Format Detector Plugin for SageTV

[trk2]

It failed for me as well, 32bit version.

Tue 6/23 16:12:38.277 [SageTV@1b5b450] CorePluginManager is checking plugin: mediaformatparserpluginwinx32 type: Standard version: 0.3 by: jvl711
Tue 6/23 16:12:38.277 [SageTV@1b5b450] Plugin mediaformatparserpluginwinx32 is enabled, try to load it from class: jvl.mediaformat.MediaFormatParserPlugin
Tue 6/23 16:12:38.278 [SageTV@1b5b450] ERROR plugin class does not implement the sage.SageTVPlugin interface so it will not be loaded
Tue 6/23 16:12:38.278 [SageTV@1b5b450] Loading of plugin mediaformatparserpluginwinx32 failed!

[jvl711]

Originally Posted by trk2

It failed for me as well, 32bit version.

I think I see the issue. It is putting a JAR folder inside the JAR folder... Let me try and fix.

Josh

[nyplayer]

Originally Posted by jvl711

I think I see the issue. It is putting a JAR folder inside the JAR folder... Let me try and fix.

Josh

Yep I see that ..

[jvl711]

Hi Guys,

Sorry about that. I did not see my mistake because of the manual install. Still had the jar file in the right location even though it was being placed in the wrong location by my plugin xml. Thanks for being my testers and catching the issues!!!

Could you please try again when you have a chance and let me know what you see.

[nyplayer]

Originally Posted by jvl711

Hi Guys,

Sorry about that. I did not see my mistake because of the manual install. Still had the jar file in the right location even though it was being placed in the wrong location by my plugin xml. Thanks for being my testers and catching the issues!!!

Could you please try again when you have a chance and let me know what you see.

It Installed ok for now I set debug to true .... Disable internal format detector to true .. disable parser plugin to false.

I guess this way it uses your parser.

I think if people choose to install your plugin then your parser should be on by default.

[jvl711]

Originally Posted by nyplayer

It Installed ok for now I set debug to true .... Disable internal format detector to true .. disable parser plugin to false.

I guess this way it uses your parser.

I think if people choose to install your plugin then your parser should be on by default.

The Disable Internal Format detector is for only .ps/.ts files. The way the code was written in SageTV is this.

1. Check for .ps/.ts files. If so use SageTV code to parse file
2. Check for other fomats sage can detect (I think it handles MP3 and some image formats)
3. If Sage can not parse use the external format detector

My plugin comes in at step 3, and replaces the external format detector that was there originally. If you disable the internal format detector it skips step one and uses my plugin for .ps/.ts file formats.

If it looks like my code is working better than the built in one we can look to make the option the default. My initial findings have been that mine is much faster than Sage at parsing .ps/.ts files.

Josh

[nyplayer]

Originally Posted by jvl711

The Disable Internal Format detector is for only .ps/.ts files. The way the code was written in SageTV is this.

1. Check for .ps/.ts files. If so use SageTV code to parse file
2. Check for other fomats sage can detect (I think it handles MP3 and some image formats)
3. If Sage can not parse use the external format detector

My plugin comes in at step 3, and replaces the external format detector that was there originally. If you disable the internal format detector it skips step one and uses my plugin for .ps/.ts file formats.

If it looks like my code is working better than the built in one we can look to make the option the default. My initial findings have been that mine is much faster than Sage at parsing .ps/.ts files.

Josh

I added an old library that I have with DIVX MP4 etc ... it appears they went through your parser but of course EXOPLAYER in the mini Clent cannot play these... I had to switch to FFMPEG in the mini Clent to play them.

[mechling-burgh]

Any chance of this working on unraid install in the future

[sacrament055]

Originally Posted by jvl711

Plugin is now available as a SageTV Plugin from the repository. It is under general and is named Media Format Parser Plugin Windows x32 and Media Format Parser Plugin Windows x64. Make sure to pick the right version for the SageTV Server you are running.

You may want to manually uninstall before you install the plugin. Otherwise the plugin installer will leave a lot of renamed files laying around.

Let me know if you guys see any issues.

Is there a way to manually disable the sagetv parser. (Is it just a modification of sage.properties?) I'm hesitant to update my Sage Server to 9.2.2 since it's been working so well I've just updated your plugin manually via the files in your github repository.

[trk2]

Originally Posted by jvl711

Hi Guys,

Sorry about that. I did not see my mistake because of the manual install. Still had the jar file in the right location even though it was being placed in the wrong location by my plugin xml. Thanks for being my testers and catching the issues!!!

Could you please try again when you have a chance and let me know what you see.

All good now.

[jvl711]

Originally Posted by sacrament055

Is there a way to manually disable the sagetv parser. (Is it just a modification of sage.properties?) I'm hesitant to update my Sage Server to 9.2.2 since it's been working so well I've just updated your plugin manually via the files in your github repository.

You can turn off the internal parser with the below property.

skip_internal_format_parser=false

I am exposing this property from the plugin. It was there all along, did not see it in the code.

[jvl711]

Originally Posted by mechling-burgh

Any chance of this working on unraid install in the future

Is this Linux x86_64? If so, than very possibly. I would like to see the interest from the community. If there are a few people I will work on building the C portion in Linux. So far I think you are the first to ask.

Josh

[KeithAbbott]

Originally Posted by jvl711

Is this Linux x86_64? If so, than very possibly. I would like to see the interest from the community. If there are a few people I will work on building the C portion in Linux. So far I think you are the first to ask.

Josh

I have an unRAID setup, and have been following this thread. However, I almost exclusively use HD300 extenders, so I’m not really sure if this would buy me anything.

[wayner]

Originally Posted by KeithAbbott

I have an unRAID setup, and have been following this thread. However, I almost exclusively use HD300 extenders, so I’m not really sure if this would buy me anything.

Me too, although I use both HD300 and HD200 extenders.

[jvl711]

Originally Posted by KeithAbbott

I have an unRAID setup, and have been following this thread. However, I almost exclusively use HD300 extenders, so I’m not really sure if this would buy me anything.

It can do a few things for you.

1. Identify more codecs that SageTV does natively identify. There are a handful of ones that HD300 playback that the parser did not. Granted, this is really only informational
2. It can increase channel change speed for live TV. It parses the files a bit quicker than SageTV native code does
3. Forced subtitle support. This is the only parser that identifies forced subtitles. (This was the main reason I created this)

For non HD300, this adds some information support for 4k files.

Josh

[KeithAbbott]

Originally Posted by jvl711

It can do a few things for you.

1. Identify more codecs that SageTV does natively identify. There are a handful of ones that HD300 playback that the parser did not. Granted, this is really only informational
2. It can increase channel change speed for live TV. It parses the files a bit quicker than SageTV native code does
3. Forced subtitle support. This is the only parser that identifies forced subtitles. (This was the main reason I created this)

For non HD300, this adds some information support for 4k files.

Josh

So I can definitely see a benefit to increasing the channel change speed. The forced subtitle support would be nice, although I’m not sure how frequently forced subtitles are present. Identifying additional codecs, it’s not clear to me if the HD300 would be able to playback files that previously it could not. I’m not quite following your statement about it being only informational.

[wayner]

I think by information he means that it gives you info about the video format but it doesn't give you the funcationality to play them back.

[JREkiwi]

Josh, finally had time to do some PD on an issue I am having.

With your code .avi files on my HD300 are displaying with 0 length and black video, but they do play the audio from the file

With the SageTV inbuilt they play fine

sample MediaInfo

Format                                   : AVI
Format/Info                              : Audio Video Interleave
File size                                : 232 MiB
Duration                                 : 29 min 7 s
Overall bit rate mode                    : Variable
Overall bit rate                         : 1 115 kb/s
Writing application                      : VirtualDubMod 1.5.10.2 (build 2540/release)
Writing library                          : VirtualDubMod build 2540/release

Video
ID                                       : 0
Format                                   : MPEG-4 Visual
Format profile                           : Advanced Simple@L5
Format settings                          : BVOP2
Format settings, BVOP                    : 2
Format settings, QPel                    : No
Format settings, GMC                     : No warppoints
Format settings, Matrix                  : Default (H.263)
Muxing mode                              : Packed bitstream
Codec ID                                 : XVID
Codec ID/Hint                            : XviD
Duration                                 : 29 min 7 s
Bit rate                                 : 971 kb/s
Width                                    : 640 pixels
Height                                   : 352 pixels
Display aspect ratio                     : 16:9
Frame rate                               : 25.000 FPS
Color space                              : YUV
Chroma subsampling                       : 4:2:0
Bit depth                                : 8 bits
Scan type                                : Progressive
Compression mode                         : Lossy
Bits/(Pixel*Frame)                       : 0.172
Stream size                              : 202 MiB (87%)
Writing library                          : XviD 1.2.1 (UTC 2008-12-04)

Audio
ID                                       : 1
Format                                   : MPEG Audio
Format version                           : Version 1
Format profile                           : Layer 3
Format settings                          : Joint stereo
Codec ID                                 : 55
Codec ID/Hint                            : MP3
Duration                                 : 29 min 7 s
Bit rate mode                            : Variable
Bit rate                                 : 128 kb/s
Channel(s)                               : 2 channels
Sampling rate                            : 48.0 kHz
Frame rate                               : 41.667 FPS (1152 SPF)
Compression mode                         : Lossy
Stream size                              : 27.3 MiB (12%)
Alignment                                : Aligned on interleaves
Interleave, duration                     : 24  ms (0.60 video frame)
Interleave, preload duration             : 512  ms
Writing library                          : LAME3.90.
Encoding settings                        : -m j -V 4 -q 2 -lowpass 17.6 --abr 128

John

[sacrament055]

Originally Posted by JREkiwi

Josh, finally had time to do some PD on an issue I am having.

With your code .avi files on my HD300 are displaying with 0 length and black video, but they do play the audio from the file

With the SageTV inbuilt they play fine

sample MediaInfo

Format                                   : AVI
Format/Info                              : Audio Video Interleave
File size                                : 232 MiB
Duration                                 : 29 min 7 s
Overall bit rate mode                    : Variable
Overall bit rate                         : 1 115 kb/s
Writing application                      : VirtualDubMod 1.5.10.2 (build 2540/release)
Writing library                          : VirtualDubMod build 2540/release

Video
ID                                       : 0
Format                                   : MPEG-4 Visual
Format profile                           : Advanced Simple@L5
Format settings                          : BVOP2
Format settings, BVOP                    : 2
Format settings, QPel                    : No
Format settings, GMC                     : No warppoints
Format settings, Matrix                  : Default (H.263)
Muxing mode                              : Packed bitstream
Codec ID                                 : XVID
Codec ID/Hint                            : XviD
Duration                                 : 29 min 7 s
Bit rate                                 : 971 kb/s
Width                                    : 640 pixels
Height                                   : 352 pixels
Display aspect ratio                     : 16:9
Frame rate                               : 25.000 FPS
Color space                              : YUV
Chroma subsampling                       : 4:2:0
Bit depth                                : 8 bits
Scan type                                : Progressive
Compression mode                         : Lossy
Bits/(Pixel*Frame)                       : 0.172
Stream size                              : 202 MiB (87%)
Writing library                          : XviD 1.2.1 (UTC 2008-12-04)

Audio
ID                                       : 1
Format                                   : MPEG Audio
Format version                           : Version 1
Format profile                           : Layer 3
Format settings                          : Joint stereo
Codec ID                                 : 55
Codec ID/Hint                            : MP3
Duration                                 : 29 min 7 s
Bit rate mode                            : Variable
Bit rate                                 : 128 kb/s
Channel(s)                               : 2 channels
Sampling rate                            : 48.0 kHz
Frame rate                               : 41.667 FPS (1152 SPF)
Compression mode                         : Lossy
Stream size                              : 27.3 MiB (12%)
Alignment                                : Aligned on interleaves
Interleave, duration                     : 24  ms (0.60 video frame)
Interleave, preload duration             : 512  ms
Writing library                          : LAME3.90.
Encoding settings                        : -m j -V 4 -q 2 -lowpass 17.6 --abr 128

John

I'm seeing the same behavior on a SageTV Client and Android app

AVI and I believe .MOV was behaving the same. Both play but show 0 length so you can't fastforward or rewind but you can watch

[mechling-burgh]

I would like to see it added for linux / unraid group. especially if you plan on trying to add the ffmpeg for transcoding later.