Thread: Announce: Knots - a video streaming app for non-windows users
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ukki is offline ukki
2008-10-13 , 19:38
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Originally Posted by luca View Post
Another couple of things:
  • it chokes with channels with an & in the name (streamdev correctly escapes them with & )
  • I don't like to see individual vdr files (I know nothing about perl but I added something to mediaserv to show a single recording, I know even less about ruby though, so I won't do it)
  • not a problem with knots (maybe vlc, I don't know), but it's easily fooled if a recording changes aspect ratio, it seems it decides it based on the beginning of the recording. This somewhat spoils my recordings of the avengers on bbc4 (they're 4:3 but the preceding programme is 16:9)

Since it cannot parse channels.conf, I cannot say how it manages live-view.

Does it handle dvb subtitles either/or with live view/recordings?
Yes, I pretty much knew it wouldn't go through the xml-parser, but I'll add entity escape so it has a better shot at it. I'd need to parse the html myself for better results. But I can work on that. Don't lose your hope yet

I tried adding all recording files to a playlist, but it still stops the streaming when it changes it so it's pretty much useless. It's not that annoying to select the 001.vdr and 002.vdr imo

As for the aspect ratio, that's a VLC thing. Maybe you can make a different transcode profile for those?

If streamdev-server shows the subtitles, then they work with knots. It just streams the http stream through VLC.

Did VDR metadata show up ok?

EDIT: Try updating the server and see where it stops next. Can you contact me some other way with these vdr issues?
Last edited by ukki; 2008-10-13 at 19:49.
 

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