Hello Forum,
Firstly a massive thank you to @raydon and all the numerous contributors to the CF, it's brilliant.
I actually installed the CF back in 2012 and was delighted to have access to the box for retrieving my SD recordings, I then took my eye off the ball for a few years only to revisit again now, so you can imagine my excitement after installing CF 4.1.3 and all the new features.
So onto my question, everything has installed well and I have CH4 HD viewable in freesat mode. I have nowster's patch (nice one!) and with the convertfiles plug-in set to AUTO on boot I can then stream via Mediatomb to a TV in another room (Sony KDL-42W706B) without running the convertfiles the TV will not playback the stream.
However, What I have found (apologies if this has already been discussed) is that the convertfiles fails CH4 HD recordings, (I manually set CH4 HD recording from webif.)
e.g.
convert-ts.log...
Preparing to convert "/media/Video/Amy_20200611_2200.ts".
Unable to get status from .hmt file. Cannot continue.
after some poking around I found it was due to the empty synopsis field in the .hmt file, and to my delight there was a already a tool to fix it (thanks to @adrianf36 and @MofTot for the hmt tool) so I can set any string in the synopsis field and now convertfiles can successfully convert the file.
ssh to box..
Foxsat1/mnt/hd3/Video# hmt -p Amy_20200611_2200.hmt | cut -f2
Foxsat1/mnt/hd3/Video#
Foxsat1/mnt/hd3/Video# hmt +setsynopsis="singer-songwriter Amy Winehouse" Amy_20200611_2200.hmt
Foxsat1/mnt/hd3/Video# hmt -p Amy_20200611_2200.hmt | cut -f2
singer-songwriter Amy Winehouse
convertfiles now works ok !
I see that @Nathan back in 2018 #44 had also experienced this problem. So before I embark on creating a dodgey little script (maybe hook into the convertfiles script) to search and check for empty synopsis field and then populate with a dummy string or even a saved copy of the actual synopsis, would anyone consider fixing this slightly more elegantly ? I know it's a very small thing and the manual work around is dead easy thanks to the hmt tool (Was this why the +setsynopsis option was created ?)
Here's hoping I've posted this in the right place and not repeated something everyone already new....
Thanks and Regards, Jon.
Firstly a massive thank you to @raydon and all the numerous contributors to the CF, it's brilliant.
I actually installed the CF back in 2012 and was delighted to have access to the box for retrieving my SD recordings, I then took my eye off the ball for a few years only to revisit again now, so you can imagine my excitement after installing CF 4.1.3 and all the new features.
So onto my question, everything has installed well and I have CH4 HD viewable in freesat mode. I have nowster's patch (nice one!) and with the convertfiles plug-in set to AUTO on boot I can then stream via Mediatomb to a TV in another room (Sony KDL-42W706B) without running the convertfiles the TV will not playback the stream.
However, What I have found (apologies if this has already been discussed) is that the convertfiles fails CH4 HD recordings, (I manually set CH4 HD recording from webif.)
e.g.
convert-ts.log...
Preparing to convert "/media/Video/Amy_20200611_2200.ts".
Unable to get status from .hmt file. Cannot continue.
after some poking around I found it was due to the empty synopsis field in the .hmt file, and to my delight there was a already a tool to fix it (thanks to @adrianf36 and @MofTot for the hmt tool) so I can set any string in the synopsis field and now convertfiles can successfully convert the file.
ssh to box..
Foxsat1/mnt/hd3/Video# hmt -p Amy_20200611_2200.hmt | cut -f2
Foxsat1/mnt/hd3/Video#
Foxsat1/mnt/hd3/Video# hmt +setsynopsis="singer-songwriter Amy Winehouse" Amy_20200611_2200.hmt
Foxsat1/mnt/hd3/Video# hmt -p Amy_20200611_2200.hmt | cut -f2
singer-songwriter Amy Winehouse
convertfiles now works ok !
I see that @Nathan back in 2018 #44 had also experienced this problem. So before I embark on creating a dodgey little script (maybe hook into the convertfiles script) to search and check for empty synopsis field and then populate with a dummy string or even a saved copy of the actual synopsis, would anyone consider fixing this slightly more elegantly ? I know it's a very small thing and the manual work around is dead easy thanks to the hmt tool (Was this why the +setsynopsis option was created ?)
Here's hoping I've posted this in the right place and not repeated something everyone already new....
Thanks and Regards, Jon.
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