Need help output to .ts file instead of .mkv

William Sun · 2012-03-12T10:19:35+00:00

Hi all, I just want to have the recordings to be output as .ts file instead of .mkv file because VLC player cannot recognize the subtitle format of the reco...

Markus Bonet

Eric Valette - wrote:

> It has never been included.

So git-66a18e5 might have been already one of your versions? Is there a way for me to find out? Because this version definately records to TS but wouldn't show me the options in the UI.

> That's a bug I have seen too that can be cured by:
> 1) Removing the config file but also the automatic recording that may contain old reference to dvr config entries,
> 2) Rebooting to be sure you use the correct tvheadend (and not left over from previous aborted tentative)
> 3) recreating the config
>

> Depending on how you install tvheadend (package, install) you may end up using a wrong binary...

Thanks for these hints, I will give that a try.

Markus Bonet

> So git-66a18e5 might have been already one of your versions? Is there a way for me to find out? Because this version definately records to TS but wouldn't show me the options in the UI.

I am pretty sure I checked that version out using git.

Funny though, there is a built binary:

ll build.Linux/tvheadend

-rwxr-xr-x 1 markus users 2373434 9. Apr 18:53 build.Linux/tvheadend

Which is identical to the version I am currently running (git-66a18e5):
[root@homeserver tvheadend_cur]# diff build.Linux/tvheadend /usr/local/bin/tvheadend
[root@homeserver tvheadend_cur]# ps -ef|grep tvhead

markus 7792 1 0 17:43 ? 00:00:02 /usr/local/bin/tvheadend -u markus -C -f

But if I call "make clean" and "make", it will fail like this:

make:* No rule to make target `/home/markus/tvheadend/src/dvr/mkts.c', needed by `build.Linux/src/dvr/mkts.o'. Stop.

I really don't get it...
Markus

Eric Valette

Markus Bonet wrote:
> > So git-66a18e5 might have been already one of your versions? Is there a way for me to find out? Because this version definately records to TS but wouldn't show me the options in the UI.

> But if I call "make clean" and "make", it will fail like this:

> make:* No rule to make target `/home/markus/tvheadend/src/dvr/mkts.c', needed by `build.Linux/src/dvr/mkts.o'. Stop.

I would suggest to recone my repository of do a git reset --hard at least!

https://github.com/EricV/tvheadend/blob/master/src/dvr/mkts.c is still there in the git tree.

Markus Bonet

Eric Valette - wrote:

> I would suggest to recone my repository of do a git reset --hard at least!

OK, this helped. After make clean, make finished w/o problems.

Size of the binary now is different, but the version reported is still the same (git-66a18e5). Although there were some system upgrades (kernel etc.) in between. Can't tell if this influences the size of the binary.

And finally: the options are back in the UI!

Harri Markkula

While VLC is started from EPG, it does not find DVB subtitles from the transport. I suppose there should be some command line parameters added to it.

Is there any way to do this?

Jaime Vazquez

I am successfully running the standard build of tvheadend, but I am very interested in switching to EricV's build (for two reasons: our MKV recordings have no audio, even though live TV does, and my hearing-impaired wife requires subtitles, which aren't available in our MKV recordings or live TV).

Sadly, I'm a HUGE NEWB when it comes to Linux. Could someone provide some instructions or guidance on how to install EricV's build of tvheadend? I gather that I should back up my config files, grab the new build, compile it and run it... I'm just not sure how to do that.

Many thanks in advance!

Jaime

Jaime Vazquez

more specifically: I have been able to compile the build--I'm just not sure how to replace my existing installation with EricV's version. Thanks in advance!

Eric Valette

First of all: on what linux flavor are you running? Did you install from a package? Can you rebuild a package on your system? If yes there is nothing speciual to do except removing everything in the /home/hts/.hts/tvheadend/dvr directory (Not the directory itself).

Jaime Vazquez

Thanks for the reply! I am on xbmcbuntu (xbmc freak, pre-frodo). I was actually able to get your build running, I ended up reinstalling xbmcbuntu altogether and just installing yours from the start. It's working now, but I don't see where in the interface I select *.ts output instead of MKV. I know it's a silly question, but could you point me to where that is? Thank you! Jaime

Eric Valette

Depends if its for recording or streaming. Its both on the configuration menu. For streaming, on the channel you have two links. One is TS. For recording, you can define recording methods and you have matroska or TS.

Jaime Vazquez

Thank you for the reply! The build I compiled is from EricV-tvheadend-3913532.zip. The TS options should appear using this one, no? Unfortunately I'm not seeing the links you describe. Under Configuration --> Channels, the only link I see is "Play" (but I don't have the browser plugin, so this doesn't do much). Under Configuration --> Digital Video Recorder, the options are the same as they were when I was using the stock/standard TVheadend. Am I looking in the wrong place? Or using the wrong build? Sorry to bother you with this, I feel like I must be missing something obvious! Thank you, Jaime

Jaime Vazquez

The steps I took to install EricV's version of tvheadend (as I recall them):

* I unzipped EricV-tvheadend-3913532.zip
* From the command line I changed directories to the unzipped folder
* I typed ./configure
* This created a subdirectory called build.linux
* I changed directories to the build.linux
* I typed tvheadend

...and everything seemed to install OK from there. Funny thing is, I don't see the TS options in any of the interface. At first I was thinking that I installed from the wrong build, but if I go into the src folder, I can see tsmux.c and tsmux.h, which indicate that TS support is in the build I have, right? Did I miss a step during installation or do some part of that wrong? TVheadend is up and running fine (web interface is good, found channels OK, runs well from XBMC, etc), I'm just missing the option to record to TS.

Here are some screencaps of my setup:

http://screencast.com/t/wjY5zuYFLmZK

http://screencast.com/t/JzucfBhDvK6

Eric Valette

I'm patient but sometimes I'm losing my nerves. When typing tvheaedend, do you think the old installation one is killed? If not, gien the way binding do sockets port works, who do you think are you using?

What does "ps ax | grep tvheadend" show?

Jaime Vazquez

I am sorry if I'm being a pest. If you don't have time to respond I completely understand.

the command you suggested shows:

1471 ? Ssl 0:09 /usr/bin/tvheadend -f -u xbmc -g video

1810 pts/0 S+ 0:00 grep --color=auto tvheadend

I thought I did a full reinstall of Linux and then only used the EricV build that I compiled (and once I did so, audio returned to my MKV recordings, which was a big difference from the stock 2.12 version).

If someone could post a screenshot of where the TS support is in the interface, that would help too.

Again, I totally understand if I am trying your patience, and don't hesitate to tell me if it's too much trouble to help me. Thank you! Jaime

Eric Valette

So you have installed tvheadend? You said you did run it from the build directory. In that case it would show ./tvheadend and the parameter you typed.

Anyway there areonly two solutions:
1) You did not execute the binary that has been produced from my tree

2) You picked upa wrong tree

instead of typing "tvheadend", give the full pathname for the binary in the build directory

Markus Bonet

Furthermore, isn't it important to run "sudo make install", so that the HTML skeleton stuff is installed to "/usr/local/share/tvheadend"?

I missed that too when I first switched to a version where this became necessary. Or is your tree different here?

Jaime: Nevertheless it is ok to run "sudo make install" after "make" (you did run "make" after "./configure --release", didn't you?), as tvheadend will then be installed to your filesystem, so a plain "tvheadend" call from anywhere in the shell should start the right binary then. You might check with "which tvheadend" to see where you path is pointing to (I assume this will be "/usr/local/bin/tvheadend").

But I encountered something else strange: I am not able to edit different DVR settings anymore. The drop down selector will not show any saved configuration. If I modify the loaded default settings and save it to a new configuration this config file is written but you cannot choose it neither for editing nor for the DVR configuration to use for recordings.

Any hint on that?

Eric Valette

> But I encountered something else strange: I am not able to edit different DVR settings anymore. The drop down selector will not show any saved configuration. If I modify the loaded default settings and save it to a new configuration this config file is written but you cannot choose it neither for editing nor for the DVR configuration to use for recordings.
>

> Any hint on that?

I have got that too. Usually is was because I did not stop correctly tvheadend before reinstalling a new .deb. The solution I have been using is: remove /home/hts/.hts/tvheadend/dvr/* including the log file that may contain ref to removed config names. Reboot recreate the config (takes less than a minute).

Jaime Vazquez

THANK YOU, Eric and Markus! At last, success.

I was doing several things wrong (obviously): I had not done a "make," or a "sudo make install." Once I did that, I was still not seeing the new options for the TS format... then I realized that there were multiple versions of the tvheadend binary on my system (not sure how that happened, as this was on a fresh install of XBMCbuntu / XBMCfreak, although it dawns on me that it may have come with tvheadend pre-installed). But I could tell there was a good EricV binary and an old "stock" binary on my system, because when I stopped the service and then specified the EricV binary, I would see the new options, until I rebooted, and then I would go back to stock again.

In any case, also following the directions from here:

https://www.lonelycoder.com/redmine/boards/5/topics/4433

(That is, doing a "sudo nano /etc/init.d/tvheadend" and changing "usr/bin/" to "usr/local/bin")

Everything started working!

Thank you again for all of your kind assistance. I realize that those of us in the "know enough to be dangerous" category with Linux can probably be pretty annoying, so I really appreciate the patience and troubleshooting!

Cheers!

Jaime

Jaime Vazquez

Hopefully my last question: what's the appropriate file extension when selecting "Raw Transport Stream" in the DVR section of the Configuration? Thanks!

Eric Valette

Jaime Vazquez wrote:

> Hopefully my last question: what's the appropriate file extension when selecting "Raw Transport Stream" in the DVR section of the Configuration? Thanks!

You have exhausted you support budget :-) The right answer is mpeg ts container. The raw transport stream will dump the whole mux with all programs on the trsponder. Very heavy and unacceptable by most player.

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