Kmttg Changelog

What's new in Kmttg 2.4p

Mar 31, 2021

FIXES:
Fix to VideoRedo qsfix.vbs and adcut.vbs scripts for VideoRedo version 6. Previously was directing VRD to output Transport Stream mux for mpeg2 program stream files.
New RPC certificate and password.

New in Kmttg 2.4o (Oct 22, 2019)

New in Kmttg 2.4n (Sep 20, 2019)

New in Kmttg 2.4m (Jul 15, 2019)

New in Kmttg 2.2t (Apr 24, 2017)

New in Kmttg 2.2r (Apr 8, 2017)

New in Kmttg 2.2q (Feb 24, 2017)

New in Kmttg 2.2p (Feb 21, 2017)

New in Kmttg 2.2o (Feb 16, 2017)

New in Kmttg 2.2n (Jan 31, 2017)

New in Kmttg 2.2l (Dec 28, 2016)

New in Kmttg 2.2k (Dec 28, 2016)

New in Kmttg 2.2j (Nov 26, 2016)

New in Kmttg 2.2h (Nov 12, 2016)

New in Kmttg 2.2g (Nov 9, 2016)

New in Kmttg 2.2f (Nov 9, 2016)

New in Kmttg 2.2e (Oct 30, 2016)

New in Kmttg 2.2d (Oct 24, 2016)

ENHANCEMENTS:
Right mouse button menu entry Play in AutoSkip mode (bindkey z) added for RPC enabled TiVos. The bindkey already existed in previous releases, this adds menu entry for it as a reminder the functionality is available. For table entries that have AutoSkip data available this will start playback of the show on your TiVo in AutoSkip mode for hands free automatic commercial skipping.
Right mouse button menu entry Import AutoSkip cuts (bindkey c) added for RPC enabled TiVos. The bindkey already existed in previous releases, this adds menu entry for it as a reminder the functionality is available. This allows you to import cuts from other people to AutoSkip table. Consult SkipShareImport kmttg Wiki for details.
A new NPL table right mouse button menu entry called AutoSkip from SkipMode (bindkey v) will be displayed for TiVos that support SkipMode:
The goal of this command is to automatically obtain commercial cut points based on TiVo SkipMode data.
This will only work if the SKIP icon is shown for the NPL entry you are running it on, indicating that TiVo SkipMode data exists for the show.
IMPORTANT: This command will simulate various remote button presses to your TiVo to obtain show segment start points, and thus should not be run if you don't want to disrupt anybody currently watching that TiVo.
Show segment start points are discovered by skipping to end of show, then using repeated "Channel Down" presses to cycle through all SkipMode show segment start points. This information in conjunction with segment lengths obtained from SkipMode data is used to compute cut points.
Once cut points are computed kmttg automatically adds an AutoSkip entry to kmttg AutoSkip table.
Once an AutoSkip table entry exists (indicated by S in NPL table) you can choose Play in AutoSkip mode menu entry (bindkey z) to start playback of the show in AutoSkip mode for hands free automatic commercial skipping.
You can also use Export AutoSkip cuts menu entry (bindkey e) to export the cut points to a VideoRedo project file or edl cut file which you can be used with the Ad Cut task to cut out auto-detected commercials.
NPL table right mouse button menu entry Export AutoSkip to VPrj changed to Export AutoSkip cuts:
Will export cuts to VideoRedo project file if VideoRedo is enable, else will export cuts to edl file.
For VideoRedo project file creation, .mpg or .ts file will be used as reference video file if either exists, else .TiVo file will be used whether or not it exists.
Added Select Repeats button to Remote--ToDo tab:
Purpose is to search for and select ToDo table entries considered to be repeats of each other.
Currently an entry is considered a repeat if it meets one of following criteria:
Has exact same title and subtitle as a ToDo entry scheduled to record before it
These selected entries can then be unscheduled using the Cancel button if desired.
This is aimed primarily at dealing with poor Rovi guide data for Sports recordings which leads to TiVo scheduling multiple repeats of the same show such as for a auto-record wishlist for a sporting event.

New in Kmttg 2.2b (Oct 1, 2016)

New in Kmttg 2.2a (Oct 1, 2016)

New in Kmttg 2.1x (Aug 29, 2016)

New in Kmttg 2.1v (Aug 15, 2016)

New in Kmttg 2.1u (Jul 9, 2016)

New in Kmttg 2.1t (Jul 5, 2016)

New in Kmttg 2.1s (May 22, 2016)

New in Kmttg 2.1r (May 4, 2016)

New in Kmttg 2.1q (Apr 11, 2016)

New in Kmttg 2.1p (Apr 2, 2016)

New in Kmttg 2.1o (Mar 24, 2016)

New in Kmttg 2.1m (Mar 12, 2016)

New in Kmttg 2.1k (Feb 29, 2016)

New in Kmttg 2.1j (Feb 17, 2016)

New in Kmttg 2.1i (Feb 17, 2016)

New in Kmttg 2.1h (Feb 17, 2016)

New in Kmttg 2.1f (Feb 17, 2016)

New in Kmttg 2.1e (Feb 17, 2016)

New in Kmttg 2.1d (Feb 17, 2016)

New in Kmttg 2.1c (Feb 17, 2016)

New in Kmttg 2.1b (Feb 17, 2016)

New in Kmttg 2.1a (Feb 17, 2016)

New in Kmttg 1.1o (May 13, 2015)

New in Kmttg 1.1n (Apr 20, 2015)

New in Kmttg 1.1m (Apr 14, 2015)

New in Kmttg 1.1l (Mar 31, 2015)

New in Kmttg 1.1k (Mar 31, 2015)

ENHANCEMENTS:
Streaming only titles from Search table can now be added as bookmarks to TiVo My Shows using the Record button.
Titles can be any type of streaming content: movies, episodic shows or even currently unavailable shows.
Added Include unavailable option to Remote->Search tab which if enabled signifies to include content currently not available in guide data.
This is useful for example to search for a series that will be airing in the future. If found you are able to create a Season Pass with "All Channels" setting even though there is no guide data for it yet.
Season Pass Options form enhancements (for One Pass related fields):
Now includes Channel and Get in HD options.
The Start From cyclic a few seconds after bringing up the form will now show proper available season or year range
Added brand new Remote sub-tab called Streaming which can be used to display all streaming-only related My Shows entries for a selected series 4 or later TiVo.
For streaming only One Passes the table entries will show up as folder types, and you can push into the folder to get a list of all associated episodes. NOTE: This will always display all episodes for the associated Streaming One Pass setup. It will not filter out entries you may have removed on the TiVo itself inside the One Pass folder.
One Pass items (such as Streaming Movie items) can be removed by selecting entries in the table and using Remove button in this tab.
Note that folder entries which represent Streaming One Pass entries can also be removed by selecting them and using Remove button. This is accomplished by unsubscribing the corresponding Streaming One Pass entries.
Added brand new Remote sub-tab called Thumbs which can be used to display all thumbs ratings for selected TiVo.
Similiar to Season Passes, you can save thumbs ratings for a TiVo to a file as a backup, useful when planning on transferring thumbs to a new TiVo.
You can load a saved Thumbs file and then copy all saved thumbs to a series 4 or later TiVo. You can also use loaded thumbs files to copy thumbs ratings from 1 TiVo to another.
Each RATING column of a Thumbs table can be modified (to a value between -3 and 3). You can change as many rows as you like and once ready use the Modify button to save the changes to the TiVo. A thumb value of 0 means remove the thumb rating from the TiVo.
Added little known Search table functionality available as ctrl-s keyboard shortcut to right mouse popup menus of most tables.
Added new Thumbs Rating to relevant Remote table right mouse button popup menus (ctrl-t keyboard shortcut). This can be used to set or change thumbs rating for currently selected show in a table.
When creating a season pass from kmttg, a thumb rating of 1 is now automatically given to a series if thumb rating does not already exist for that show.
CHANGES:
Byte offset needed for "Resume Downloads" to work is now estimated when using RPC for obtaining My Shows list of programs which only provides a time offset. The estimate is based on (time offset)*size/duration. The estimate is better than having no number at all and hence not allowing "Resume Downloads" to be used when RPC is enabled for obtaining My Shows.

New in Kmttg 1.1j (Mar 3, 2015)

New in Kmttg 1.1i (Jan 10, 2015)

New in Kmttg 1.1h (Nov 25, 2014)

New in Kmttg 1.1g (Nov 10, 2014)

New in Kmttg 1.1f (Nov 3, 2014)

ENHANCEMENTS:
Added new EXPERIMENTAL web server capability.
Under configuration there is a new Web tab where you can enable web server capability.
Adds video streaming capability to browsers supporting HLS (Safari, iOS Safari, 4.x Android Chrome). Note that this is still in early stages and may not be fully functional on various devices. I only tested on iPad Air.
Video streaming directly from series 4+ TiVos is also supported, but only works for unprotected programs (without CCI byte) that can be downloaded, since it downloads the show from the TiVo and decrypts + transcodes on the fly.
At least for iOS there are apps that let you save video links locally to your device. One example is Video Downloader from Appsneon. There are likely others and some for Android platform as well. This provides a way to save videos prepared via kmttg web server to your device for offline viewing.
Extends some of the kmttg Remote capabilities to any device with a web browser, such as iOS and Android devices. The current functionality available is limited and more just proof of concept and may be extended over time.
A fully functional virtual remote is available to extend remote to any device with a web browser.
If you setup port forwarding in your router then you can extend this functionality to outside the home so you can have access to the functionality from anywhere.
TiVos listed in web server mode are intentionally restricted to series 4 and later only (that support RPC functionality).
Added keyboard shortcuts for TiVo Remote buttons:
Jump to minute - Alt m
Skip minutes back - Alt ,
Skip minutes ahead - Alt .
Added Vudu (html) launch point to virtual remote.
CHANGES:
Default Use Java for downloads instead of curl option to be on for new kmttg installations since latest Mac OS no longer works with curl.
For RPC reboot function, changed sleep time from 3 to 5 seconds for sending thumbs down button presses to perhaps aid in preventing lockups for units slow to bring up the reboot screen.
When Resume Downloads is enabled and .TiVo file already exists the resume download target is renamed to (2).TiVo suffix. (Similar for .mpg for combined download/decrypt option).
TiVo 20.4.5 software update changed platform name for embedded Stream, so Bonjour discovery was falsely picking it up as another TiVo. With this update, Stream broadcasts are now ignored again.

New in Kmttg 1.1e (Oct 18, 2014)

New in Kmttg 1.1d (Oct 3, 2014)

New in Kmttg 1.1c (Aug 25, 2014)

New in Kmttg 1.1b (Jul 28, 2014)

New in Kmttg 1.1a (Jun 16, 2014)

New in Kmttg 1p0t (Jun 2, 2014)

New in Kmttg 1p0s (May 12, 2014)

New in Kmttg 1p0r (Apr 12, 2014)

New in Kmttg 1p0q (Mar 4, 2014)

New in Kmttg 1p0p (Feb 4, 2014)

New in Kmttg 1p0m (Jan 28, 2014)

ENHANCEMENTS:
Added configuration option under Program Options called Use RPC to get NPL when possible.
When this option is enabled, kmttg will use RPC calls for series 4 and later units to obtain NPL listings instead of the traditional html/XML calls.
This avoids the traditional double step of playlist task followed by remote task for obtaining listings, so should be faster than that 2 step process.
Note that RPC data does NOT contain SeriesId information, so if that field is important to you in pyTivo metadata file then you should not enable this function. Otherwise the information should be largely the same as XML listings data, but more closely matches what HDUI shows.
This new option is off by default, so if interested in using it you should enable it after installing/upgrading to this release.
Added configuration option under File Settings called QS Fix Output Dir to set the directory to output temporary .qsfix files. Defaults to .mpg output directory if not modified.
Added configuration option under File Settings called Check download duration which if enabled will use MediaInfo CLI to determine duration of TiVo downloads and compare vs expected duration. If actual vs expected differ by more than a 200 second tolerance then kmttg will treat the download as failed.
You must have kmttg configured for Mediainfo CLI for this to work.
This option is not enabled by default.
For Auto Transfers mode, now only TiVos that are relevant to auto transfers entry setup are processed instead of every TiVo. i.e. For example, if your auto transfers setup only has entries that are restricted to 1 particular TiVo, then only that TiVo will be queried. Previously all NPL capable TiVos were queried as part of Auto Transfers whether they were needed or not.
Added Export button to NPL tab for each TiVo which can be used to export NPL entries to CSV spreadsheet file.
NOTE: The table will be exported as it is displayed with current column order, sorting, and folders.
Added Export button to Remote ToDo tab which can be used to export a TiVo's ToDo list to CSV spreadsheet file.
FIXES:
With Allow only 1 download at a time option enabled there were circumstances where more than 1 download at a time could happen which has been corrected.
For auto transfers with second encode job enabled and "metadata" task enabled, a metadata file will be created for the second encoded file as well as the first. Previously the second encode file would not get an associated metadata file.
For NPL tables fixed CHANNEL row sorting such that it properly sorts by channel number.
User provided general fix for linux/unix system free space check.

New in Kmttg 1p0l (Jan 6, 2014)

New in Kmttg 1p0k (Dec 16, 2013)

New in Kmttg 1p0j (Nov 19, 2013)

New in Kmttg 1p0i (Oct 25, 2013)

New in Kmttg 1p0h (Oct 18, 2013)

ENHANCEMENTS:
Added new Search++ button to Remote Search tab which can be used for complex search operations:
This roughly matches wishlist capabilities possible via TiVos using simple or complex boolean search criteria. Complex searches can include OR, AND, NOT booleans and wildcards.
Also adds capability of restricting matches to a given list of channels or favorite channels only which is not possible via TiVo wishlists.
Search criteria can be saved with given names and can be recalled at a later time akin to search bookmarks.
i.e. This capability is in essence portable wishlists or search bookmarks independent of any TiVo that you can save via kmttg.
Remote Jump to minute, Skip minutes back, and Skip minutes ahead buttons now allow non-integer minutes to be used, such as 0.5.
Added Update/Install ProjectX... menu item for Linux systems which will automatically download and install ProjectX in kmttg installation folder.
Added Video container to use option in Slingbox capture GUI to give option to capture output in either mpegts or matroska containers. For Slingbox Pro box captures the H.264 that it puts out in TS container cannot be edited by VideoRedo TVSuite software, so adding matroska container option allows generation of captures that can be edited with VideoRedo.
CHANGES:
Updated x264 Hanbrake encoding profiles to add threads=CPU_CORES option as part of -x options so that kmttg option encoding cpu cores can be honored.
When using Search Table... input focus is now given to the table when a match is found so that table keyboard shortcuts will work without having to re-select row with mouse.
FIXES:
For VideoRedo qsfix and adcut tasks that are using .ts file suffix for TS files, the .mpg.txt metadata file now also gets appropriately renamed to match video output file suffix.
Remote Season Premieres table now avoids listing duplicate entries as was sometimes the case previously.
Slingbox capture task time stuck at 0:00:00 in job table when using older versions of ffmpeg.

New in Kmttg 1p0g (Sep 23, 2013)

New in Kmttg 1p0f (Sep 18, 2013)

New in Kmttg 1p0e (Sep 16, 2013)

ENHANCEMENTS:
Added new Remote tab useful for series 5 units: Web
This tab allows you to specify a URL to send to TiVo series 5 units internal web browser.
NOTE: The TiVo internal web browser has limited functionality and can't handle all web pages that a real browser can handle. For example there is no Flash video support and there is no "back" functionality to go back after following a link.
NOTE: This currently only works for Roamio units but kmttg will show all RPC enabled TiVos in the list in case in the future TiVo adds the functionality to TiVo Mini and/or series 4 units.
Once web page is displayed on the TiVo:
NAVIGATION: Use remote arrow keys to navigate the page and Select button to select or execute currently highlighted item on the page.
TYPING TEXT: You can use the kmttg Remote tab if there are fields where you need to enter some text since the kmttg remote understands key presses for the basic keyboard keys.
By request added additional columns to Remote Season Passes table:
RECORD - Which episodes to record. Value = firstRunOnly, rerunsAllowed or everyEpisode
KEEP - Keep Until setting. Value = fifo or forever
START - Start time padding (minutes)
END - End time padding (minutes)
Added Export Channels... button to Remote Guide tab which creates a channel lineup CSV file containing list of channels currently set as included or excluded in channel list. This can be useful for a new TiVo to consult a spreadsheet so as to know which channels to keep and remove.
CHANGES:
Changed File->Clear all messages keyboard shortcut from Ctrl-A to Ctrl-L since Ctrl-A in windows selects all items in a table by default and that function is useful to some.
Added Backspace key as "delete show" keyboard shortcut for NPL tables in addition to the existing Delete key for keyboards that may not have Delete key function.
Implemented faster way of highlighting entries in NPL tables when Highlight processed shows in history file option is enabled.
FIXES:
When deleting more than 1 show at a time the names of deleted shows displayed in message window had no spaces between them.

New in Kmttg 1p0d (Aug 13, 2013)

ENHANCEMENTS:
Shows in Remote tables that are marked as in ToDo list now list all TiVos on which they will record when selected. Previously only 1 TiVo would be identified regardless.
Added new configuration option under File Settings tab by user request: Delete failed downloads - On by default. If disabled kmttg will not delete failed download files. Only useful disabled if you also have Overwrite existing files option disabled or # download attempts option set to 0 or 1. By disabling this option note that you can end up with partial downloads so most users will probably want to keep this option enabled.
Added new configuration option under Visual tab by user request: Highlight processed shows in history file - Off by default. When enabled shows in NPL tables will be have a light yellow color signifying that they have been processed in the past by kmttg and have an entry in the kmttg auto.history file.
By request Auto Transfers->Loop in GUI button state is now preserved when exiting and restarting kmttg. That means if you exit kmttg with button enabled then kmttg will automatically start Loop in GUI mode when next kmttg session is started.
By request Auto Transfers->Add selected titles now works for Remote tables with show titles in addition to TiVo tables.
Added right mouse button popup menu to Remote Season Passes table with following items:
Delete [delete]
Copy [c]
Modify [m]
Upcoming [u]
Conflicts [o]
Display data [j]
Web query [q]
Added additional right mouse button popup menu items to NPL table:
Add to auto transfers - Equivalent to choosing Auto Transfers->Add selected titles
Add to history file - Equivalent to choosing Auto Transfers->Add selected to history file
Added additional right mouse button popup menu items to Remote ToDo table:
Cancel [c]
Modify [m]
Add to auto transfers
Added additional right mouse button popup menu items to Remote Won't Record table:
Record [r]
Explain [e]
Add to auto transfers
Added additional right mouse button popup menu items to Remote Season Premieres table:
Record [r]
Season Pass [s]
Wishlist [w]
Add to auto transfers
Added additional right mouse button popup menu items to Remote Search table:
Record [r]
Season Pass [s]
Wishlist [w]
Add to auto transfers
Added additional right mouse button popup menu items to Remote Guide table:
Record [r]
Season Pass [s]
Wishlist [w]
Add to auto transfers
Added additional right mouse button popup menu items to Remote Deleted table:
Recover [r]
Permanently Delete [delete]
Add to auto transfers
CHANGES:
TiVo Mini units no longer occupy a Now Playing tab since it's useless to have a tab for them. However they still show up in "Remote" list of TiVos since some Remote functions are useful to use with a Mini. Mini units are also now ignored by batch and auto transfers mode and in other parts of GUI where selecting Mini is irrelevant.
Show Information dialog now wraps very long subtitles instead of making a very wide dialog box.
Programs in configuration now default to empty string if not found.
Disabled Record and SP buttons in Remote tabs for series 3 TiVos since it looks like that functionality which depends on middlemind.tivo.com no longer works anymore.
FIXES:
Auto Transfers->Add selected titles now automatically escapes most regex special characters so that titles with characters such as '?' added to title auto transfers setup will match as expected.
Filter out pyTivo host information and extraneous commas from Show Information dialog
Updated slingbox rec2.pl script for Slingbox Pro models to work with Tune to channel option.

New in Kmttg 1p0c (Jul 8, 2013)

ENHANCEMENTS:
Added File->Search Table... menu item which brings up a search dialog that allows you to search tables. This applies to currently displayed table with a SHOW column only. If a match is found the corresponding table row is selected.
Added new Show Information dialog for RPC enabled TiVos which displays more detailed show information than message window that includes actors and artwork.
To bring up this dialog select a show in a table for an RPC enabled TiVo and then press i key or right click mouse button and select Show Information from the popup menu.
If you leave the dialog up and select a different show in a table the dialog will be automatically updated with selected show information.
NOTE: Since this is for RPC enabled TiVos series 3 and earlier units are not supported.
Added right mouse button popup menu for Now Playing List table with menu entries corresponding to available key bindings:
Get extended metadata - Get extended metadata for selected show (Same as pressing m and equivalent to right mouse button click in previous releases). NOTE: This is only displayed if extended metadata can't be obtained via RPC or middlemind.tivo.com.
Delete - Delete show from source TiVo if possible (Same as pressing Delete)
Play - Play show on source TiVo if possible (Same as pressing Space)
Show Information - For RPC enabled TiVos only display Show Information dialog (Same as pressing i)
Display data - Dump all available show information to message window (Same as pressing j)
Web query - Initiate show web query (Same as pressing q)
Added right mouse button popup menu for Remote ToDo, Won't Record, Season Premieres, Search, Guide, Deleted tables with following menu entries:
Show Information - For RPC enabled TiVos only display Show Information dialog (Same as pressing i)
Display data - Dump all available show information to message window (Same as pressing j)
Web query - Initiate show web query (Same as pressing q)
encode and vrdeconde tasks will now copy metadata file if it exists for the source video to destination video metadata file. Thus, for example if you start an encoding via FILES tab for a video file that has an accompanying metadata file, the metadata is now carried along to the output encoded file.
[keyboard_shortcuts] Wiki updated with new keyboard shortcuts and popup menu names.
With Remove .mpg file after encode setting turned on input metadata file will also get deleted if it exists when encode job completes.
By request added keyboard shortcuts for main window buttons: START JOBS can be activated by pressing s; CANCEL JOBS can be activated by pressing c
For Season Premieres table when you click on a Season Pass that is already setup on more than 1 TiVo kmttg now lists all of them (comma separated). Previously only up to 1 TiVo name would be displayed instead of all.
CHANGES:
Changed Auto Transfers->Service->Install,Start,Stop,Remove to run in the background so as not to tie up the GUI. Also changed how kmttg service is created to use sc create which gives better error messages should something go wrong - usually permissions problem. Most common error message is: "[SC] OpenSCManager FAILED 5:, Access is denied." This means UAC is running and to get service to run you need to run kmttg as Administrator which means changing javaw.exe properties to run as administrator.
Service install now also defaults to Manual start up instead of Automatic.
Removed Ctrl-X File->Exit menu key binding to avoid potential unintended exit of kmttg.
Removed File->Reset TiVo web server menu item as it doesn't do anything useful anyway.
FIXES:
Main File menu item key bindings now work from almost anywhere in kmttg GUI:
Ctrl-A = Clear message window
Ctrl-E = Refresh Encoding Profiles
Ctrl-M = Save message window contents to log file
Ctrl-O = Bring up Configuration options GUI
Ctrl-S = Bring up Search Table dialog

New in Kmttg 1p0b (Jun 24, 2013)

New in Kmttg 1p0a (May 27, 2013)

ENHANCEMENTS:
Added Help->Update kmttg... menu entry which can be used to update kmttg installation to the latest version automatically.
Added Help->Update tools... menu entry which can be used to update kmttg helper tools for Windows and Mac platforms instead of having to manually download and install the tools zip file when updating.
For Remote Guide tab previously when returning to this tab from a different tab the Start selection would always reset to the 1st entry when the time range was updated. This has now been updated to return to previous selection if still relevant.
CHANGES:
For Remote Season Passes table when you delete a Season Pass the selection now moves to the row above the one you deleted. Previously you would simply lose selection completely.
For Now Playing List table when you delete 1 or more shows the row selection is now set to the row above the lowest selection when possible. Previously you would simply lose selection completely.
Removed -bug argument not compatible with recent ffmpeg builds for ffmpeg encoding profiles:
ff_droid
ff_h264_high_rate
ff_h264_med_rate
Added -v command line option for printing out current kmttg version.
Added --cookie-jar cookieFile option back to curl-based download tasks.
FIXES:
Updated AtomicParsley run such that --TVEpisodeNum argument is just the episode # without season # for correct display by AppleTV and the like.
Strip out leading 0s from ProgramId numbers when checking against auto.history file to see if a program has been downloaded before. This is to workaround cases when TiVo XML data doesn't have leading 0s in ProgramId number which has been reported to happen sometimes.
Removed chcp command from Mac/Linux scripts for curl-based combined download/decrypt. That command is only supposed to be included in Windows scripts for proper international character support in file names.
When Allow only 1 download at a time option was enabled it would block non-download jobs from running as well if more than 1 download was queued up.

New in Kmttg 0p9r (May 13, 2013)

New in Kmttg 0p9q (Apr 29, 2013)

New in Kmttg 0p9p (Apr 1, 2013)

ENHANCEMENTS:
Added Autoresolve button to Remote Won't Record tab. Searches for all conflicts of type 'programSourceConflict' on all RPC or Mind enabled TiVos and tries to automatically schedule them to record on alternate TiVos.
Associated with the above kmttg now supports a new command line argument -c which can be used to run kmttg in batch mode to run the auto conflict resolver. That way you can setup a script to run it in batch mode and add the script to a scheduler to periodically run it automatically (say once a week) without having to run from the GUI.
By request [SeriesEpNumber] field was added as an option for TiVo File Naming which is Episode number in Plex Media Manager format: s#e# Note that it is assumed the episode number is 2 digits which is not always the case for every series.
For Remote tables that indicate ToDo recordings there is now a 15 minute window after which kmttg automatically refreshes ToDo list. Previously ToDo list would only update 1st time and you would have to refresh manually, so if you left kmttg GUI open for a long time that became inconvenient.
For Remote Season Premieres table when a show is clicked on that is already scheduled as a Season Pass the message window now indicates which TiVo the Season Pass is on.
Added Hulu Plus, AOL On and Launchpad HME destinations to Remote.
CHANGES:
Percent complete indicator for ToDo, Won't Record and Deleted Remote tasks is implemented when querying series 4 units.
Added note when Remote Info tab Network Connect button fails that the reason is likely that box is in "Pending Restart" mode and thus cannot net connect until after reboot and software update.
FIXES:
When folders are selected when clicking on START button kmttg will now properly queue up tasks including items inside the folders. Previously with folders as part of selection they were discarded along with any subsequent selections.
Fix to Remote Season Passes Modify button to update upcoming & conflicts. In previous release after using Modify button that information was not being included in the displayed table.
Updated Save Jobs to skip any remote job types since they are not serializable and hence cannot be saved/restored.
For both TWP Delete and iPad Delete tasks kmttg now checks if the task is relevant for the TiVo for which the delete is requested. This avoids trying to perform a delete when both options are enabled but not necessarily relevant for a TiVo unit. Thus, for example TWP Delete is no longer attempted for series 4 units.

New in Kmttg 0p9o (Mar 4, 2013)

New in Kmttg 0p9n (Feb 27, 2013)

New in Kmttg 0p9l (Feb 18, 2013)

New in Kmttg 0p9k (Feb 4, 2013)

ENHANCEMENTS:
Added Use comskip GUI to review detected commercials option to Program Options configuration. When this is enabled following Ad Detect task that uses comskip kmttg will bring up comskip GUI that allows you to review and make modifications to the detected commercials visually. Consult comskip_commercial_editing Wiki page for a summary of how to use the comskip visual editor.
For RPC Remote Record button added Try scheduling on all TiVos option. If option is enabled then kmttg will successively try and schedule the selected recording on all available RPC-enabled TiVos. Thus if scheduling fails on originally targeted TiVo due to conflicts, then successively try scheduling on other available TiVos instead.
Added Combine Ad Cut & Encode VideoRedo configuration option which if enabled means kmttg will combine the Ad Cut and encode tasks into 1 by using the selected VideoRedo encoding profile during the Ad Cut step. Note that this only works if you have a VideoRedo encoding profile selected, otherwise an error is generated and the Ad Cut task is aborted.
Added Force QS Fix output to always be mpeg2 Program Stream VideoRedo configuration option which will force VideoRedo to output mpeg2 program stream format regardless of the input video file format. This is useful for example if you have TS downloads enabled but want to get mpeg2 program stream format output instead of mpeg2 transport stream.
Added movieYear if available to description printed to message window when clicking on a show for various tables.
Added [originalAirDate] as an available keyword for File Naming in kmttg config. This will use originalAirDate if available, else uses the equivalent of [year]-[monthNum]-[mday] of recording otherwise.
CHANGES:
RPC Remote Won't Record table now will indicate if an entry that won't record is scheduled to record at an alternate time slot on all TiVos.
Made video files default file filter for File Browser to show all video files by default instead of just ts, mpg, tivo.
FIXES:
Fixed NullPointerException problem when attempting to create a Wishlist using WL button from RPC Remote tabs.
When encountering a scheduling conflict while using RPC Remote Record button, the conflicting programs were not being listed by kmttg.
RPC Remote Info tab had an issue handling channels without callSign which has now been fixed.
Fixes for AtomicParsley --contentRating and --hdvideo flags (for newer AtomicParsley binaries that support those options).
If you quit kmttg with a VRD encoding profile as current selection now kmttg will restore that selection next time kmttg is started and VRD profiles are obtained.

New in Kmttg 0p9j (Jan 21, 2013)

New in Kmttg 0p9h (Jan 7, 2013)

New in Kmttg 0p9g (Jan 5, 2013)

New in Kmttg 0p9f (Jan 4, 2013)

New in Kmttg 0p9e (Jan 3, 2013)

ENHANCEMENTS:
Added Remote functionality for older TiVo models that don't have direct RPC protocol support. kmttg will use middlemind.tivo.com server for Remote functionality for TiVos that don't have Enable iPad style communications with this TiVo option enabled in kmttg config.
Note that not all the functionality is available and various buttons that do not apply are disabled when using middlemind server for a TiVo. Also note that scheduling individual recordings and season passes on this TiVo will have delayed functionality with email confirmations just as if you scheduled them from tivo.com or equivalent online guides.
Related to this enhancement, the config->Tivos tab now has settings where you can supply your tivo.com username & password to use for logging into middlemind server. If you don't specify them directly in config but you configure kmttg for pyTivo.conf and that contains the username & password, kmttg will get them from there.
kmttg now automatically detects and enables RPC functionality for series 4 units known to support RPC.
Added pyTivo stream button to FILES tab if at least 1 TiVo in kmttg config has RPC (iPad style communications) enabled.
This allows you to stream video files to a series 4 or later TiVo using TiVoCast HME Video Player and pyTivo as a video server. You can choose a video file that resides under one of pyTivo video shares in the FILES table and then click on this button to stream it to a specified series 4 or later TiVo.
The advantage of streaming this way vs for example Streambaby is that there is no 1.1GB buffer limitation.
NOTE: This only works for unencrypted mpeg2 program stream and H.264 mp4 files that pyTivo can transfer without having to transcode. If you attempt to stream a non-compliant video that pyTivo transcodes this will not work. .TiVo files also won't work.
Added Show pending pyTivo pushes File menu item that brings up a dialog box that allows you to view currently queued up pyTivo pushes on TiVo Mind server and to remove selected entries from the queue.
You must first select TiVo tab corresponding to destination TiVo of pushes you want to check on before selecting the menu entry.
VideoRedo qsfix job now properly handles input files other than mpeg2 program stream type.
Previously this task would always output type mpeg2 program stream regardless of input file type but now will try and preserve same input container and video type for the output file.
Note that as part of this change VRDscripts/qsfix.vbs was updated.
VideoRedo adcut job now properly handles input files other than mpeg2 program stream type.
Previously this task would always output type mpeg2 program stream regardless of input file type but now will try and preserve same input container and video type for the output file.
Note that as part of this change VRDscripts/adcut.vbs was updated.
RPC Remote ToDo list retrieval for multiple TiVos at a time now is run in parallel instead of sequentially to help speed things up when you have more than 1 TiVo.
CHANGES:
projectx, projectxcut, and comskip tasks now check for mpeg2 video input since other video types are not supported for these tasks.
FIXES:
RPC Remote Season Passes GUI had a bug where after loading SP data all subsequent operations would be treated as loaded data even after using Refresh button to load SP data from a TiVo.

New in Kmttg 0p9d (Dec 11, 2012)

New in Kmttg 0p9b (Nov 23, 2012)

New in Kmttg 0p9a (Nov 6, 2012)

New in Kmttg 0p8v (Oct 23, 2012)

New in Kmttg 0p8u (Sep 4, 2012)

New in Kmttg 0p8t (Jun 6, 2012)

New in Kmttg 0p8s (Jun 1, 2012)

New in Kmttg 0p8r (May 24, 2012)

New in Kmttg 0p8f (Aug 1, 2011)

New in Kmttg 0p8c (Jul 1, 2011)

New in Kmttg 0p8a (Jun 27, 2011)

Enhancements:
Many new enhancements for Premiere owners thanks to some reverse engineering of the iPad protocol by TCF member 'arantius' which allows communicating with TiVo Premiere units using the iPad protocol without needing an iPad, which opens the door to a lot of information which can now be obtained from Premiere units. For this release these are the new features available related to this capability:
New "Remote Control" GUI with several tabs to collect information from and interact with Premiere TiVos:
ToDo tab which allows you to display To Do List for selected Premiere. Once you have To Do List displayed you can select upcoming recordings in the table and use the keyboard delete to cancel them.
Season Passes tab which allows you to display Season Pass list for selected Premiere. You can also backup Season Passes from a TiVo to a file on your computer and load them back into kmttg. You can also copy displayed Season Passes to any TiVo Premiere on your network. i.e. You can now backup your Season Pass list and copy Season Passes from one TiVo to another. Finally you can also select SP items in the table and use the keyboard delete to unsubscribe them.
Will Not Record tab which displays list of all upcoming recordings that TiVo will not record (like View Recording History on your TiVo) and categorizes the shows into different folder names that describe why they won't be recorded. i.e. This is an easier way to find important recordings that won't record without having to wade through many reasons you don't care about (e.g. repeats).
Advanced Controls tab which has buttons that allow you to jump precisely user-specified N minutes ahead or backwards or exactly to minute N in currently playing show. i.e. Advanced navigation control. There is also an "HME Jump" button which allows you to choose a TiVo HME application in a list and jump directly to it. (NOTE: This does not include local HME applications).
System Information tab which allows you to list some system information obtained from selected TiVo: software version, total disk size, used disk space, parental controls state, current background and foreground tuner channel information.
Ability to play and delete shows displayed in Now Playing List for Premiere TiVos using "space" and "delete" keyboard buttons respectively.
Ability to setup "iPad delete" tasks for GUI and auto transfers which gives you option to automatically delete show on your Premieres once successfully downloaded and decrypted.
NOTE: Under kmttg configuration "Tivos" tab there is a new item called Enable iPad style communications with this TiVo which when enabled turns on the capabilities listed above - only works for TiVo Premieres or newer, not older units.
NOTE: Also under kmttg configuration "Program Options" tab there is a new item called "Enable iPad style delete task" which when enabled along with the above mentioned option makes a new "iPad delete" task available for use.
Added capability of using "delete" keyboard button to remove shows on TiVos for TiVo Web Plus enabled TiVos (hacked TiVos).
Changes:
Added:no-verify option to tivodecode calls based on user feedback that it helped avoid tivodecode failures for some cases.
Usually that means the TiVo file is so corrupted that the MAK check fails for that portion of decode, which means the resulting decrypted mpeg will have some pixelation at that point.
User provided patch to encoding profile command line parsing to treat quote enclosed strings as a single command line argument.
Update to a few VRDscripts to ensure proper abort of VideoRedo if a job is cancelled.
Fixes:
Added TiVoWebPlus deletion support following combined download/decrypt tasks (previously only supported for plain decrypt tasks).

New in Kmttg 0p7t (Feb 15, 2011)

New in Kmttg 0p7s (Jan 17, 2011)

New in Kmttg 0p7r (Dec 30, 2010)

New in Kmttg 0p7k (May 14, 2010)

ENHANCEMENTS
Added new Auto Transfers -> Loop in GUI checkbox menu entry. When checkbox enabled this will run Auto Transfers in the GUI in a continuous loop (until disabled or kmttg GUI shut down) unlike Run Once in GUI which only runs 1 pass. This provides an alternative to running Auto Transfers as a kmttg service (Windows) or background job (Mac/Linux) with easier visual feedback of queued jobs and status of running jobs.
NOTE: Loop in GUI mode also automatically logs messages to auto.log.0 file just as in service/background mode.
Added new ff_ipad 720p H.264 encoding profile for iPad devices.
Added new logging mechanism for Auto Transfers. Auto Transfer logs to file auto.log.0 and once a user-configurable file size limit is reached the file is copied to auto.log.1 and auto.log.0 is reset. This is to give users control over auto transfers log files which otherwise grow very large over time and have to be emptied out manually. A configuration option under File Settings tab called auto log file size limit (MB) allows you set to file size limit in MBytes (default is 10).
CHANGES
Download TiVo files in Transport Stream format option is now disabled by default again for a fresh kmttg installation due to various problems being reported with download and decrypt using TS container vs PS container for TiVo Premiere units.
pyTivo metadata text files are now written to use \r character at end of lines to be Windows compatible and so that Windows Media Player doesn't crash when trying to parse the txt file. This also allows easy manual editing of the files with Windows Notepad.
Auto Transfers -> Add selected to history file menu entry now adds ProgramId_unique in addition to ProgramId to auto.history file in case Treat each recording as unique option is used for certain shows.
Auto Transfers menu entry Run in GUI changed to Run Once in GUI to more obviously distinguish from new Loop in GUI menu entry.
Change to use an alternate (simpler) approach to writing messages to message pane in GUI mode.
FIXES
The GUI message pane is now restricted to up to 250KB of ascii text maximum (which corresponds to about 10MB or RAM used by the message pane). Once limit is reached earlier text in message pane is truncated. Previously there was no limit to amount of text allowed which meant if single GUI session was in use for a long time that Java memory use would eventually max out leading to application stack trace. This fix is especially needed now for use with Auto Transfers -> Loop in GUI capability which build up a lot of displayed messages for a single GUI session over time.
Restore of FILES Default Path setting fixed. In last several releases that setting would always reset to .TiVo Output Dir setting when starting kmttg.
GUI restore of Ad Detect setting was fixed. This was broken in previous release.

New in Kmttg 0p7j (Apr 13, 2010)

ENHANCEMENTS
Added automatic retry attempts for failed downloads which some users run into occasionally. Two new configuration settings were added to Program Options tab that are related:
◦ # download attempts (defaults to 5)
◦ seconds between download retry attempts (defaults to 10)
Added better detection of failed downloads to go along with automatic failed download retry enhancement.
VideoRedo option Encode using VideoRedo changed to Show VideoRedo encoding profiles. The behavior now is that VideoRedo profiles are ADDED to list of available Encoding Profiles for encode task. i.e. With that option enabled you can now choose among both VideoRedo and non-VideoRedo encoding profiles for the encode task. Previously with option enabled only the VideoRedo encoding profiles were displayed/available.
VideoRedo encoding profiles parser updated to support latest TV Suite 4 598 release which changed the reporting of output files slightly compared to previous versions.
Added new auto transfers config option: Treat each recording as unique. If enabled then kmttg will generate a unique ProgramId based on ProgramId and recorded time for each recording of this program. This is useful only for programs that do not already have unique ProgramIds for each episode, such as some news programs for example. For such programs kmttg would not ordinarily auto download subsequent episodes because a ProgramId entry already exists in auto.history file. By enabling this option kmttg will instead use a time-based ProgramId entry so that future recordings on different dates with same ProgramId will still auto download.
Updated tooltips related to Download TiVo files in Transport Stream format to include the TiVo Premiere as a DVR which supports this option. Also updated the Windows and Macintosh tools packages to include the newer version of tivodecode with Transport Stream support.
Added new configuration option under Program Options called Enable TivoWebPlus Delete task useful for those with hacked TiVos using TivoWebPlus. When enabled kmttg GUI & auto transfers setup will present an additional TWP Delete task. When that task is enabled kmttg will use TivoWebPlus to delete a show off the TiVo once TiVo file has been successfully downloaded and decrypted.
GUI now saves/restores the job table column order as well as the kmttg screen position.
Added new configuration option under Program Options called mencoder Ad Cut extra args which allows you to add additional custom arguments to mencoder for the Ad Cut task (comcut).
Disk Usage GUI will now set Total Disk Space (GB) as the total used space if user has not set that option. Setting that option to 0 also will reset it such that it will display total used space thus far. This is in case user does not know in advance how much disk space is available for recordings.
CHANGES
The previously supported workaround to deal with programs without unique ProgramId has been deprecated by the Treat each recording as unique auto transfers option described above and therefore is no longer used.
Added an additional check to VRD QS Fix task such that if input is a TiVo file and corresponding output mpeg file already exists then task is not scheduled to run if Overwrite existing files option is disabled.
Job table sorting disabled. Doesn't really serve a useful purpose to sort job table by different columns and if one accidentally clicked on a column header one could not revert to default sort order showing job execution priority.
Added new VideoReDo4.exe executable name to list of executable names searched for to start VideoRedo in GUI mode (for vrdreview task).
Updated Windows and Mac tools packages to include latest version of tivodecode 0.3pre4 with TS support and comskip.
Download TiVo files in Transport Stream format option is now enabled by default for a fresh kmttg installation.
custom job now will also look for [mpegFile_cut] with VideoRedo extension file (02).mpg if file_cut.mpg file does not exist.
FIXES
Fix to prevent folder names ending in white space. At least for Windows OS when creating a folder ending in white space the OS truncates the white space off the end of folder name which could lead to trouble depending how you configure File Naming setup.
Updated pyTivo push call to work properly with change in pyTivo response to external push calls in recent releases. Prior to this fix auto_push would always get 404 (Not Found) response from pyTivo server leading to error message "Not Found" being printed after every push by kmttg (even though pushes were going through fine still). NOTE: Subsequently pyTivo has been updated again so this is no longer an issue, but the fix still is valid with the new update as well.
Removed the previously added -noskip -mpegopts vbuf_size=400 arguments to mencoder for the comcut task as this was causing A/V sync issues and other problems for some users. Instead you can now add your own custom arguments for mencoder comcut task as detailed above.
Minor fix to qsfix task reporting delete of a null file under certain conditions.

New in Kmttg 0p7h (Feb 1, 2010)

ENHANCEMENTS:
Changed GUI to use stretchable panes so that now it is possible to resize the Now Playing List table relative to bottom panes as well as resize Job pane relative to Message pane. The tasks row and encoding row in main GUI were also modified not to stretch with main window for more compact horizontal spacing and better look.
download task now displays current transfer rate (in Mbps) in the STATUS column of Job Monitor. The rate indicates current transfer rate by computing # of bytes downloaded over last 5 seconds or so. This can be useful metric to have when trying to optimize/speed up transfers by tuning to blank channels, pausing playback, etc.
Several VideoRedo related enhancements:
Now when you cancel VideoRedo related jobs VideoRedo will actually be stopped as well. Previously the cscript job was killed but VideoRedo would continue running.
All VideoRedo related tasks now have percent completion included.
New Allow multiple VideoRedo jobs at once option which if enabled allows multiple VideoRedo tasks to run at the same time. Enabling this option works around a bug in VideoRedo which does not allow more than 1 "silent" version of VideoRedo to run at once. Side effect of enabling this option is for each VideoRedo task the initial GUI will popup momentarily before hiding itself from view if you are running kmttg in GUI mode.
New Encode using VideoRedo option available. If you have VideoRedo TVSuite 4 this enables you to use built in and/or custom VideoRedo encoding profiles for the "encode" task. kmttg will automatically switch to show available VideoRedo mp4 & wmv encoding profiles if this option is enabled.
Config option added under General tab: Do not show copy protected files in table. Enabling this option filters out copy protected shows from being listed in TiVo Now Playing Lists.
Config option added under General tab: Min # Channel Digits which sets minimum number of digits to use for channel numbers. Leading channel number will be padded with zeros if shorter than this number.
CHANGES:
Updated default ffmpeg to newer version. Also updated encoding profiles to work with newer ffmpeg.
Updated default win32 & Mac OSX tools zip package to use newer ffmpeg & handbrake executables.
x264 encoding updated to work with newer ffmpeg for the following profiles:
ff_h264_high_rate, ff_h264_med_rate, ff_ps3, ff_tivo_hd, ff_tivo_sd, ff_xbox360
Switched to use aac codec instead of libfaac and mpeg4 instead of libxvid for the following profiles to support newer ffmpeg:
ff_iphone, ff_ipod_hig_res, ff_ipod_low_res, ff_psp, ff_xbox360, ff_zune_hd, ff_zune_mp4
Changed pyTivo push task http timeout from 10 to 60 seconds.
Update to ff_psp profile to use h.264 instead of mpeg4 video codec and also to use higher resolution.
vrdencode graphical task no longer prevents other VideoRedo non-graphical tasks from running. There is still a limit of 1 at a time graphical or non-graphical VideoRedo job however unless you set the Allow multiple VideoRedo jobs at once option.
A few user supplied changes to AtomicParsley runs:
--tracknum & --album settings added.
--TVSeasonNum used instead of --TVSeason.
Added "Season #" to --title entry if season # exists.
Non-pyTivo "season" and "episode" metadata tags are processed if they exist in metadata file.
Non-pyTivo "artwork" metadata tag is processed if it exists in metadata file.
Some aesthetic changes made to Auto Transfers config GUI: rearranged some options and moved Add/Update/Del buttons below all the options to which they apply.
Initiated jobs now immediately show "started" in job table. Previously they would show "queued" until job statistics started to display.
FIXES:
Moved font size setting function to before pack call to prevent UI freezes when kmttg first starts with Java 1.5 (Java 1.6 was not a problem).
Added additional handling of special characters in file names to avoid potential problems with helper applications. All special character handling in file names is now documented in configuring_kmttg Wiki page.
Fix to work with pyTivo share paths specified in pyTivo.conf ending in slash/backslash
Copy protected in progress transfers are now marked with blue in progress transfer icon & blue background. (Previously copy protected status was shown no matter what the transfer status).
Added missing -y option to ff_zune_hd profile.