; vHeight=352; vCodec=mpeg4; Supp
orted=True; aKbps=128; par=None; millisecs=2576950; par2=1.0; par1=1:1; mapVideo
=0.0; vWidth=624; dar1=39:22; aCodec=mp3
2009-11-02 18:28:13,214 DEBUG pyTivo.video.transcode: CACHE HIT! \\Main\i\Videos
\TV\House.S06E05.avi
2009-11-02 18:28:13,220 DEBUG pyTivo.video.transcode: CACHE HIT! \\Main\i\Videos
\TV\House.S06E05.avi
2009-11-02 18:28:13,221 DEBUG pyTivo.video.transcode: CACHE HIT! \\Main\i\Videos
\TV\House.S06E05.avi
2009-11-02 18:28:13,223 DEBUG pyTivo.video.transcode: TRANSCODE=YES, vCodec mpeg
4 not compatible, \\Main\i\Videos\TV\House.S06E05.avi
2009-11-02 18:28:13,226 DEBUG pyTivo.video.transcode: CACHE HIT! \\Main\i\Videos
\TV\House.S06E05.avi
2009-11-02 18:28:13,227 DEBUG pyTivo.video.transcode: CACHE HIT! \\Main\i\Videos
\TV\House.S06E05.avi
2009-11-02 18:28:13,229 INFO pyTivo: 192.168.1.103 [02/Nov/2009 18:28:13] "GET
/TiVoConnect?Command=QueryContainer&Container=My%20Videos%2FT V&SortOrder=!Captur
eDate&ItemCount=1&AnchorItem=%2FMy%2520Videos%2FTV%2FHouse.S 06E05.avi&AnchorOffs
et=-1&Filter=x-tivo-container%2Ftivo-videos,x-tivo-container%2Ffolder,video%2Fx-
tivo-mpeg,video%2F* HTTP/1.1" 200 -
2009-11-02 18:28:13,378 DEBUG pyTivo.video.transcode: CACHE HIT! \\Main\i\Videos
\TV\House.S06E05.avi
2009-11-02 18:28:13,380 DEBUG pyTivo.video.transcode: CACHE HIT! \\Main\i\Videos
\TV\House.S06E05.avi
2009-11-02 18:28:13,384 DEBUG pyTivo.video.transcode: CACHE HIT! \\Main\i\Videos
\TV\House.S06E05.avi
2009-11-02 18:28:13,387 DEBUG pyTivo.video.transcode: CACHE HIT! \\Main\i\Videos
\TV\House.S06E05.avi
2009-11-02 18:28:13,388 DEBUG pyTivo.video.transcode: TRANSCODE=YES, vCodec mpeg
4 not compatible, \\Main\i\Videos\TV\House.S06E05.avi
2009-11-02 18:28:13,390 DEBUG pyTivo.video.transcode: CACHE HIT! \\Main\i\Videos
\TV\House.S06E05.avi
2009-11-02 18:28:13,391 DEBUG pyTivo.video.transcode: CACHE HIT! \\Main\i\Videos
\TV\House.S06E05.avi
2009-11-02 18:28:13,473 INFO pyTivo: 192.168.1.103 [02/Nov/2009 18:28:13] "GET
/TiVoConnect?Command=TVBusQuery&Container=My%20Videos&File=%2 FTV%2FHouse.S06E05.
avi HTTP/1.1" 200 -
2009-11-02 18:28:27,164 DEBUG pyTivo.video.transcode: CACHE HIT! \\Main\i\Videos
\TV\House.S06E05.avi
2009-11-02 18:28:27,167 DEBUG pyTivo.video.transcode: TRANSCODE=YES, vCodec mpeg
4 not compatible, \\Main\i\Videos\TV\House.S06E05.avi
2009-11-02 18:28:27,167 INFO pyTivo: 192.168.1.103 [02/Nov/2009 18:28:27] "GET
/My%20Videos/TV/House.S06E05.avi HTTP/1.1" 206 -
2009-11-02 18:28:27,168 DEBUG pyTivo.video.video: \\Main\i\Videos\TV\House.S06E0
5.avi is not tivo compatible
2009-11-02 18:28:27,171 DEBUG pyTivo.video.transcode: CACHE HIT! \\Main\i\Videos
\TV\House.S06E05.avi
2009-11-02 18:28:27,176 DEBUG pyTivo.video.transcode: CACHE HIT! \\Main\i\Videos
\TV\House.S06E05.avi
2009-11-02 18:28:27,180 DEBUG pyTivo.video.transcode: CACHE HIT! \\Main\i\Videos
\TV\House.S06E05.avi
2009-11-02 18:28:27,184 DEBUG pyTivo.video.transcode: CACHE HIT! \\Main\i\Videos
\TV\House.S06E05.avi
2009-11-02 18:28:27,186 DEBUG pyTivo.video.transcode: tsn: 5900001802E8AF4
2009-11-02 18:28:27,187 DEBUG pyTivo.video.transcode: aspect169: False
2009-11-02 18:28:27,187 DEBUG pyTivo.video.transcode: optres: False
2009-11-02 18:28:27,188 DEBUG pyTivo.video.transcode: File=\\Main\i\Videos\TV\Ho
use.S06E05.avi vCodec=mpeg4 vWidth=624 vHeight=352 vFps=23.98 millisecs=2576950
TIVO_HEIGHT=480 TIVO_WIDTH=544
2009-11-02 18:28:27,190 DEBUG pyTivo.video.transcode: rheight=22 rwidth=39
2009-11-02 18:28:27,190 DEBUG pyTivo.video.transcode: par2=1.000 ratio=177.273 m
ult4by3=1.176
2009-11-02 18:28:27,191 DEBUG pyTivo.video.transcode: File is wider than 4:3 pad
ding top and bottom
-aspect 4:3 -s 544x360 -padtop 60 -padbottom 60
2009-11-02 18:28:27,194 DEBUG pyTivo.video.transcode: CACHE HIT! \\Main\i\Videos
\TV\House.S06E05.avi
2009-11-02 18:28:27,198 DEBUG pyTivo.video.transcode: CACHE HIT! \\Main\i\Videos
\TV\House.S06E05.avi
2009-11-02 18:28:27,203 DEBUG pyTivo.video.transcode: CACHE HIT! \\Main\i\Videos
\TV\House.S06E05.avi
2009-11-02 18:28:27,211 DEBUG pyTivo.video.transcode: transcoding to tivo model
590 using ffmpeg command:
2009-11-02 18:28:27,213 DEBUG pyTivo.video.transcode: C:\Program Files\pyTivo\bi
n\ffmpeg.exe -i \\Main\i\Videos\TV\House.S06E05.avi -vcodec mpeg2video -r 29.97
-b 4096k -maxrate 30000k -bufsize 1024k -aspect 4:3 -s 544x360 -padtop 60 -padbo
ttom 60 -ab 448k -ar 48000 -acodec mp2 -copyts -f vob -
FFmpeg version SVN-r19249-rdian06-0.98-win-x86_32, Copyright (c) 2000-2009 Fabri
ce Bellard, et al.
configuration: --enable-memalign-hack --disable-debug --enable-hardcoded-table
s --enable-runtime-cpudetect --enable-static --disable-shared --disable-ffserver
--disable-ffplay --enable-gpl --enable-pthreads --enable-libmp3lame --enable-li
bvorbis --enable-libtheora --enable-libspeex --enable-libgsm --enable-libx264 --
enable-libschroedinger --enable-libfaad --disable-decoder=aac --enable-avisynth
--enable-postproc --enable-avfilter --enable-avfilter-lavf
libavutil 50. 3. 0 / 50. 3. 0
libavcodec 52.32. 0 / 52.32. 0
libavformat 52.34. 0 / 52.34. 0
libavdevice 52. 2. 0 / 52. 2. 0
libavfilter 0. 5. 0 / 0. 5. 0
libswscale 0. 7. 1 / 0. 7. 1
libpostproc 51. 2. 0 / 51. 2. 0
built on Jun 25 2009 02:20:59, gcc: 4.4.0
[NULL @ 0x2ff430]Invalid and inefficient vfw-avi packed B frames detected

Seems stream 0 codec frame rate differs from container frame rate: 23.98 (65535/
2733) -> 23.98 (2997003/125000)
Input #0, avi, from '\\Main\i\Videos\TV\House.S06E05.avi':
Duration: 00:42:56.95, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 1136 kb/s
Stream #0.0: Video: mpeg4, yuv420p, 624x352 [PAR 1:1 DAR 39:22], 23.98 tbr,
23.98 tbn, 23.98 tbc
Stream #0.1: Audio: mp3, 48000 Hz, 2 channels, s16, 128 kb/s
[mp2 @ 0x2f0dcb0]bitrate 448 is not allowed in mp2
Output #0, vob, to 'pipe:':
Stream #0.0: Video: mpeg2video, yuv420p, 544x480 [PAR 20:17 DAR 4:3], q=2-31
, 4096 kb/s, 90k tbn, 29.97 tbc
Stream #0.1: Audio: mp2, 48000 Hz, 2 channels, s16, 448 kb/s
Stream mapping:
Stream #0.0 -> #0.0
Stream #0.1 -> #0.1
Error while opening encoder for output stream #0.1 - maybe incorrect parameters
such as bit_rate, rate, width or height
2009-11-02 18:28:27,453 DEBUG pyTivo.video.video: Finished outputing video
2009-11-02 18:28:34,575 INFO pyTivo: 192.168.1.103 [02/Nov/2009 18:28:34] "GET
/TiVoConnect?Command=QueryFormats&SourceFormat=video%2Fx-tivo-mpeg HTTP/1.1" 200
-
2009-11-02 18:28:34,693 DEBUG pyTivo.video.transcode: CACHE HIT! \\Main\i\Videos
\TV\House.S06E05.avi
2009-11-02 18:28:34,697 DEBUG pyTivo.video.transcode: CACHE HIT! \\Main\i\Videos
\TV\House.S06E05.avi
2009-11-02 18:28:34,706 DEBUG pyTivo.video.transcode: CACHE HIT! \\Main\i\Videos
\TV\House.S06E05.avi
2009-11-02 18:28:34,710 DEBUG pyTivo.video.transcode: CACHE HIT! \\Main\i\Videos
\TV\House.S06E05.avi
2009-11-02 18:28:34,710 DEBUG pyTivo.video.transcode: TRANSCODE=YES, vCodec mpeg
4 not compatible, \\Main\i\Videos\TV\House.S06E05.avi
2009-11-02 18:28:34,714 DEBUG pyTivo.video.transcode: CACHE HIT! \\Main\i\Videos
\TV\House.S06E05.avi
2009-11-02 18:28:34,719 DEBUG pyTivo.video.transcode: CACHE HIT! \\Main\i\Videos
\TV\House.S06E05.avi
2009-11-02 18:28:34,757 INFO pyTivo: 192.168.1.103 [02/Nov/2009 18:28:34] "GET
/TiVoConnect?Command=QueryContainer&Container=My%20Videos%2FT V&SortOrder=!Captur
eDate&ItemCount=8&Filter=x-tivo-container%2Ftivo-videos,x-tivo-container%2Ffolde
r,video%2Fx-tivo-mpeg,video%2F* HTTP/1.1" 200 -
2009-11-02 18:28:36,687 INFO pyTivo: 192.168.1.103 [02/Nov/2009 18:28:36] "GET
/TiVoConnect?Command=QueryFormats&SourceFormat=video%2Fx-tivo-mpeg HTTP/1.1" 200
-
2009-11-02 18:28:37,155 INFO pyTivo: 192.168.1.103 [02/Nov/2009 18:28:37] "GET
/TiVoConnect?Command=QueryContainer&Container=My%20Videos&Sor tOrder=!CaptureDate
&ItemCount=8&AnchorItem=%2FTiVoConnect%3FCommand%3DQueryCont ainer%26Container%3D
My%2520Videos%2FTV&AnchorOffset=-1&Filter=x-tivo-container%2Ftivo-videos,x-tivo-
container%2Ffolder,video%2Fx-tivo-mpeg,video%2F* HTTP/1.1" 200 -

[Rdian06]

Originally Posted by stlarenas

Okay - I was able to get the Tivo to see the shares while using the UNC path, but I still am unable to transfer anything or play music....

Here is my console log:

Checking to see if pyTivo is already running . . .

Starting pyTivo Server. Use ctrl+Break to exit.

2009-11-02 18:26:30,332 INFO pyTivo.beacon: Announcing shares...

...

2009-11-02 18:28:27,211 DEBUG pyTivo.video.transcode: transcoding to tivo model
590 using ffmpeg command:
2009-11-02 18:28:27,213 DEBUG pyTivo.video.transcode: C:\Program Files\pyTivo\bi
n\ffmpeg.exe -i \\Main\i\Videos\TV\House.S06E05.avi -vcodec mpeg2video -r 29.97
-b 4096k -maxrate 30000k -bufsize 1024k -aspect 4:3 -s 544x360 -padtop 60 -padbo
ttom 60 -ab 448k -ar 48000 -acodec mp2 -copyts -f vob -
FFmpeg version SVN-r19249-rdian06-0.98-win-x86_32, Copyright (c) 2000-2009 Fabri
ce Bellard, et al.
configuration: --enable-memalign-hack --disable-debug --enable-hardcoded-table
s --enable-runtime-cpudetect --enable-static --disable-shared --disable-ffserver
--disable-ffplay --enable-gpl --enable-pthreads --enable-libmp3lame --enable-li
bvorbis --enable-libtheora --enable-libspeex --enable-libgsm --enable-libx264 --
enable-libschroedinger --enable-libfaad --disable-decoder=aac --enable-avisynth
--enable-postproc --enable-avfilter --enable-avfilter-lavf
libavutil 50. 3. 0 / 50. 3. 0
libavcodec 52.32. 0 / 52.32. 0
libavformat 52.34. 0 / 52.34. 0
libavdevice 52. 2. 0 / 52. 2. 0
libavfilter 0. 5. 0 / 0. 5. 0
libswscale 0. 7. 1 / 0. 7. 1
libpostproc 51. 2. 0 / 51. 2. 0
built on Jun 25 2009 02:20:59, gcc: 4.4.0
[NULL @ 0x2ff430]Invalid and inefficient vfw-avi packed B frames detected

Seems stream 0 codec frame rate differs from container frame rate: 23.98 (65535/
2733) -> 23.98 (2997003/125000)
Input #0, avi, from '\\Main\i\Videos\TV\House.S06E05.avi':
Duration: 00:42:56.95, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 1136 kb/s
Stream #0.0: Video: mpeg4, yuv420p, 624x352 [PAR 1:1 DAR 39:22], 23.98 tbr,
23.98 tbn, 23.98 tbc
Stream #0.1: Audio: mp3, 48000 Hz, 2 channels, s16, 128 kb/s
[mp2 @ 0x2f0dcb0]bitrate 448 is not allowed in mp2
Output #0, vob, to 'pipe:':
Stream #0.0: Video: mpeg2video, yuv420p, 544x480 [PAR 20:17 DAR 4:3], q=2-31
, 4096 kb/s, 90k tbn, 29.97 tbc
Stream #0.1: Audio: mp2, 48000 Hz, 2 channels, s16, 448 kb/s
Stream mapping:
Stream #0.0 -> #0.0
Stream #0.1 -> #0.1
Error while opening encoder for output stream #0.1 - maybe incorrect parameters
such as bit_rate, rate, width or height

...

pyTivo is trying to convert the audio from mp3 to mp2, but the audio bitrate it's trying to use is higher than allowed by ffmpeg. According to the configure docs, pyTivo isn't supposed to select mp2 audio by default, it should be using ac3. So it seems you configured it to force mp2 audio for your Series 2 box. If you choose to do that, you also need to reduce the audio bitrate setting to something like 192k to be within the allowed bitrate range for the mp2 encoder in ffmpeg (which I assume is part of the mp2 spec).

See http://pytivo.sourceforge.net/wiki/i...nfigure_pyTivo

Specifically audio_codec and audio_br sections.

[wmcbrine]

Better yet, don't use MP2. There is no reason to. In fact... maybe I should kill that option altogether.

[Rdian06]

Originally Posted by wmcbrine

Better yet, don't use MP2. There is no reason to. In fact... maybe I should kill that option altogether.

Yeah, the wiki implies that using mp2 audio with 2 channels reduces the size of the transfer.

I don't care since I want 5.1 output and I only have S3s.

If it does offer significant size savings, maybe introduce a cap on the audio_br setting so you can't specify a value too high based on the codec and TSN you're sending to. For instance you could cap the AC3 bitrate at 448k since anything higher will transmit to an S3 but will result in no audio playback?

[stlarenas]

Thank you! I forgot I changed it to mp2 when I installed the latest version. The only reason I did it was because I thought that was the recommended setting based on what was in the Wiki for series 2 units (I only have series 2). I will make the change back to the default setting when I get home.

Thanks again for your help.
Diane