[j-christ]

It appears if you use the play/pause button and then try to play music it will not work (perhaps due to the digital output; i am using this option). however if you press the menu button to return to FR and then try and play some music this works fine.... i can't explain why but it just does!!

Yeppe!!!

Ok, if it works for you.... However, that doesn't sound like a good solution to me b/c if you press the menu button to return to FR it doesn't take you back to where you started, but to the main FR menu, no?

[shane]

It appears if you use the play/pause button and then try to play music it will not work (perhaps due to the digital output; i am using this option). however if you press the menu button to return to FR and then try and play some music this works fine.... i can't explain why but it just does!!

Yeppe!!!

Ok, if it works for you.... However, that doesn't sound like a good solution to me b/c if you press the menu button to return to FR it doesn't take you back to where you started, but to the main FR menu, no?

No,
It takes me back to where i left; i.e. the menu for the recorded TV program.

I have just tried changing the sound output from digital to system sound output and this appears to have resolved the issue as well...

[rachaelnex]

Just to say I've recently installed the new version of pyetv for Front Row and am utterly delighted to find a list of channels hiding in there. You may recall I asked you a while ago if this could be implemented because Front Row is accessible via VoiceOver, which speaks menu items for us visually impaired folks. I don't know if my request was in your mind or not when you put that feature in but thankyou anyway !
This means us blind bats can hear what we're doing with some parts of eyetv thanks to this plugin - as the eyetv software itself is not remotely compatible with VO.
So we have a list of recordings, and now channels, that VO can voice so we can select a channel and know which one it is rather than guessing, and we can hear which recording we are picking.
Thankyou kindly for putting this feature in. My attempts to get elgato to make their software VO compliant are proving hard going so this is an excellent stop gap. Now my fiance, who is totally blind, can use everything in eyetv but the program guide thanks to this plugin, and I don't have to be three inches away from the telly to use it either.

I guess most sighted people would wonder why someone of severe visual impairment would enjoy tv but we do, and we want to do all the stuff fully sighted people do with it too. Thanks for making that goal a little bit nearer.

Nice work !

[cotcase]

Hi - I have installed PyeTV on my mac mini running OSX 10.5.2 and Eyetv 3.0.2. However it does not work. I have run the installer script and also copied the frappliance file direct to the plugin location to no effect. The EyeTV frappliance shows up as a package and the other frappliance files are folders. I looked inside and removed the .pkginfo file and it then showed up as a folder but this made no difference.

Can you let me know how I can get it to work and what I may be doing wrong?

Thanks

[j-christ]

Hi - I have installed PyeTV on my mac mini running OSX 10.5.2 and Eyetv 3.0.2. However it does not work. I have run the installer script and also copied the frappliance file direct to the plugin location to no effect. The EyeTV frappliance shows up as a package and the other frappliance files are folders. I looked inside and removed the .pkginfo file and it then showed up as a folder but this made no difference.

Can you let me know how I can get it to work and what I may be doing wrong?

Thanks

I'm not sure what might have gone wrong---I've never had such a problem. Try deleting all references to PyeTV from the front row plugins directory before running the installer script?

[nigeltufnel]

Howdy j-christ,

Firstly, thank you very much for adding some wonderful functionality to the eyetv application. Even without the comskipping, I think Front Row integration is something a lot of us have been wanting for some time. Further, a visible recorded date, and the ability to Delete without jumping through 5 hoops first are big deals for me.

On my setup, I'm experiencing some odd behavior when trying to resume watching a paused program. When I press the Apple remote play button, the show pauses and the Front Row menu returns, as expected. Pressing Play again returns to the 'paused' program, where it sits waiting for another button press. I believe this is also normal behavior, correct? So then, I press Play again to resume watching, and instead of the video playing, it returns to the Front Row menu. This happens almost always. Very occasionally, the show does start playing again. Sometimes, when I press Play to return to eyetv from the Front Row menu, if I don't do anything- leaving the 'frozen' video sitting there, the system will return to the Front Row menu on it's own after 2-3 seconds. If anybody can help with this, I thank you very much in advance. My setup follows:

eMac G4 1.25 ghz 768 MB
Leopard 10.5.2
eyetv 3.0.1
pyetv 1.1

[cotcase]

Hi - I have installed PyeTV on my mac mini running OSX 10.5.2 and Eyetv 3.0.2. However it does not work. I have run the installer script and also copied the frappliance file direct to the plugin location to no effect. The EyeTV frappliance shows up as a package and the other frappliance files are folders. I looked inside and removed the .pkginfo file and it then showed up as a folder but this made no difference.

Can you let me know how I can get it to work and what I may be doing wrong?

Thanks

I'm not sure what might have gone wrong---I've never had such a problem. Try deleting all references to PyeTV from the front row plugins directory before running the installer script?

Thanks j-christ. I have reinstalled and all works well. I think it was always fine - just my inexperience in knowing what was actually going on. The etv-comskip menu options are there - one of the main things I was looking for. Your program is very useful and much appreciated.

[sherab108]

Great plugin!

Working great in 10.5.3 with 3.0.2.

Will this (PYTV) work in 10.4.11 as well?

[j-christ]

Great plugin!

Working great in 10.5.3 with 3.0.2.

Will this (PYTV) work in 10.4.11 as well?

No. Front Row for tiger is entirely different and doesn't have plugin support.

[sherab108]

I should have asked this at the same time...

But does the commercial skip work? I assume it does not matter if you have Leopard or Tiger for that one?


Thank you again for such a great thing!!!

[j-christ]

I should have asked this at the same time...

But does the commercial skip work? I assume it does not matter if you have Leopard or Tiger for that one?


Thank you again for such a great thing!!!

Yes. From the main etv-comskip page:

Installation

Download the appropriate version for your system 10.4 (Tiger) or 10.5 (Leopard).

[sherab108]

Comskip for 10,4 returns errors and quits for MigliaHDmini and Evolution TV..

Oh well...

[j-christ]

Any chance of porting this to the Apple TV?

(people have got EyeTV working on the Apple TV).

Thanks,

James.

Feel free, it's Open Source! I won't be able to do it myself; I don't have an Apple TV.

Dunno how easy it would be, as I've no idea how compatible the Apple TV Take 2 framework is with the Leopard version.

-Jon

[robbo007]

The first time I access Front Row on my MAC Mini and use the pyetv plugin everything works fine. Then if I close Front Row and go back in my apple remote does not work??

I've tried two different apple remotes and the batteries are good. Any ideas???

Also is there a way when you close Front Row with the menu button that EyeTv is closed?

Thanks,

Rob

[j-christ]

The first time I access Front Row on my MAC Mini and use the pyetv plugin everything works fine. Then if I close Front Row and go back in my apple remote does not work??

Are you using remote buddy or some other remote software? I've never seen this problem, although I'm not sure what you mean by "close Front Row"...you can back out of it via the Menu key to the desktop, but there's no close or quit option for Front Row itself.

Also is there a way when you close Front Row with the menu button that EyeTv is closed?

If you mean actually quitting EyeTV, no that won't be done b/c that's always problematic (recording or compacting may be in progress, etc). Several people have requested that EyeTV's window be closed when going back into Front Row (for various reasons). I'll probably do that for the next release (possibly as an option) b/c the only reason I can see not to do so is that the it makes the transition back into EyeTV uglier.

[robbo007]

Hello,

I'm not using any software other than Front Row, EyeTV 3.01 and PyeTv. What happens is if I reboot my Mini and then enter into Front Row for the First time it all seems to work. Then when I back out using the menu button and then go back into Front Row then apple remote does not seems to work correctly.

Very strange no?

[Priapus]

You are awesome! This is great work and much appreciated

Thank you for your helpfulness and humility in response to issues and requests. I hope you have the time to continue to refine this very useful plug-in. There are many of us out here who appreciate your work.

When I stumbled across this this I made the decision to buy a mac mini as a media centre. (Apple and Elgato owe you some commission)

[j-christ]

I'm a new user, and having some issues with pyetv, which I love having as part of front row.
I'm using remote buddy with my older ppc mac mini (leopard) so as to be able to use the apple remote.

The issue I have is once I am in front row, and click on eyetv (via pyetv) I can get to my recordings with no problem. I don't need the live eyetv window to open at this point (I've selected no live tv window in eyetv's prefs, but it opens anyway) as I just want to watch my recordings. But once I am watching a recording, I'm having trouble getting back to front row from eyetv. I just want to get back to the recordings list that pyetv provides in front row. Is there a problem because I'm using remote buddy?

Thanks for all your work. Pyetv goes a long way towards making front row a single media source.

I don't use remote buddy, so I can't tell if that's your problem, but this does not happen for me. When I choose a recording in the recordings list from FrontRow/PyeTV and choose Play, EyeTV opens that recording. If I want to go back to Front Row, I just press pause on the remote.

[elm42]

Hello,
I like to build a german version of the plugin. Therefore I try to build the plugin from the source code. The 'make real' stops with the following error.
Any suggestions what went wrong or what am I missing.
Thank you in advance,
Elmar

*** creating plugin bundle: EyeTV ***
creating /Users/elmar/test/pyetv/pyetv-read-only/dist/EyeTV.frappliance/Contents/Resources/English.lproj
copying English.lproj/InfoPlist.strings -> /Users/elmar/test/pyetv/pyetv-read-only/dist/EyeTV.frappliance/Contents/Resources/English.lproj
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/Extras/lib/python/py2app/build_app.py", line 570, in _run
self.run_normal()
File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/Extras/lib/python/py2app/build_app.py", line 641, in run_normal
self.create_binaries(py_files, pkgdirs, extensions, loader_files)
File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/Extras/lib/python/py2app/build_app.py", line 736, in create_binaries
target, arcname, pkgexts, copyexts, target.script)
File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/Extras/lib/python/py2app/build_app.py", line 1138, in build_executable
self.copy_file(src, dest)
File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/python2.5/distutils/cmd.py", line 376, in copy_file
dry_run=self.dry_run)
File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/python2.5/distutils/file_util.py", line 119, in copy_file
"can't copy '%s': doesn't exist or not a regular file" % src
DistutilsFileError: can't copy 'PyFR': doesn't exist or not a regular file
> /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/python2.5/distutils/file_util.py(119)copy_file()
-> "can't copy '%s': doesn't exist or not a regular file" % src

[Crimson]

This seems to be great plugin. I can't wait to have Mac Mini as media center.

5) internationalization. There are a fair number of non-english speaking users. i18n support in python is pretty easy.

Excellent! I could help with Finnish translation if you like.

[barnz]

So I've tried a couple of times to install PyeTV and get it working to no avail.
I have been using the Comskipper, which has been 90% working, so that's great!

But I can't get any joy from PyeTV.

My system:
OSX 10.5.4 running on a MacMini 2GHz Core 2 Duo, 4 GB RAM.
Eye TV 3.0.2 (3740) with EyeTV 250Plus tuner.

I've had the same ultimate experience both times I've installed PyeTV.

First sign of trouble is on the install, I get a warning that the EyeTV icon can't be found.
The first time I just went with it - the second time I decided hit cancel and bypass the installer, dropping the EyeTV frappliance into
/System/Library/CoreServices/Front Row.app/Contents/Plugins as JChrist had recommended to someone else.
(I did run the uninstall PyeTV script in between installation attempts, which removed EyeTV from my FrontRow menu list, but didn't seem to delete the frappliance from the plugins folder).

The usage results were the same both times. I get a FrontRow menu item for EyeTV (Without an icon). After some delay, presumably to start EyeTV, I can look at recordings, channels, etc. But when I try to launch a recording, or watch a channel, Frontrow exits, but doesn't do anything else. For example, if I enter FrontRow right now while I'm typing this, then try to play an EyeTV recording, FrontRow drops me off right back to my webbrowser where I'm typing this message. I'm presuming the intended function is to actually play the recording!

Is there anything else I can try to make this do something?