Talk:ROKU HD Frontend
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You may want to adapt your frontend to pull data from the native XML server run in mythbackend, rather than requiring a separate web server. See MythXMLTest for a program detailing how to access these methods.
- Unfortunately, we still need a mechanism to create the necessary images in the proper format. The mythbackend XML won't provide any of that information or generate the image files.
- The XML interface provides a 'GetPreviewImage' mechanism that returns PNGs from an optional size and video position.
- Sweet. I'll give it a shot.
- The XML interface provides a 'GetPreviewImage' mechanism that returns PNGs from an optional size and video position.
- Unfortunately, we still need a mechanism to create the necessary images in the proper format. The mythbackend XML won't provide any of that information or generate the image files.
Do you have a working transcode script for getting h264 into an mp4? If so, could you post it? The existing linked script uses the Matroska container (which the Roku won't recognize), not mp4. I'm currently trying to make this work by replacing the "mkvmerge" (line 50) with an ffmpeg string, but I'm butchering the quality pretty badly.
- Okay, I seem to have most everything working except actually playing the episode (I'm using the SD output of the Roku HD). The telnet debug console shows the following when I try to play:
"PlayEpisode Enter http://192.168.XXX.XXX/mythroku/1006_20101023210700.mp4 PlayEpisode Exit"
Any ideas on how to troubleshoot this? Thanks!
