0.96.8 Issues

[frs]

Hi,

I thought I share some issues I found with 0.96.8 (VisionPlus DVB-T, MediaMVP)

• discovered that sometimes recording results in several mpg files with file size 0 except the last one. In the log file five recordings where stopped / started within 6 seconds (see log file attached). Retry logic?
  
• playback of file size 0 crashes MediaMVP.
  
• intermittend crash of playback with MediaMVP (not reproducable). Never saw it before.
  
• delete of recording in "What's new" does not remove recording from the list. Have to delete it again (this time play does not appear) in order to see it removed from list. Leaving screen and coming back though will not show deleted recordings. Is this by design?
  
• inconsistent remote keys (MediaMVP): In video / music library, skip keys are used for page scroll. In recordings, blue botton. Play key does not work for video. Also, play key in music plays only one song. "Play All" could removed when music just continous with the next song like any CD / MP3 player does. Maybe "Play All" makes sense for video.
  
• tried experimental dongle. It's much faster! However, switching on MediaMVP does not work once switched off. Have several avi files with MP2 audio (compressed via mencoder with audio copy for fast transcoding) with audio playback distorted. Works fined with Hauppauge dongle. MPEG playback with 4:3 files does not use full TV screen, which is 4:3.
  

Many thanks to sub!

Rgds,

frs

[sub]

discovered that sometimes recording results in several mpg files with file size 0 except the last one. In the log file five recordings where stopped / started within 6 seconds (see log file attached). Retry logic?

Reproduce, then zip and attach the logs and I'll take a look.

playback of file size 0 crashes MediaMVP.

I'm not surprised.

delete of recording in "What's new" does not remove recording from the list. Have to delete it again (this time play does not appear) in order to see it removed from list. Leaving screen and coming back though will not show deleted recordings. Is this by design?

It is deleted immediately, but due to a bug in Microsoft Access which does not commit the updates to disc immediately, this sometimes mean that when the recording list is re-read it still looks like it is there. You'd notice if you went to the main menu and back it would have had time to be commited to disc. I've been aware of this problem since the very first release of GB-PVR. I could put in some sleep before re-reading the list, but it wasnt that important to me.

inconsistent remote keys (MediaMVP): In video / music library, skip keys are used for page scroll. In recordings, blue botton. Play key does not work for video. Also, play key in music plays only one song. "Play All" could removed when music just continous with the next song like any CD / MP3 player does. Maybe "Play All" makes sense for video.

Yes, I'm aware of these inconsistencies. These have also been there a long time. I may change in a future release.

tried experimental dongle. It's much faster! However, switching on MediaMVP does not work once switched off.

This has been corrected in the next release.

several avi files with MP2 audio (compressed via mencoder with audio copy for fast transcoding) with audio playback distorted. Works fined with Hauppauge dongle.

Can you make sure config.xml has the "-f svcd" paremeter in <MVPFFmpegTranscodeCmdLinePAL> or <MVPFFmpegTranscodeCmdLineNTSC> (whichever is appropriate to you).