New program for 1 step TTG downloads, decryption, encoding - kmttg

[todd_j_derr]

The new ffmpeg makes a huge difference. I'm using the latest build (N-39267-g4082198) which is 2+ years newer than the one in the 'tools' package. I guess the AAC codec is still considered experimental so I had to add the flag '-strict -2', but so far it sounds fine to me - we'll see after I watch a whole movie. I also got libfaac working using one of the suggestions earlier in the thread so maybe I'll try that as well.

Overall, kmttg is really awesome - being able to load up movies on my tablet is great and I think it's friendly enough I could probably show my wife how to do it as well.

[saberman]

kmttg v0p7o
Updated to v0p8q with same results

I am trying to setup kmttg to use VRD QS. I set the path to VideoRedoTVSuite as the VideoRedo path.

kmttg then throws an error because it cannot file the automation class "VideoReDo.VideoReDoSilent". How do Iconfigure it to use VideoReDoTVSuite?

[moyekj]

Originally Posted by saberman

kmttg v0p7o
Updated to v0p8q with same results

I am trying to setup kmttg to use VRD QS. I set the path to VideoRedoTVSuite as the VideoRedo path.

kmttg then throws an error because it cannot file the automation class "VideoReDo.VideoReDoSilent". How do Iconfigure it to use VideoReDoTVSuite?

See:
VideoRedo_configuration Wiki.

[sanjonny]

Originally Posted by Hercules67

Now you're scaring me...

I was about to buy a Series 4 unit, so I haven't used that RPC functionality yet.

I use kmttg and pyTiVo so much, I would be so disappointed to see them destroyed.

Maybe no more TiVo for me. Time to look at other options....sadly.

HERC AND MOYEKJ:

First off, in my opinion, if you like a tivo 3 and get a premiere, i bet you will be disappointed, the menus are god aweful slow and some of the other features and such just plain suck because of overall slowness. The only positive i have found is the remote control function for scheduling and such is much better (although they could easily add same exact functionality to the 3 series but wont). I use my 3 series all the time but really only download from my 4 series and after my year is up, i will probably get rid of it. I do like the benefit of the latest one being able to tune 4 channels at once (i dont have that one though). Other users might have better things to say, but for me, the slownesd and lag of the menu system is so bad, i cannot interact with the permiere much at all, except to pull shows off it.

For moyekj, i have two questions/thoughts, is the tivowebplus lookup something that could be plugged into or have at least that part of the code pulled from to incorporate into kmttg? As i said before, it does a pretty good job.

Second, filebot (another great software namer) is really good at renaming with or without episode numbers and such and has a pretty good cli that also might be able to be bolted on without much effort. It is very customizable and the developer is all over updates and changes so he might be good to partner with.

One other thing i thought of too, is in nextpvr, there is a renamer/lookup tool that runs based on the program airdate and time which works in a diffeent but pretty cool way too which also might be a good add in to at least look at to possibly work from to bolt on renaming/episode guide stuff too. Both these are pretty good about error handling if there is no episode or whatever. I will post the name of the nextpvr tool once i look it up.

Filebot is probably the easiest/best way to go as it just plain works, has multiple dbs you can reference for both movies and tv shows and has the interface that could probably link easiest with kmttg. It is my daily go to tool for renaming as it beats everything else hands down and is actively developed.

I understand you are upset about the stupidity of tivo corp with some of their potential decisions, but just in case you do want to add more stuff to kmttg, i think those are good starting points.

One other thought, thetvdb is good, but tvrage has lots of shows that tvdb does not and because filebot makes uses of both of those along with several other dbs, it makes sense to consider if you ever do decide to start working on this, multiple database sources for naming too.

And for all users, tellingbtivo your opinion could do nothing but help our cause, so drop them an email about the remote fuction changes is always a good idea. I have already sent three!

[wmcbrine]

Originally Posted by sanjonny

First off, in my opinion, if you like a tivo 3 and get a premiere, i bet you will be disappointed, the menus are god aweful slow and some of the other features and such just plain suck because of overall slowness.

The HDUI is slow. The SDUI is fast! The Premiere is by far the fastest TiVo ever released, on a hardware level. It's particularly fast with transfers.

[danterner]

I am using the latest version of kmttg on my Windows 7 PC. KMTTG is wonderful - thank you so much for developing it and also for your helpful responses on this thread. I've been lurking here on this thread for several years, trying to glean what I can. I know nothing about scripting or custom commands or the like, but I've been able to get kmttg to do what I need. I've now hit a roadblock, though:

I have kmttg set up to download my shows and to re-encode them as MP4 files. KMTTG then automatically runs Atomic Parsley and adds metadata to the container files so that iTunes recognizes them as television shows rather than movies. I use a separate program (I believe it is called "Itunes Folder Watcher") which monitors my media download folder so that when the finished MP4 arrives it automatically gets added to my iTunes library. So far, so good. However, here's where I hit a snag: Atomic Parsley doesn't seem to be adding cover art for the shows to their meta data, though it does add all the other info correctly. I don't know how to tell it to do so, though I found some comments from a 2009 post on this thread that made it sound like this is possible. The reason I need cover art for the shows is that when they display on my iPad, the television section doesn't list their file names. All that displays is a screen capture from the start of the show - not very helpful at all, since more often than not the image is useless for identification purposes. I do have cover art for my shows already on my computer -- is there a way to get Atomic Parsley to add the cover art while it is doing its thing from within kmttg? I can go into iTunes and manually paste the jpg into the "Get Info" field, but I'm looking for more of an automated solution, if one exists. Is there a way to do this?

[saberman]

Originally Posted by moyekj

See:
VideoRedo_configuration Wiki.

Running VideoRedoTVSuite as administrator did it.

[sanjonny]

Originally Posted by wmcbrine

The HDUI is slow. The SDUI is fast! The Premiere is by far the fastest TiVo every released, on a hardware level. It's particularly fast with transfers.

Sorry, i am a dummy, i am not sure what is what, i do like the increased transfer speed of the premiere, that and the remote function are good, but the interface to go thru menus, start programs playing and all that is gawd awful compared to the series 3. What is the hdui vs sdui? I am guessing hd user interface vs standard interface but that doesnt sound right, because i can only imagine wanting to run the thing in hd but maybe i am wrong.

If there is a way to speed that part up, i would probably love the premiere so if i am missing something please let me know as even my now 12 year old replay has better and faster recording and playing interface over the premiere, and on another subject, i use you network remote on both my boxes from my laptops and have for years, awesomeness!

[wmcbrine]

Originally Posted by sanjonny

What is the hdui vs sdui? I am guessing hd user interface vs standard interface but that doesnt sound right,

Yes, that's right.

because i can only imagine wanting to run the thing in hd

The Premiere's SDUI is just like the Series 3's interface. (Well, it was, until software version 20.2 -- now it has a static blue background on all menus. But otherwise it's much the same.) HD content is still in HD. The menus are upconverted, as on the S3.

Settings & Messages > Settings > Displays > Choose TiVo Menus > pick SD menus (ignore the stuff about 16:9 vs. 4:3).

[sanjonny]

Originally Posted by wmcbrine

Yes, that's right.



The Premiere's SDUI is just like the Series 3's interface. (Well, it was, until software version 20.2 -- now it has a static blue background on all menus. But otherwise it's much the same.) HD content is still in HD. The menus are upconverted, as on the S3.

Settings & Messages > Settings > Displays > Choose TiVo Menus > pick SD menus (ignore the stuff about 16:9 vs. 4:3).

I will try it out. It would be great if the menus are fast.

[bareyb]

Originally Posted by sanjonny

I will try it out. It would be great if the menus are fast.

I use the SDUI on my Premiere Elite and they work very well. Much better than the HDUI (although it had some nice features I wish I had in the SDUI). I found it to be better looking, and a tad zippier than the UI on my Series 3 HD's.

[Hercules67]

It's becoming harder and harder to enjoy having a TV. They've finally turned off my analog channels where I am, so essentially my Series 2 DTs have become single tuner boxes. What a shame.

Time for an elite box, but then the last couple of pages here read like horror story. What to do?

/sorry for the off-topic rant... I am just aggravated today, and I don't want to go with Comcast's solution(s). There go my lifetime subs on the Tivos... down the drain.

[moyekj]

Originally Posted by moyekj

FYI I received confirmation from someone involved in TiVo beta that the next software release for US Series 4 platforms indeed does indeed kill the remote control functionality because of this tightened authentication. So unless someone can crack the password for the "cdata.p12" file that entire functionality is gone from kmttg starting with next software update. It really pi**** me off as this was the most useful capability to come our way in a long time only to get yanked away. Don't really understand the motivation given the TiVo official applications are free anyway but IMO they are very limited in functionality.
May be time to figure out how to block software updates...

Very happy to report that this should no longer be an issue as I figured out how to handle the tightened authentication.

[innocentfreak]

Originally Posted by moyekj

Very happy to report that this should no longer be an issue as I figured out how to handle the tightened authentication.

Very cool. I was dreading trying to figure out how I was going to manage all my season passes.

[bareyb]

Originally Posted by moyekj

Very happy to report that this should no longer be an issue as I figured out how to handle the tightened authentication.

Wow. That was quick. Good job.

[Hercules67]

Originally Posted by moyekj

Very happy to report that this should no longer be an issue as I figured out how to handle the tightened authentication.

Very Cool!

So of the multiple tuner systems what would you recommend for my HDTV guys (I know of course I will have issues with the DRM on some programs).

TiVo Premiere
Premiere Elite
or XL

Thanks.

[Soapm]

Originally Posted by moyekj

Very happy to report that this should no longer be an issue as I figured out how to handle the tightened authentication.

Will we have to upgrade our current packages?

This is good news so let me say thanks...

[moyekj]

Originally Posted by Soapm

Will we have to upgrade our current packages?

This is good news so let me say thanks...

Yup, updated kmttg.jar.

[sanjonny]

So first the good news, i love the sdui on the premiere. I guess i just forgot about it after initial setup and just thought it was for crazy people who hook up a hdtv tuner to an sd tv or whatever, but thank god. Why the hd menus have to be so slow, i dont understand, as they are truly terrible, but at least my experience is better now.

On a totally unrelated topic, all of a sudden, my tivo3 that has been labeled sanjonny for the entire time i have had it (since i think 2008 or so) all of a sudden is labeled dvr 1480. I looked on the unit and it said i could go to tivo.com to change the name. My premiere still has its name correctly.

I did have a few weird issues with kmttg locking up and shows not transferring so i rebooted the series 3 yesterday, but i have never seen that before. Anyone else have something like that happen? So far it seems kmttg still sees the unit as sanjonny but a separate network remote reports the name as dvr 1480. Any thoughts or suggestions?

[lpwcomp]

Originally Posted by sanjonny

On a totally unrelated topic, all of a sudden, my tivo3 that has been labeled sanjonny for the entire time i have had it (since i think 2008 or so) all of a sudden is labeled dvr 1480. I looked on the unit and it said i could go to tivo.com to change the name. My premiere still has its name correctly.

I had the same issue recently. Apparently this is a known problem with tivo.com losing the name. I had to reenter the name of my THD at tivo.com a couple of times and reboot both the THD and the Premiere a few times but things are finally back to where they should be. The reboot(s) of the Premiere were only so the THD appeared in the Premiere's NPL with the correct name.

[wmcbrine]

I lost my names the other day as well.

[zabolots]

Originally Posted by todd_j_derr

The new ffmpeg makes a huge difference. I'm using the latest build (N-39267-g4082198) which is 2+ years newer than the one in the 'tools' package.

Where did you get the new build of ffmpeg? I'm having a hard time finding precompiled win32 binaries for any recent versions of ffmpeg. The one I have (which I believe I got through the kmttg tools package) is:

FFmpeg version SVN-r21085, Copyright (c) 2000-2010 Fabrice Bellard, et al.
built on Jan 8 2010 06:05:02 with gcc 4.2.4

[moyekj]

Originally Posted by zabolots

Where did you get the new build of ffmpeg? I'm having a hard time finding precompiled win32 binaries for any recent versions of ffmpeg. The one I have (which I believe I got through the kmttg tools package) is:

FFmpeg version SVN-r21085, Copyright (c) 2000-2010 Fabrice Bellard, et al.
built on Jan 8 2010 06:05:02 with gcc 4.2.4

Very recent builds can be found here for example:
http://ffmpeg.zeranoe.com/builds/
Of course there's no guarantee that any of the existing encoding profiles will work with newest builds and something you'll have to experiment with. Quite frankly I don't encode to other formats anymore (since series 4 units can easily handle mpeg2 HD transfers faster than real time and every device I use for watching can handle mpeg2 playback) so don't pay attention to profiles and ffmpeg builds anymore, but of course it's pretty easy to update profiles yourself to have them work however you want.

[moyekj]

v0p8r version released. Contains new authentication code for iPad/RPC remote and some user-supplied enhancements related to auto transfers and 1 bug fix.
Consult release_notes Wiki for details.

[Gowan]

This may have been covered somewhere within the last 133 pages of replies, but is there any reason to use pyTivo over the combination of kmttg and streambaby that I'm using now?

I'm about to buy a Premiere since Comcast/Xfinity recently went to all-digital here and my old Series 2 DT is now effectively a single-tuner TiVo. I'm guessing from what I've read that I'll get a bit more functionality out of kmttg when using it with the Premiere.

[ncfoster]

Originally Posted by Gowan

This may have been covered somewhere within the last 133 pages of replies, but is there any reason to use pyTivo over the combination of kmttg and streambaby that I'm using now?

I'm about to buy a Premiere since Comcast/Xfinity recently went to all-digital here and my old Series 2 DT is now effectively a single-tuner TiVo. I'm guessing from what I've read that I'll get a bit more functionality out of kmttg when using it with the Premiere.

I think that I asked the same question when I was new to the Premiere. Unless something has changed, I think the primary differences are how the files show up in the Tivo (I think Streambaby has some sort of separate app on the Tivo, right?), and pyTivo offers a lot more flexibility. It will support both push and pull transfers, which behave differently. If you get it setup correctly, the pushes from pyTivo will work more smoothly in my experience due to various considerations. However, initiating those transfers doesn't happen on the Tivo, but rather from a web interface. So, it becomes a convenience versus results balance. Luckily, you can keep things working both ways with pyTivo.

Even though it is slightly hard to explain how much better pyTivo is without seeing it in operation, I prefer it dramatically. I still use kmttg for my downloads. They are not mutually exclusive.

[DougD]

On my linux box I am trying to setup a custom command to download the cover image file but can't seem to set up kmttg correctly. I have tried the script by hand and have it working for example:
$ /usr/local/bin/getcover.py "Terminator 2: Judgment Day.mpg.txt"
In kmttg I have the following for the custom program
/usr/local/bin/getcover.py '"' [metafile] '"'
I checked the box to run custom but I can't find anything in the log and am not getting any cover image.jpg files. Also I added a print line to the script but don't know where to look for it. Any ideas?

[moyekj]

Originally Posted by DougD

On my linux box I am trying to setup a custom command to download the cover image file but can't seem to set up kmttg correctly. I have tried the script by hand and have it working for example:
$ /usr/local/bin/getcover.py "Terminator 2: Judgment Day.mpg.txt"
In kmttg I have the following for the custom program
/usr/local/bin/getcover.py '"' [metafile] '"'
I checked the box to run custom but I can't find anything in the log and am not getting any cover image.jpg files. Also I added a print line to the script but don't know where to look for it. Any ideas?

Take all of the quotes out of the command and the keyword is metaFile with a capital F. i.e. Try simply:
/usr/local/bin/getcover.py [metaFile]

[moyekj]

Originally Posted by zabolots

Where did you get the new build of ffmpeg? I'm having a hard time finding precompiled win32 binaries for any recent versions of ffmpeg.

Now I remember why I stopped trying to use recent versions of ffmpeg. Looks like the developers make no effort to be backwards compatible. Aside from command line options being different (options that worked fine in previous builds no longer work) looks like ac3 audio in mp4 container seems to be broken (using -acodec copy for ac3 audio for mp4 container fails) when I tried a very recent build I downloaded from the web site I provided a link to above. Not worth the hassle for me to try and get things working with newer builds... If you don't care about ac3 in mp4 you may be OK though when using aac codec you have to add "-strict experimental" and instead of using -b option it now has to be -b:v

[DougD]

Thanks for the help, I went downstairs and change the linux box and am now waiting for kmttg to transfer another movie to verify the change works. Thanks again.