Just an FYI to everyone. This is still under active development, so I can't guarantee that at any particular time when you download it from github that it will work. Also consider this super alpha, so I won't be able to provide much support. I really just posted it, so that people who know what they are doing can get it to work, and play around with it. If you would like to follow the progress, feel free to monitor the thread over at Tivo community, which is where I will mostly be posting.
meikeric's app is still probably the best bet, as he plans to submit to to the app store, and I don't.
I tested your version with a Sony TV. Browsing works fine, playing does nothing (nothing at the PMS side, simulated start on the TV, then black screen). Tested means trying to play different kinds of video (avi, mp4, mkv).
I'm guessing your version is for TiVo only, this from the installation of the TiVo profiles which I'm also guessing are irrelevant on a Sony TV (and PMS has its own profiles for the DLNA player on the TV).
Bottom line: Don't polute this thread with information that is not useful (i.e. if its only for TiVo, then its not relevant, and should be in its own thread).
Let me ask you something. Do you think accusing me of polluting this thread is going to make it MORE or LESS likely that I spend MY valuable personal time to get something working on YOUR television?
Perhaps you can do something useful and tell me what media formats your Sony TV supports. Although the app is geared towards TiVo, it shouldn’t be a big deal getting to work on other devices.
Edit: also try enabling HTTP transcoding in the options menu
Edit 2: also make sure you install the profiles because your guess is wrong. They do matter.The other dlna profiles are irrelevant.
I tested your version with a Sony TV. Browsing works fine, playing does nothing (nothing at the PMS side, simulated start on the TV, then black screen). Tested means trying to play different kinds of video (avi, mp4, mkv).
I'm guessing your version is for TiVo only, this from the installation of the TiVo profiles which I'm also guessing are irrelevant on a Sony TV (and PMS has its own profiles for the DLNA player on the TV).
Bottom line: Don't polute this thread with information that is not useful (i.e. if its only for TiVo, then its not relevant, and should be in its own thread).
Wow. I don't exactly appreciate your attitude.
Let me ask you something. Do you think accusing me of polluting this thread is going to make it MORE or LESS likely that I spend MY valuable personal time to get something working on YOUR television?
Perhaps you can do something useful and tell me what media formats your Sony TV supports. Although the app is geared towards TiVo, it shouldn't be a big deal getting to work on other devices.
Edit: also try enabling HTTP transcoding in the options menu
Edit 2: also make sure you install the profiles because your guess is wrong. They do matter.The other dlna profiles are irrelevant.
I can confirm that it works perfectly via the Sony TV web browser (with web browser navigation showing at the top). Really smooth navigation and quick load times. 1080p works great too.
The app works really well too. However, it seems to be zoomed in on every video I have tried (only shows the top left of each video).
Thanks Ntlord for spending so much time and effort on this, it's fantastic!!!
rberber, go and pollute other forums with your useless posts and bad attitude.
I can confirm that it works perfectly via the Sony TV web browser (with web browser navigation showing at the top). Really smooth navigation and quick load times. 1080p works great too.
The app works really well too. However, it seems to be zoomed in on every video I have tried (only shows the top left of each video).
Thanks Ntlord for spending so much time and effort on this, it's fantastic!!!
rberber, go and pollute other forums with your useless posts and bad attitude.
Can you take a picture of it, so I can see what you mean? What resolutions does the app say the videos are?
Also go to this website in your URL loader, and tell me what sizes it says:
Just download the Plex Tivo for github.com and I have uploaded to my web, I do not know as the profiles are installed...
Opera TV has been out of service all day, catching 'whatsmy.browser.com' by URL LOADER is yesterday.
Sorry for my English... :(
You need to take the .XML files that are in the github download, and place them in the profiles directory of your plex server. Then reboot plex. If you haven't done that it for sure won't play videos.
I was having trouble yesterday with Opera TV too. It looks like they are having problems.
The last video I tested was 1080p and the app showed the right size under the poster.
Since my last post I have been unable to open the opera tv store at all, which isn't helpful. I've even tried a factory reset.
So the attached image is actually from the tv web browser, not the app (not sure if that helps).
As I can't open the app at the minute I will try to explain the problem better because I can't take a photo of it.
I'd say the resulting video is zoomed in by roughly 200% and it's focused on the top left of the video.
I will keep trying the opera tv store in the meantime.
Thanks
I think Opera store is down. Try a 720p video once things are working again, and see if that works any better. I haven't tried anything that is 1080p yet, so it might be a bug.
I have placed Tivo.xml and Tivo_24fps.xml in C:\Program Files\Plex\Plex Media Server\Resources\Profiles and the videos do not play..... I have to do something else?
I have placed Tivo.xml and Tivo_24fps.xml in C:\Program Files\Plex\Plex Media Server\Resources\Profiles and the videos do not play..... I have to do something else?
Ok. Try this version. Its a bit more buggy (especially with seeking), and has less features (i.e. no myplex), but it includes my custom MPEG-DASH player, which may make it more compatible.
It supports everything. The issue is that it transcodes any video that is not an .mp4/.ts (encoded with H264 +AAC) to an mpegts stream encoded with H264 +AAC. If you have http streaming enabled it will just do a straight transcode, where the output of the encoder is an mpegts file. If you don't have HTTP streaming enabled (in the PlexTivo options) it uses HLS streaming.
I suspect your device does not support HLS or mpegts, which is where the problem is. I suspect a similar situation with the other people, who can't get videos to play.
Try the dashplayer version I posted above.
As an aside, the code you posted above, doesn't have much to do with anything. The video resolution sent to the transcoder is mostly related to the quality of the transcoding. It has nothing to do with the size the video is displayed at. The Opera TV browser, as far as I know, can only display at a maximum of 720p, regardless of the device you are using, which is why I limited it to 720p. Moreover, it starts to choke on the higher bitrates.
