Hi,

After many hours of tinkering and searching - i have been unable to get TY files to work with media player.  I have found various posts where this works, but is anyone getting this to work with XP-SP2 and WMP v 9 or 10?

I keep getting WMP and windows crashes with every version of TyShow that is available...

thanks in advance to anyone who can help!

Ruben

First class instuctional set - much appreciated!

 Yog-Sothoth said: It looks as though you're trying to view encrypted shows. You can only view shows recorded after SuperPatch was applied.

Interesting comment - however- I just installed the superpatch this weekend and had no issues* viewing shows already recorded prior

*(at least while local on my home network - I'm having a remotely accessed problem but will report that elsewhere under networking)

I recently upgraded my directivo SDDVR40 using PTVNET6.2 and InstantCake 6.2. I followed the steps here and everything works, but I have odd artifacting at the top of my video streams. If I didn;t know better I'd say it is similar to VHS Macrovision copy protection. The distortion only seems to affect the first 10 lines or so, the rest is perfect. Any ideas as to what is going on here? Thanks!

Yog-Sothoth said: It looks as though you're trying to view encrypted shows. You can only view shows recorded after SuperPatch was applied.

I just read another thread that said I can view files with my HR10-250 without Superpatch.   I patched 4 bytes in tvbin, added tserver and can download files which end with extension *.ty  When I try to covert them (mux) to view with Windows Media Server, I get this error;-Cup of China.ty
Sorry... Failed to get the first 10 initial chunks...
Have to have at least that many to start the analysis phase...

 

What am I missing.

 

Thanks. I already have new shows unencripted with the echo command. I have tested it by successfully downloading and playing a new now showing donwloaded file with TyTool 10r4. I thought I had followed the guide correctly (as to setting up vserver), but when I do "ps | grep vserver". I do not see a process "/ptvupgrade/bin/vserver". I must have tripped up on setting up vserver.

Note - when I try to view, Windows Media Player opens, but does not play, then shuts down. I know I have everything at the computer end set up OK, as it streamed Ok recently with an earlier application (PTVupgrade application based on 3.1).

More... I can manually start vserver by telnetting " /ptvupgrade/bin/vserver &" at the bash prompt, aand then I can stream OK. I have re-visited the files to be edited - the paths appear ok (exactly the same as tserver (which is started up Ok, as I do not have to start tserver from within TyTool - it is already running when I open the tool). The tserver command was inserted at the end of the "...author" file, as was the vserver - same format. One starts, the other does not (?). I am guessing it is maybe some formatting quirk I am missing in that file.

I have done the steps and when I click view it is wanting me to save a ####.asx file. If I save it to my hard drive I can view it with windows media player but I get some crazy error first and then wmp asks if I really want to view the file if i say yes it does play but is this the way the view link is suppose to work? Thanks

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I followed the above steps exactly, and double and triple checked everything. Yet vserver still won't start. When i try to start it manually from Hackman it gives me a file does not exist. So i ftp to the tivo and check that the file is in the appropriate directory and sure enough it is right where it should be. The only thing i noticed was that the file extension is .c, dunno if that is an issu, just noticed it. Everthing but vserver appears to be functioning just as it should. And just to be sure the only file from the MLS archive i need is the vserver file correct?

thanks in advance,

David

To Opiewan above:

 Yes to .c is an issue - you want to load up the actual vserver file - not that one.

<p>
Ok, found the correct vserver file... copied it to the tivo rebooted and i get this when i click the Start button to&nbsp;start vserver...
</p>
<font size="4">Try re-generating and saving a fresh hackman.cfg<br />
(Create configuration file (hackman.cfg))<br />
</font><font size="4">
<hr />
<p>
bad switch &quot;--unavailable--&quot;: must be -keepnewline or --
</p>
</font>

I'm having a similar problem on a series 2 DTivo...I was able to get vserver running and was able to view shows off my Now Showing list when I was on my LAN, tried it as well going to the DNS link (still on my LAN though) and it worked.  Now that I'm trying remotely, WMP opens up as if it was going to start streaming, then it shuts itself down.

When I went to Hackman to troubleshoot, for some reason, I stopped vserver, now I can't get it to start again.

Please help!

JR 

According to Lou, "Hackman" has been removed from TWP. I never saw it, never used it.

Lou Jacob wrote:

http://www.dvrplayground.com/forum/thread/14146/HackMan-isn-t-listed-in-TivoWebPlus--main-web-page/ 

There were lots of issues with HackMan and its no longer included in the TWP 1.3.1 release.  We are not integrating it any longer because there are some very nasty things you can do to your drive with Hackman if you are not careful. 

Hackman can be a very useful and wonderful tool, and you may see it again in a later TWP release, but right now, if you want it you'd have to install it yourself and be very careful with it.

My question is as a newbie to Linux, what are the exact steps we can take to enable vserver?   Yog-Sothoth's article here (steps 9 thru 20) describes how to install the vserver  portion using Hackman, but My TWP does not have it ( I purchased PTV & Icake in late December 2006).  Can the "rc.sysinit.author" file be FTP'd out and edited with a windows based editor, then transferred back or can the article be re-written in such a way to include another editor?

http://www.dvrplayground.com/article/...

I am using a Phillips 704.  Everything else works great.

Thanks.