From david at spurgeonwoods.com  Sun Jun  4 23:31:40 2006
From: david at spurgeonwoods.com (David Woods)
Date: Sun, 4 Jun 2006 23:31:40 -0500
Subject: [Tapeworm] ANN: TapeWorm 1.1, Alpha 1
Message-ID: <005301c68858$f0dc0b10$6f01a8c0@David>

Hello all.

 

I'm pleased to announce the release of TapeWorm 1.1, Alpha 1, the first test
version of the next TapeWorm release.

 

New features include:

I've added a feature that's been referred to as "Myth-to-go" on the
MythTV-users mailing list.  You can select programs from your MythTV Server
and tell TapeWorm to make a local copy, which you can then take with you and
watch on the road, without needing to be connected to your MythTV Server.

I've added the ability to delete programs, both from the MythTV Server and
from the local copies.  I often like to delete a show as soon as I've
watched it, since I'm always critically low on disk space.  Now I can do it
from TapeWorm, instead of having to go to my MythTV box.

Third, I've made the system for launching the video player more flexible.
There are now three different methods of launching the media player to
choose from.  Each method has advantages and disadvantages, so now you can
select the one that works best for the way you like to watch your videos.
Among other things, this provides a solution for people who have spaces in
their video file names or video paths.

If you're interested, please see
http://tapeworm.spurgeonwoods.com/TapeWorm11Alpha1.htm.  This page describes
the new version and explains the configuration changes I made to support
these new features.

Enjoy, and please let me know (via this list) what you think of the changes.

David

 

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From fostandy at gmail.com  Tue Jun  6 21:54:34 2006
From: fostandy at gmail.com (Andy Foster)
Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2006 12:54:34 +1000
Subject: [Tapeworm] ANN: TapeWorm 1.1, Alpha 1
In-Reply-To: <005301c68858$f0dc0b10$6f01a8c0@David>
References: <005301c68858$f0dc0b10$6f01a8c0@David>
Message-ID: <83c4205d0606061954v3a1b1530t9bb931bb9d92294a@mail.gmail.com>

Hi David,

Just wanted to say thanks and good work once again. I've had a play
and everything works swell (the new launch methods are a big plus for
me)

I did notice while playing with the capture that if I captured a
single recording, deleted it and attempted to refresh the program list
on the server a dialog box came up with this error:

12:48:35: Couldn't retrieve information about list control item 0.
12:48:35: Couldn't retrieve information about list control item 0.
12:48:35: Couldn't retrieve information about list control item 0.
12:48:35: Couldn't retrieve information about list control item 0.
12:48:35: Couldn't retrieve information about list control item 0.

Things still seem to work fine though.

cheers
Andy



On 6/5/06, David Woods <david at spurgeonwoods.com> wrote:
>
>
>
>
> Hello all.
>
>
>
> I'm pleased to announce the release of TapeWorm 1.1, Alpha 1, the first test
> version of the next TapeWorm release.
>
>
>
> New features include:
>
> I've added a feature that's been referred to as "Myth-to-go" on the
> MythTV-users mailing list.  You can select programs from your MythTV Server
> and tell TapeWorm to make a local copy, which you can then take with you and
> watch on the road, without needing to be connected to your MythTV Server.
>
> I've added the ability to delete programs, both from the MythTV Server and
> from the local copies.  I often like to delete a show as soon as I've
> watched it, since I'm always critically low on disk space.  Now I can do it
> from TapeWorm, instead of having to go to my MythTV box.
>
> Third, I've made the system for launching the video player more flexible.
> There are now three different methods of launching the media player to
> choose from.  Each method has advantages and disadvantages, so now you can
> select the one that works best for the way you like to watch your videos.
> Among other things, this provides a solution for people who have spaces in
> their video file names or video paths.
>
> If you're interested, please see
> http://tapeworm.spurgeonwoods.com/TapeWorm11Alpha1.htm.
> This page describes the new version and explains the configuration changes I
> made to support these new features.
>
> Enjoy, and please let me know (via this list) what you think of the changes.
>
> David
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Tapeworm mailing list
> Tapeworm at spurgeonwoods.com
> http://mail.spurgeonwoods.com/mailman/listinfo/tapeworm_spurgeonwoods.com
>
>
>


From david at spurgeonwoods.com  Wed Jun  7 08:04:04 2006
From: david at spurgeonwoods.com (David Woods)
Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2006 08:04:04 -0500
Subject: [Tapeworm] ANN: TapeWorm 1.1, Alpha 1
In-Reply-To: <83c4205d0606061954v3a1b1530t9bb931bb9d92294a@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <003801c68a32$daeb7620$6501a8c0@David>

Andy,

Thanks for the feedback.  I'll bet that error comes up when you have deleted
the LAST entry from the Local list, but won't come up if you have several
items and just delete one.  I'll add code to detect that the list is empty
for the release.

IIRC, I got an e-mail from you that was one of the ones that prompted the
launch options.  I hope the explanations of the different methods don't make
it seem too confusing.

David



> Hi David,
> 
> Just wanted to say thanks and good work once again. I've had a play
> and everything works swell (the new launch methods are a big plus for
> me)
> 
> I did notice while playing with the capture that if I captured a
> single recording, deleted it and attempted to refresh the program list
> on the server a dialog box came up with this error:
> 
> 12:48:35: Couldn't retrieve information about list control item 0.
> 12:48:35: Couldn't retrieve information about list control item 0.
> 12:48:35: Couldn't retrieve information about list control item 0.
> 12:48:35: Couldn't retrieve information about list control item 0.
> 12:48:35: Couldn't retrieve information about list control item 0.
> 
> Things still seem to work fine though.
> 
> cheers
> Andy
> 
> 
> 
> On 6/5/06, David Woods <david at spurgeonwoods.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Hello all.
> >
> >
> >
> > I'm pleased to announce the release of TapeWorm 1.1, Alpha 1, the first
> test
> > version of the next TapeWorm release.
> >
> >
> >
> > New features include:
> >
> > I've added a feature that's been referred to as "Myth-to-go" on the
> > MythTV-users mailing list.  You can select programs from your MythTV
> Server
> > and tell TapeWorm to make a local copy, which you can then take with you
> and
> > watch on the road, without needing to be connected to your MythTV
> Server.
> >
> > I've added the ability to delete programs, both from the MythTV Server
> and
> > from the local copies.  I often like to delete a show as soon as I've
> > watched it, since I'm always critically low on disk space.  Now I can do
> it
> > from TapeWorm, instead of having to go to my MythTV box.
> >
> > Third, I've made the system for launching the video player more
> flexible.
> > There are now three different methods of launching the media player to
> > choose from.  Each method has advantages and disadvantages, so now you
> can
> > select the one that works best for the way you like to watch your
> videos.
> > Among other things, this provides a solution for people who have spaces
> in
> > their video file names or video paths.
> >
> > If you're interested, please see
> > http://tapeworm.spurgeonwoods.com/TapeWorm11Alpha1.htm.
> > This page describes the new version and explains the configuration
> changes I
> > made to support these new features.
> >
> > Enjoy, and please let me know (via this list) what you think of the
> changes.
> >
> > David
> >
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > Tapeworm mailing list
> > Tapeworm at spurgeonwoods.com
> >
> http://mail.spurgeonwoods.com/mailman/listinfo/tapeworm_spurgeonwoods.com
> >
> >
> >
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Tapeworm mailing list
> Tapeworm at spurgeonwoods.com
> http://mail.spurgeonwoods.com/mailman/listinfo/tapeworm_spurgeonwoods.com



From david at spurgeonwoods.com  Sun Jun 11 23:05:35 2006
From: david at spurgeonwoods.com (David Woods)
Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2006 23:05:35 -0500
Subject: [Tapeworm] ANN: TapeWorm 1.1 released.  Now with Myth-to-go!
Message-ID: <002c01c68dd5$762fc370$6501a8c0@David>

Greetings.

 

I'd like to take this opportunity to announce the release of TapeWorm,
version 1.1.

 

TapeWorm is a parasitic Windows Client for MythTV.  It allows users to watch
shows recorded on MythTV on networked Windows computers.  

 

Version 1.1 adds a feature that's been referred to on mythtv-users as
"Myth-to-go", the capacity to copy selected shows and their data to another
computer so you can take them with you on the road.

 

For more information, please see the TapeWorm Web Site at
http://tapeworm.spurgeonwoods.com <http://tapeworm.spurgeonwoods.com/> .  

 

David Woods

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From aovermy at yahoo.com  Thu Jun 15 01:23:35 2006
From: aovermy at yahoo.com (Amy Overmyer)
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 23:23:35 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [Tapeworm] Playing current watch tv files
Message-ID: <20060615062335.1231.qmail@web35805.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

Hi! I've been happily using Tapeworm for a couple days
now. It's working 
real well with MyHD which is a media player that can
use my MDP120 HD 
decoding card under windows. The linux mythtv box has
no permanent 
monitor or speakers connected to it, it's just meant
to capture. 
However, it would be neat to use the telnet remote
control feature that 
was added in 0.19 to start a Live TV capture and
change the channel to 
what I want to watch, then watch it with tapeworm
(admittedly this is 
more interesting for my laptop as the MyHD card also
captures HD from 
antenna for live tv purposes, it's DVR app is just
inadequate).

The problem I have with this is if I start a capture
then it just loops 
when it gets to the end where it was when I started
watching it, rather 
than continuing on.

Another problem I'm seeing is that after the first
configuration, when I 
try to configure Tapeworm, the app doesn't let me
change the player, I 
have to use regedit to do that.

Thanks for the toy though! It's very nice even without
these things.


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From david at spurgeonwoods.com  Thu Jun 15 08:23:00 2006
From: david at spurgeonwoods.com (David Woods)
Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2006 08:23:00 -0500
Subject: [Tapeworm] Playing current watch tv files
In-Reply-To: <20060615062335.1231.qmail@web35805.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <000a01c6907e$d51b8f30$45dc16ac@ad.education.wisc.edu>

> Hi! I've been happily using Tapeworm for a couple days now. It's working 
> real well with MyHD which is a media player that can use my MDP120 HD 
> decoding card under windows. The linux mythtv box has no permanent 
> monitor or speakers connected to it, it's just meant to capture. 
> However, it would be neat to use the telnet remote control feature that 
> was added in 0.19 to start a Live TV capture and change the channel to 
> what I want to watch, then watch it with tapeworm (admittedly this is 
> more interesting for my laptop as the MyHD card also captures HD from 
> antenna for live tv purposes, it's DVR app is just inadequate).

Interesting.  I'll look into it, though I'm not likely to have time in the
next month or so.  Work is really busy right now.

> The problem I have with this is if I start a capture then it just loops 
> when it gets to the end where it was when I started watching it, rather 
> than continuing on.

As I understand it, that's a limitation of the media player.  Some media
players can cope with files of changing size, others apparently see how long
a file is on startup and quit when they think the file should be over.  At
least I think I remember reading something along those lines on the
mythtv-users list a week ago or so.  I think mplayer might be worth looking
at in that regard, if it can handle your HD files.  

Anyway, it's not something that TapeWorm has control over.  TapeWorm just
launches the player and waits for it to quit.

> Another problem I'm seeing is that after the first configuration, when I 
> try to configure Tapeworm, the app doesn't let me change the player, I 
> have to use regedit to do that.

Hmmm.  I don't know what's up with that.  I can change the media player
command with no problem.  I'm not at home right now, so I can't check the
source code to see if I screwed something up.  I'll check it when I get
home.

> Thanks for the toy though! It's very nice even without
> these things.

You're welcome.  I'm glad you like it.

David



From Paul.bolton at ntlworld.com  Thu Jun 15 18:11:12 2006
From: Paul.bolton at ntlworld.com (Paul)
Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2006 00:11:12 +0100
Subject: [Tapeworm] Configuration Problems
Message-ID: <000601c690d1$001b1fa0$020aa8c0@rlz>

Hi 

I had tapeworm working fine with an older version but I wanted to use VLC so i downloaded the latest version but it wont save any configuration changes, the log file has the errors below:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "TapeWorm.py", line 854, in OnConfig
  File "os.pyo", line 159, in makedirs
OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory

Im not sure exactly what file it is looking for so hopefully someone can help me out here

Cheers
Paul
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From david at spurgeonwoods.com  Thu Jun 15 22:25:45 2006
From: david at spurgeonwoods.com (david at spurgeonwoods.com)
Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2006 22:25:45 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: [Tapeworm] Configuration Problems
Message-ID: <1623.64.251.143.81.1150428345.squirrel@spurgeonwoods.com>

> I had tapeworm working fine with an older version but I wanted to use VLC
> so i downloaded the latest version but it wont save any configuration
> changes, the log file has the errors below:
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "TapeWorm.py", line 854, in OnConfig
>   File "os.pyo", line 159, in makedirs
> OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
>
> Im not sure exactly what file it is looking for so hopefully someone can
> help me out here
>
> Cheers
> Paul_______________________________________________

Paul,

Make sure all three of the path lines, the ones with the Browse buttons,
are pointing to legitimate folders.  I'd guess you didn't specify a local
video path.  (Amy, this is likely also your issue.)

Thanks for the traceback.  You're the second person to report the error,
but this gives me the necessary clue I need to correct it.  Unfortunately,
I won't be able to fix it until Monday.

David


From david at spurgeonwoods.com  Sun Jun 18 22:02:35 2006
From: david at spurgeonwoods.com (David Woods)
Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2006 22:02:35 -0500
Subject: [Tapeworm] TapeWorm version 1.1.1 released
Message-ID: <000001c6934c$d146bf30$6501a8c0@David>

Hello all.

 

I have just released version 1.1.1 of TapeWorm.  It contains two bug fixes.
First, if you left the Local Video Directory blank on the configuration
screen, you couldn't save changes to the video player.  (I was never able to
actually recreate this bug, but think I figured it out based on user
feedback.  If not, please let me know ASAP!)  Second, if you changed the
local video directory from one that had files in it to a new one, you got an
odd error message that was uninformative and unnecessary.  That has been
eliminated.

 

If you've already contributed to Capital Candlelighters for a previous
version of TapeWorm, you do not need to contribute again for the upgrade.

 

David

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