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    1. Oatcake

      Scraping TV text

      I have managed to substitute one letter for another, but I don't think it's possible to change the length of the text that the Humax wants to display. So, for example, the sleep button's pop-up message could probably be changed to give a (very limited length) arbitrary screen message to the user...
    2. Oatcake

      Scraping TV text

      This is about a discovery that could lead to some new WebIF functionality, like being able to select a recording to play from the WebIF. This discussion started in another thread, but please make any further posts on this topic here.
    3. Oatcake

      Alternative to cropping out adverts

      Yes. It wouldn't play immediately, since the user would see the media list being (automatically) navigated on-screen in order to get to the desired recording. But the text grab could certainly be used for this purpose.
    4. Oatcake

      Alternative to cropping out adverts

      BTW if you're a tekky person considering exploration of any of these ideas then be mega careful about using LD_PRELOAD on the humaxtv process. It is very easy to enter a cycle of immediate crash-reboot! (Lol I know this from experience.) Use a script to make your preload a one-shot affair. I...
    5. Oatcake

      Alternative to cropping out adverts

      Thanks for that @/df ! Very useful info, and this still seems like a possible project. It has become a bit of a habit of mine to do some coding, usually related the Humax, over Christmas! I guess Suduko type puzzles, etc, don't interest me as much as coding. So another part of the reason for...
    6. Oatcake

      Alternative to cropping out adverts

      If I get some free time over Christmas I might nonetheless try some experiments to see if file position tracking is possible, for fun! 🤓
    7. Oatcake

      Alternative to cropping out adverts

      Thanks very much for the feedback. On the technical side, there are some very good points by @MymsMan and @Black Hole. There are certainly no guarantees that it's possible to implement. Actually it offers the following advantages over a crop... If the crop cuts out a vital part of a...
    8. Oatcake

      Alternative to cropping out adverts

      There's 3 possibilities that I can think of, but there may be more (I have not tried any of these)... Using LD_PRELOAD it should be possible to catch all calls to fopen, read, and seek calls. There's a version of "strace" on the humax, so maybe it can attach to the humaxtv process and keep...
    9. Oatcake

      Alternative to cropping out adverts

      This idea occurred to me while reading the thread "Detect Ads" (posts #36 and #37) regarding how to watch a programme after advert detection... actually crop out the adverts, possibly keeping the original in case of bad detection OR use the remote to manually skip to the bookmarks An...
    10. Oatcake

      [ir] webif screen keyboard control

      I often use a laptop to control my humax via the WebIf (using the ir package). For those who are not familiar please see the wiki page "WebIf_Remote_Controller" (I am not allowed to post a link) I've found it very useful to extend this screen with keyboard shortcuts. For example I've mapped...
    11. Oatcake

      OPT menu

      There's an alternative way to change this setting (at least on my older version of FF):- Type "about:config" in the address bar In the search box type "browser.zoom.full" Set it to "true"
    12. Oatcake

      OPT menu

      I have reproduced the problem (with FF45.5.1) by going to the menu toolbar and selecting "View->Zoom->Zoom Text Only" and then zooming in. NB: this does not happen (for me at least) if the "zoom text only" option is off.
    13. Oatcake

      Wouldn't it be nice if ...

      There's a good chance the details would be in the automatic schedule backup (unless the programme had only been entered into the schedule that day). To display the backup go to the Web-If "Scheduled Events" page, then press the "Backup/Restore Scheduled Recordings/Events" button. Select the most...
    14. Oatcake

      [rs] Improved conflict detection

      I wrote a perl script that generates the output shown below. If it would be useful I could send af123 the script in the hope it might speed up development of a timeline page in the WebIf. (The final output format could be different.) My script is written in perl and I run it from my laptop...
    15. Oatcake

      Force DLNA Index, Auto Decrypt, Auto Shrink

      I've tried the new code also. Decryption without DLNA indexing works brilliantly. Just a thought - now that you can force an entry into the DLNA database why not bypass the symbolic link idea and just force the actual video into the database? I haven't seen the immediate triggering of Auto...
    16. Oatcake

      Force DLNA Index, Auto Decrypt, Auto Shrink

      Let me elaborate on some of the potential problems I can foresee with TSR viewing, and why I think this might be a lot of work to turn it into a robust, slick TV viewing experience. Problem 1. It will be very tempting to watch near-live TV. Especially if you can hear your neighbour shouting...
    17. Oatcake

      Force DLNA Index, Auto Decrypt, Auto Shrink

      A kludge that avoids extra directories appearing in the Media list. Especially a directory that most people will never go into. Perhaps a tiered approach would be best, having a [cf] directory, and then under this we could have [cf]/Deleted Items ; [cf]/dlna helpers ; [cf]/whatever...
    18. Oatcake

      Force DLNA Index, Auto Decrypt, Auto Shrink

      Actually I won't bother posting my observations in the other thread, for they closely match those of MontysEvilTwin above! Just an additional thought: A quick test like this doesn't take very long to set up, but I get a strong feeling that turning this into a slick & robust viewing experience...
    19. Oatcake

      Force DLNA Index, Auto Decrypt, Auto Shrink

      Not strictly what this thread was originally about, but as promised I had a go at viewing the TSR via the media server. FYI: I found another thread on this site about TSR, so I'll post my observations in there shortly: http://hummy.tv/forum/threads/accessing-0-ts-remotely.2392/
    20. Oatcake

      Force DLNA Index, Auto Decrypt, Auto Shrink

      To update everyone - I have passed my code on to af123. No doubt it will be tested and probably improved (rewritten :-) before inclusion in the next release of webif so it may take some days for this to be done. But af123 does seem to be very speedy so who knows. FYI the code I wrote would have...
    1. Oatcake

      Scraping TV text

      I have managed to substitute one letter for another, but I don't think it's possible to change the length of the text that the Humax wants to display. So, for example, the sleep button's pop-up message could probably be changed to give a (very limited length) arbitrary screen message to the user...
    2. Oatcake

      Scraping TV text

      This is about a discovery that could lead to some new WebIF functionality, like being able to select a recording to play from the WebIF. This discussion started in another thread, but please make any further posts on this topic here.
    3. Oatcake

      Alternative to cropping out adverts

      Yes. It wouldn't play immediately, since the user would see the media list being (automatically) navigated on-screen in order to get to the desired recording. But the text grab could certainly be used for this purpose.
    4. Oatcake

      Alternative to cropping out adverts

      BTW if you're a tekky person considering exploration of any of these ideas then be mega careful about using LD_PRELOAD on the humaxtv process. It is very easy to enter a cycle of immediate crash-reboot! (Lol I know this from experience.) Use a script to make your preload a one-shot affair. I...
    5. Oatcake

      Alternative to cropping out adverts

      Thanks for that @/df ! Very useful info, and this still seems like a possible project. It has become a bit of a habit of mine to do some coding, usually related the Humax, over Christmas! I guess Suduko type puzzles, etc, don't interest me as much as coding. So another part of the reason for...
    6. Oatcake

      Alternative to cropping out adverts

      If I get some free time over Christmas I might nonetheless try some experiments to see if file position tracking is possible, for fun! 🤓
    7. Oatcake

      Alternative to cropping out adverts

      Thanks very much for the feedback. On the technical side, there are some very good points by @MymsMan and @Black Hole. There are certainly no guarantees that it's possible to implement. Actually it offers the following advantages over a crop... If the crop cuts out a vital part of a...
    8. Oatcake

      Alternative to cropping out adverts

      There's 3 possibilities that I can think of, but there may be more (I have not tried any of these)... Using LD_PRELOAD it should be possible to catch all calls to fopen, read, and seek calls. There's a version of "strace" on the humax, so maybe it can attach to the humaxtv process and keep...
    9. Oatcake

      Alternative to cropping out adverts

      This idea occurred to me while reading the thread "Detect Ads" (posts #36 and #37) regarding how to watch a programme after advert detection... actually crop out the adverts, possibly keeping the original in case of bad detection OR use the remote to manually skip to the bookmarks An...
    10. Oatcake

      [ir] webif screen keyboard control

      I often use a laptop to control my humax via the WebIf (using the ir package). For those who are not familiar please see the wiki page "WebIf_Remote_Controller" (I am not allowed to post a link) I've found it very useful to extend this screen with keyboard shortcuts. For example I've mapped...
    11. Oatcake

      OPT menu

      There's an alternative way to change this setting (at least on my older version of FF):- Type "about:config" in the address bar In the search box type "browser.zoom.full" Set it to "true"
    12. Oatcake

      OPT menu

      I have reproduced the problem (with FF45.5.1) by going to the menu toolbar and selecting "View->Zoom->Zoom Text Only" and then zooming in. NB: this does not happen (for me at least) if the "zoom text only" option is off.
    13. Oatcake

      Wouldn't it be nice if ...

      There's a good chance the details would be in the automatic schedule backup (unless the programme had only been entered into the schedule that day). To display the backup go to the Web-If "Scheduled Events" page, then press the "Backup/Restore Scheduled Recordings/Events" button. Select the most...
    14. Oatcake

      [rs] Improved conflict detection

      I wrote a perl script that generates the output shown below. If it would be useful I could send af123 the script in the hope it might speed up development of a timeline page in the WebIf. (The final output format could be different.) My script is written in perl and I run it from my laptop...
    15. Oatcake

      Force DLNA Index, Auto Decrypt, Auto Shrink

      I've tried the new code also. Decryption without DLNA indexing works brilliantly. Just a thought - now that you can force an entry into the DLNA database why not bypass the symbolic link idea and just force the actual video into the database? I haven't seen the immediate triggering of Auto...
    16. Oatcake

      Force DLNA Index, Auto Decrypt, Auto Shrink

      Let me elaborate on some of the potential problems I can foresee with TSR viewing, and why I think this might be a lot of work to turn it into a robust, slick TV viewing experience. Problem 1. It will be very tempting to watch near-live TV. Especially if you can hear your neighbour shouting...
    17. Oatcake

      Force DLNA Index, Auto Decrypt, Auto Shrink

      A kludge that avoids extra directories appearing in the Media list. Especially a directory that most people will never go into. Perhaps a tiered approach would be best, having a [cf] directory, and then under this we could have [cf]/Deleted Items ; [cf]/dlna helpers ; [cf]/whatever...
    18. Oatcake

      Force DLNA Index, Auto Decrypt, Auto Shrink

      Actually I won't bother posting my observations in the other thread, for they closely match those of MontysEvilTwin above! Just an additional thought: A quick test like this doesn't take very long to set up, but I get a strong feeling that turning this into a slick & robust viewing experience...
    19. Oatcake

      Force DLNA Index, Auto Decrypt, Auto Shrink

      Not strictly what this thread was originally about, but as promised I had a go at viewing the TSR via the media server. FYI: I found another thread on this site about TSR, so I'll post my observations in there shortly: http://hummy.tv/forum/threads/accessing-0-ts-remotely.2392/
    20. Oatcake

      Force DLNA Index, Auto Decrypt, Auto Shrink

      To update everyone - I have passed my code on to af123. No doubt it will be tested and probably improved (rewritten :-) before inclusion in the next release of webif so it may take some days for this to be done. But af123 does seem to be very speedy so who knows. FYI the code I wrote would have...
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