SageTVTranscoder Plugin

[Carlton Bale]

Originally Posted by w4rh4wk

gotcha... im running 1.7.0-79b15.... quick google search.. i see Version 8 Update 281... go with that one?

I was receiving the same error. Updating from Java 7 update 79 to Java 8 update 281 solved it for me as well. Thanks for the help!

[jvl711]

Originally Posted by phantomii

So, I am also interested in a Linux version of this as I built several Linux SageTV Servers and had to learn some Linux to do this and to support them. I am not a developer, but have done some minimal coding in a few languages over time on Windows systems. I do though have several old Desktop PC's around I suspect I could build into a Linux dev environment to maybe help this along??? If you could point me to what might be needed to set this up I would be willing to give it a try. Might crash and burn but I love to learn new stuff anyway. Maybe it would keep my mind busy and out of trouble???

Sorry for the late reply! If you look at this branch (https://github.com/jvl711/SageTVTran...tv_from_v4.3.1) in the github repo, that is where I am doing all of my current changes. I have a build script that I wrote. I am not sure what your experience level is, but let me know if you have questions about the script. The good news, is this is pretty much just ffmpeg, so there is a lot of resources on the internet on how to compile ffmpeg. They will all be relevant. I am a beginner C developer, so I am googling guessing my way thru this.

build.sh

I would like to make the build.sh script be able to handle win32/win64/linux and to create the xml files for the plugin. It is handling win32/win64 and xml currently.

Feel free to PM me if you want to discuss over email.

Thanks,
Josh

[Carlton Bale]

I had to uninstall this plugin. It breaks video playback in the SageTV Mobile Web Interface. The only way to playback recordings in iOS devices is through the Safari using the transcoder built-in to that plugin. This plugin requires Java 7 and is 32-bit only.

Is there a way to get both of these plugins to coexist?

[wayner]

Not directly answering your question but I use AirVideoHD to play back SageTV recordings in iOS. It is not a good UI as you are just selecting from filenames but it has stable playback. I don't know that AirVideoHD is still alive but it still works, at least for me.

For other SageTV content on iOS, like ripped movies or TV shows I use Plex. I run SageTV, Plex and AirVideoHD in dockers on my unRAID server. But they can all be run on Windows as well, and you can forward ports, or use a VPN, to access remotely.

[tvmaster2]

Originally Posted by Carlton Bale

I had to uninstall this plugin. It breaks video playback in the SageTV Mobile Web Interface. The only way to playback recordings in iOS devices is through the Safari using the transcoder built-in to that plugin. This plugin requires Java 7 and is 32-bit only.

Is there a way to get both of these plugins to coexist?

Wow, I thought I had done something wrong, but I think you nailed it: I too installed the transcoder, and it broke the Mobile Web/Remote interfaces. Rolled back my W7 install to prior transcoder plugin, and all working again.

[tvmaster2]

Originally Posted by wayner

Not directly answering your question but I use AirVideoHD to play back SageTV recordings in iOS. It is not a good UI as you are just selecting from filenames but it has stable playback. I don't know that AirVideoHD is still alive but it still works, at least for me.

For other SageTV content on iOS, like ripped movies or TV shows I use Plex. I run SageTV, Plex and AirVideoHD in dockers on my unRAID server. But they can all be run on Windows as well, and you can forward ports, or use a VPN, to access remotely.

Funny, I use AirVideoHD as well. Rock solid functionality. There were never great choices for Sage and iOS, it may have been the only one.
I wondered as well if it’s still alive - the author’s used to ask for money all the time for updates, and then they just stopped. Hopefully iOS updates won’t kill it, as it works really well remotely via DNS services when traveling...

[TGsell]

Agree -- Air video is a terrific IOS app.... grabs the Sage recordings without fail.

[jvl711]

Originally Posted by Carlton Bale

I had to uninstall this plugin. It breaks video playback in the SageTV Mobile Web Interface. The only way to playback recordings in iOS devices is through the Safari using the transcoder built-in to that plugin. This plugin requires Java 7 and is 32-bit only.

Is there a way to get both of these plugins to coexist?

I am going to assume that the Mobile Web Interface is passing a parameter to the SageTVTranscoder that is either deprecated, or that I am not properly supporting. Can you possibly see if there is something showing up in the SageTVTranscoder log when this issue occurs.

Thanks,
Josh