GBPVR Legacy DYING w/v1.2.9 - EWA, Streaming & Filesharing Probs

[geekdout]

Thanks for having patience - here's two sets, one for attempting to play recordings using filesharing mode, and the other using streaming. I don't know if the filesharing set may also have my failed attempts to watch live TV, too. The streaming attempt locked PVRX2, and I had to grab the files while it was still trying/failing to stream the video.

[sub]

2008-04-07 19:43:24.390 VERBOSE Graph contains the following filters:
2008-04-07 19:43:24.390 VERBOSE - InterVideo Audio Decoder
2008-04-07 19:43:24.390 VERBOSE - Video Renderer
2008-04-07 19:43:24.390 VERBOSE - DirectSound: SoundMAX Digital Audio
2008-04-07 19:43:24.390 VERBOSE - Ligos MPEG Audio Decoder
2008-04-07 19:43:24.390 VERBOSE - InterVideo Video Decoder
2008-04-07 19:43:24.390 VERBOSE - GB-PVR Flow Status
2008-04-07 19:43:24.390 VERBOSE - GB-PVR Parser
2008-04-07 19:43:24.390 VERBOSE - SOURCE

First thing I'd try doing is getting rid of the Ligos decoder and InterVideo decoders. They cause problems for lots of people.

Also set the audio renderer back to 'system default'.

For the filesharing setup, it looks like you've got the recording share set incorrectly.

[geekdout]

My remote PC has a new NVidia Geforce 6200 card w/256 MB RAM. I just now set the hardware to use that driver (is that OK?), and set the audio driver like you said, and deleted/recreated my driveshare to be more specific. I also downloaded Arcsoft Total Media Theatre AND an MPEG2 video decoder you had recommended elsewhere.

How do you get rid of other video decoders - just select something else from the config menu, or actually de-install them from the PC?

After installing the new decoders and copying the Mpeg2DecFilter.ax file to the GBPVR root directory, I still can't see or select them in the config. I'm getting choppy sound, but no video. The Arcsoft demo plays the .MPG files over the share, but slightly choppy. It doesn't appear that GBPVR v1.0.16 allows you to use H.264 video decoders. Is there an optimal video decoder that I should use for my particular video card - and if so, where do I get it?

[sub]

I also downloaded Arcsoft Total Media Theatre AND an MPEG2 video decoder you had recommended elsewhere.

I dont think I recommended Arcsoft Total Media Theatre anywhere. I dont use it here, so wouldnt have specifically recommended it.

Either way, post the logs again and I'll see what decoders are being used now.

[geekdout]

Sub - I REALLY appreciate your support. This has been a time consuming and frustrating thing, due in large part to my ignorance of the particulars required to get this working right. However, this isn't a straight forward process at all. I have a degree in Physics, a minor in math, have worked at NASA, have Microsoft MCSE and Cisco CCNP certifications, am a network engineer, I've built and managed computers most of my life, have been ripping DVD's and creating video for a couple of years, and this little project really makes me feel like an idiot.

The last thing I tried was to educate myself about codecs a little, so I downloaded and installed XP_Codec_Pack_2-3-6.exe from Free Video Codecs, grabbed some instructions for viewing/modifying installed codecs, and the Sherlock analysis tool (actually part of the codec download, too).

I'm sure I've really junked up my system with lots of the wrong codecs that are probably fighting with each other and PVRX2. The analysis tool gave a long page of installed codecs (maybe 20 or so, both audio and video), the procedure to see them in XP device manager gave a much shorter list (around 10), and after all of that GBPVR config only showed ONE new codec to try, some G/L version - which I selected as a software MPEG playback codec (an ffdshow message popped up in PVRX2 after that, and I told it to run). On top of that, it's hard to tell which .DLL from the XP device manager matches which common name for the decoder. I can't figure out how you're supposed to know which codec to keep, what to remove, or how because the names don't line up. The Sherlock utility doesn't give you an option for removing the codecs, and by removing a .DLL from XP I can't tell what I'm actually killing. I could remove some of the video playback apps that I'm sure installed a few of these, but I don't know which codecs would be affected. I'm attaching the utility output and screenshots of what XP says are available codecs. I didn't have time to grab the PVRX2 logs, but will send them later.

Both filesharing and streaming are now working, streaming is better, but neither is good enough to use - or as good as the results from using EWA and VLC.

Thx!

[sub]

Can you post the PVRX2.exe-native.log now that you've got rid of the Ligos and InterVideo decoders.

[geekdout]

Here's my latest logs, a set for filesharing and another for streaming. I've read up more on codecs and have downloaded a couple of utilities, GSpot and Graphedit so I can play with the codecs a little.

[sub]

Everything looks fine there. I'm guessing your wireless link isnt up to the task.

[geekdout]

Weird, as HULU streams well over the internet, and VLC streams OK from the same GBPVR server - all using the same wireless link.

[sub]

That doesnt surprise me. GB-PVR is known to be really heavy on the network usage when stream between client and server.