Syabas have been able to provide more information on the NMT hardware which now offers several opportunities to change the NMT client and I have uploaded a YouTube demo on the PCH here http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=5pwQtm-hNC4
What you see is the client running without mono playing an mpeg-ts file from a QAM digital source in live TV. With this new approach it could be possible to
- start audio and video in well under two seconds,
- have more responsive livetv channel changes,
- OSD over video
Clearly the demo is not optimised, and some of the offset are not quite correct, I even had to run as an MVP, but I expect that the OSD navigation will be close to the same speed you get with GBPVR menus and faster than the MVP.
If I go this route, I will need a much deeper commitment from sub to get mpeg-ts support, since GPBVR doesn't provide this to the MVP/NMT client today Effectively you will lose all the capabilities in mono including file navigation (ff/rw, time seek, 30 second seek etc) and resume (next firmware), info button and anything that is added to mono in the future. I am estimating that the GBPVR navigation tricks will require about 1.5 seconds of blank screen, for skips including com skip too if that helps, a little faster than the livetv pauses in the demo.
Additionally I only intend to support this on mpeg-ts and mpeg-ps files. The other container formats (mkv, avi, dvd, wmv) are handled well by mono and I don't want to provide anything less.
This all leads up to the question is this something you want me to continue to devote time to? Ultimately sub controls the destiny, but if you don't need it I don't want to waste a few weeks building and investigation this.
I've written a little utility to generate the tuning information required for digital capture cards independently of the GBPVR config utility. You might find it helpful if your capture card doesnât work well with GBPVR, e.g. if it crashes during scanning, or fails to find all the channels expected.
It's called GBPVR PID Grabber; it's actually a MultiDec plugin for use with a "host" TV application. It takes the tuning information from the host and writes it to a GBPVR compatible file. So you need to have your card working correctly with a suitable application first.
I tried setting a config.xml entry for one of my MVPs so that it does not transcode ts but while that seems to work it has caused other problems. It appears to be sending incremental updates even though I have this set to FALSE:
<MAC-000DXXXXXX>
<MVPWidth>640</MVPWidth>
<MVPHeight>500</MVPHeight>
<MVPOffsetX>44</MVPOffsetX>
<MVPOffsetY>40</MVPOffsetY>
<MVPTranscodeTS>false</MVPTranscodeTS>
<MVPSendIncrementalUpdates>false</MVPSendIncrementalUpdates>
<MVPTranscodeAVI>true</MVPTranscodeAVI>
<MVPTranscodeWMV>true</MVPTranscodeWMV>
<MVPTranscodeMKV>true</MVPTranscodeMKV>
</MAC-000DFE00724D>
I've also tried adding a <MVPClientType>MVP</MVPClientType> line but still no joy.
I'm assuming that is what the problem is, I'm getting black screens with just selected text or buttons when I navigate.
What do I need to set to make it work?
Cheers
What plugins are we planning to support? Or in other words, which are no longer available on the wiki or not work with PVRX2? Basically looking for a list of plugin names which will be folders in devnz\gbpvr\skin and/or devnz\gbpvr\skin2
(thought I'd post in the CS sub-forum rather than clog up the developers thread)
PC running vista
I have a quad core intel cpu 2.4.GHz
Gigabyte MB
2 gig ram 1066
1 DNTV Pro
1 Divco Fusion
2 X nvidia 8600 video cards in SLI mode
Running the latest drivers.
Connect via ethernet 1 x dreambox (enigma)
Even with all this I am unable to get a stable gbpvr it hangs and wont recover.
Using dvb cards (TS mux) drops out sputters hangs and dies.
Using dreambox plugin drops out and wont reconnect despite dreambox still working.
Frustrated to the point of tears and tolerating I told you so comments from guess who.
:o
Please help me
can PVRX2 use 64 bit codecs, I guess is the first questions and if so how? Maybe switching to WMP64? I know there is a 64 bit version of ffdshow. Not sure if powerdvd8 has 64 bit codecs. Thanks.
