[ANNOUNCE] TVH Plugin - TVHeadend integration

[MichaelPr]

Hi Andrew,

I just had an idea for a feature request using TVH. Quiet a lot of TV channels using different audio tracks for additional features like AD - a mixture or a combination of the film sound and a descriptive commentary is sent on this audio description (AD) sound channel.

With the possibility of choose this AD audio channel, a movie played via LMS would be like an audio book.

Do you think it is possible to add a feature to dicide between different audio tracks?

[CodeChimp]

Hi Andrew,

I just had an idea for a feature request using TVH. Quiet a lot of TV channels using different audio tracks for additional features like AD - a mixture or a combination of the film sound and a descriptive commentary is sent on this audio description (AD) sound channel.

With the possibility of choose this AD audio channel, a movie played via LMS would be like an audio book.

Do you think it is possible to add a feature to dicide between different audio tracks?

I've not seen any option in the TVH API's to list audio channels, I think that would be down to parsing the audio stream somehow and getting the detail out, I just pass the stream straight to LMS to play so don't think that would be possible, by me at least.

[MichaelPr]

I've not seen any option in the TVH API's to list audio channels

That's a pity! So, we have to convince the TVH people to expand their API - I guess a hopeless undertaking, as there is almost no development anymore...

[nibblerrick]

Hi,

thanks for another neat plugin for LMS!
I tried to install it but it fails to load:

[21-10-10 16:08:06.8273] Slim::bootstrap::tryModuleLoad (286) Warning: Module [Plugins::TVH::Plugin] failed to load:
"isdual" is not exported by the Scalar::Util module
Can't continue after import errors at C:\ProgramData\Squeezebox\Cache\InstalledPlugins/Plugins/TVH/API.pm line 18
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at C:\ProgramData\Squeezebox\Cache\InstalledPlugins/Plugins/TVH/API.pm line 20.
Compilation failed in require at C:\ProgramData\Squeezebox\Cache\InstalledPlugins/Plugins/TVH/Plugin.pm line 11.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at C:\ProgramData\Squeezebox\Cache\InstalledPlugins/Plugins/TVH/Plugin.pm line 11.
Compilation failed in require at (eval 1914) line 2.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at (eval 1914) line 2.

[21-10-10 16:08:06.8279] Slim::Utils::PluginManager::load (323) Error: Couldn't load Plugins::TVH::Plugin

This is on an LMS 8.2.0 on a Windows Server 2008 R2.
I spun up the LMS docker container and there it runs flawless.

Is there anything that can be done to solve that?
(Yes, of course, migrate your install to linux - and that will happen at some point. However, this LMS runs on this server since it was installed more than 10 years ago, so it has done a good job for quite some time...)
If not or only with much effort it's fine if not.

And yes, it's a pity that there is almost no developement at TVH, another system which is doing a great job for quite a while here.

[Paul Webster]

That feels like a Perl problem .. with the module being very old (isdual was included from since version 1.26 of Scalar::Utils and current on CPAN is 1.55).
However, I could not find that Perl module on my LMS installation so maybe it is hidden inside something else with a non-obvious name.

Anyway - assuming your are running the official lms .exe file and not a home-brew using a local Perl installation then I suggest trying 8.2.1 from the nightlies to see if it fixes it by magic.

[nibblerrick]

Hi,

8.2.1 hasn't helped. What I found though was that the docker instance is 8.2.0, too - but has Perl version 5.32.1. Windows has 5.14.1. I found now some threads that LMS on Windows is stuck on Perl 5.14.
So could that be the problem that 5.14 just won't do? On https://perldoc.perl.org/Scalar::Util#isdual it says "since version 1.26". Maybe that's the culprit then?

Thanks

[nibblerrick]

So it seems it's the a little old Perlversion is the problem and it's time to move my LMS from Win to Linux, right?

[Eyerex]

Hello just wondered could access to recordings be added so you can playback any radio recoding's ?