vserver and tyshow, shows longer than 60 minutes won't play

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So I've got some friends moving in in a couple of weeks, and obviously I'm not necessarily going to get as much time as I'd like watching my own things on the tv, so I've been playing around with tyshow and vserver on the tivo so I can watch things I've recorded elsewhere in the house. My problem is that any show longer than 60 minutes (even if it's e 5 minute extended episode) will just crash media player and close it. Anything 60 minutes or less is fine.

 

thanks, it was worth a shot. Will let you know if I find an answer.

 

Would that be a problem when streaming? The Tivo itself obviously can handle larger files, but I don't think it's that.

It's a problem that only occurs with shows longer than 60 minutes long. A 30 minute episode of the Simpsons only takes up about 600 MB, so a 1 hour show should only take about 1200 MB so I don't think it is a 2 GB file size problem.

I'm still waiting for a reply on deal database, but as soon as I find out what's wrong I'll update here.

 

so a bug in the tyshow plugin for windows media player?
maybe I'll have another go at getting vlc working...

 

No, they aren't copied over. I'm trying to stream live from the Tivo using the asx links in tivowebplus, using vserver, tyshow and wmp. I'm not using mode 0 and not sure what vbr is, so I'll guess at no since I'm not sure what it is.

Update: okay I've got it fixed. turns out I was using tyshow beta0.14 which crashes like that. I downloaded beta0.15 which sort of fixed the problem, only now you can't watch two different things one after the other else media player crashes. I then found this post on deal database by THardie where someone else has compiled it and fixed the errors. Works without a hitch now.

Thank you for all your help

 

ok why has it censored the web address? replace all the stars with deal database - but make it one word. I mean how is this supposed to be useful to others in the future if it's blocked?