Problems playing video on MVP with GB-PVR

[JasonDark]

Hi
I´ve got a plain Win2k SP4 install on my machine. The Hauppauge Software for my MVP and PVR150 was also installed and works as expected.
With this configuration i can play each video (MPEG/DivX/XViD), both local and from network.

But i wanted more, or in other words i wanted the features of GB-PVR. I´ve installed GB-PVR and after 3 days with little trouble and many help from your search function i´ve got the software running. Anyhow the Live-TV function runs very well.
But with playing videos i ran in one problem after another. I´ve tried to track them down, but with nearly no success.

Until now, i can play some local MPEG files like the ones i´ve recorded with the PVR150. But if i select a MPEG video from my landiskdrive (mapped as t:\), which works with MVPMedia software, i´ve got this result:

Code:

21.06.2005 23:34:48.640 VERBOSE [2] frame sent 21.06.2005 23:34:48.875 VERBOSE [58] MVP data read: 1 (3) 21.06.2005 23:34:48.875 VERBOSE [58] MVP request processed 21.06.2005 23:34:54.640 ERROR [2] MVP Timer Refresh error: Eine bestehende Verbindung wurde softwaregesteuert durch den Hostcomputer abgebrochen 21.06.2005 23:34:54.671 ERROR [2] at System.Net.Sockets.Socket.Send(Byte[] buffer, Int32 offset, Int32 size, SocketFlags socketFlags) at System.Net.Sockets.Socket.Send(Byte[] buffer, Int32 size, SocketFlags socketFlags) at q.a(Boolean A_0) at q.c(Object A_0, EventArgs A_1) 21.06.2005 23:35:00.625 ERROR [2] MVP Timer Refresh error: Eine bestehende Verbindung wurde softwaregesteuert durch den Hostcomputer abgebrochen 21.06.2005 23:35:00.625 ERROR [2] at System.Net.Sockets.Socket.Send(Byte[] buffer, Int32 offset, Int32 size, SocketFlags socketFlags) at System.Net.Sockets.Socket.Send(Byte[] buffer) at q.a(Boolean A_0) at q.c(Object A_0, EventArgs A_1) 21.06.2005 23:35:01.640 ERROR [2] MVP Timer Refresh error: Eine bestehende Verbindung wurde softwaregesteuert durch den Hostcomputer abgebrochen 21.06.2005 23:35:01.640 ERROR [2] at System.Net.Sockets.Socket.Send(Byte[] buffer, Int32 offset, Int32 size, SocketFlags socketFlags) at System.Net.Sockets.Socket.Send(Byte[] buffer) at q.a(Boolean A_0) at q.c(Object A_0, EventArgs A_1) 21.06.2005 23:35:07.656 ERROR [2] MVP Timer Refresh error: Eine bestehende Verbindung wurde softwaregesteuert durch den Hostcomputer abgebrochen 21.06.2005 23:35:07.656 ERROR [2] at System.Net.Sockets.Socket.Send(Byte[] buffer, Int32 offset, Int32 size, SocketFlags socketFlags) at System.Net.Sockets.Socket.Send(Byte[] buffer) at q.a(Boolean A_0) at q.c(Object A_0, EventArgs A_1) 21.06.2005 23:35:09.890 VERBOSE [58] MVP data taking too long, connection must have been dropped! 21.06.2005 23:35:09.890 VERBOSE [2] getValue() loading new key/value into cache: /settings/NetRadioBufferSize 21.06.2005 23:35:09.890 VERBOSE [2] getValue: /settings/NetRadioBufferSize : 96000 21.06.2005 23:35:09.890 INFO [2] NetRadio buffer size is: 96000 21.06.2005 23:35:09.921 VERBOSE [59] MVP media connection recycle requested 21.06.2005 23:35:10.109 ERROR [58] MVPWorkerThread - Connection lost, waiting a new one

After that the MVP is seeking for the server and reconnects.


Another problem i´ve found after several tries, the GB-PVR doesn´t like umlauts (äöüß):

Code:

21.06.2005 23:09:55.468 INFO [42] playFile() 21.06.2005 23:09:55.578 VERBOSE [42] About to play file: T:\Filme\Film2 mit ümlaut.mpg 21.06.2005 23:09:55.578 VERBOSE [42] Sending MVP Video Playback Request: T:\Filme\Film2 mit ümlaut.mpg 21.06.2005 23:09:55.593 VERBOSE [42] Playback started: T:\Filme\Film2 mit ümlaut.mpg 21.06.2005 23:09:55.656 VERBOSE [43] MVP playback requested: T:\Filme\Film2 mit C<mlaut.mp 21.06.2005 23:09:55.656 ERROR [43] Media stream thread caught exception: Illegal characters in path. 21.06.2005 23:09:55.656 ERROR [43] at System.IO.Path.GetFileName(String path) at System.IO.FileStream..ctor(String path, FileMode mode, FileAccess access, FileShare share) at q.ai()

Code:

21.06.2005 23:34:18.578 VERBOSE [43] MVP playback requested: T:\Filme\Film3 mit Ce_mlaut.mpg 21.06.2005 23:34:18.578 VERBOSE [42] MVP not sending frame 21.06.2005 23:34:18.578 VERBOSE [42] MVP request processed 21.06.2005 23:34:18.578 VERBOSE [42] MVP data read: 1 (7) 21.06.2005 23:34:18.578 VERBOSE [42] MVP request processed 21.06.2005 23:34:18.593 ERROR [43] Media stream thread caught exception: Die Syntax für den Dateinamen, Verzeichnisnamen oder die Datenträgerbezeichnung ist falsch. 21.06.2005 23:34:18.718 ERROR [43] at System.IO.__Error.WinIOError(Int32 errorCode, String str) at System.IO.FileStream..ctor(String path, FileMode mode, FileAccess access, FileShare share, Int32 bufferSize, Boolean useAsync, String msgPath, Boolean bFromProxy) at System.IO.FileStream..ctor(String path, FileMode mode, FileAccess access, FileShare share) at q.ai()

This is no real problem, because these files can be renamed quickly, but i´m already posting...


Last but not least, with GB-PVR i can play no .avi video, local or network makes no difference. Some videos starts playing, but after maybe 10sec the MVP is kicked back to the selection screen. Others turn the screen black and the MVP reboots. I´ve reinstalled the pc several times, with differend codecs and differnd versions of ffdshow. Also i´ve changed the dongle.bin which comes with GB-PVR, against some of the Hauppauge packages (stable/beta/out of date). My last try was to start the MVPSrv process while GB-PVR ist running, but with no success...

Do you have any ideas which solves my problems with playing video? I don´t want to use two tools, if one of them should be capable of doing both jobs (Live-TV and video playback).

I hope my english is not to bad and some of my problems are understandable.

Greetings
JD


p.s. one more to go...
With one .avi file i´ve got another error, but i don´t knew where it cames from:

Code:

21.06.2005 23:09:40.296 INFO [42] playFile() 21.06.2005 23:09:40.296 INFO [42] Found commercial skip point file: t:\filme\Film1.avi 21.06.2005 23:09:40.359 ERROR [42] Unexpected error parsing commercial skip point file

No, i have not installed any commercial search tools of any kind.
And it doesn´t play like all of them.

[sub]

Last but not least, with GB-PVR i can play no .avi video, local or network makes no difference. Some videos starts playing, but after maybe 10sec the MVP is kicked back to the selection screen.

You could try increasing the 'MVP Transcode pre-play delay' setting in the config app. Playing avi files does require quite a bit of CPU grunt. You PC effectively needs to be able decode the video and re-encode as MPEG, all in realtime.

With one .avi file i´ve got another error, but i don´t knew where it cames from:
No, i have not installed any commercial search tools of any kind.

Its probably caused by a text file of the same name in the directory. This is what comskip normally generates for MPEG video. That said, I dont this error would stop playback. Either way, try renaming or removing this text file.

[JasonDark]

Thanks for your response.

You could try increasing the 'MVP Transcode pre-play delay' setting in the config app. Playing avi files does require quite a bit of CPU grunt. You PC effectively needs to be able decode the video and re-encode as MPEG, all in realtime.

I´ve tried it, but same effect. The MVP Transcode pre-play delay was set to "15000" from "6000". This seems to extend the time till the MVP jumps back to the menu, but only around the seconds which I add.

Its probably caused by a text file of the same name in the directory. This is what comskip normally generates for MPEG video. That said, I dont this error would stop playback. Either way, try renaming or removing this text file.

There are no text files in that directory. Maybe its a result of long file names? Because there are two video files which got nearly the same name (last digit is different). But i´m with you that this wouldn´t stop playback, therefore I wrote this as p.s.


Do you have any ideas about my network problems with GB-PVR? Server and MVP hang on the same switch, and transfer to another pc works very well. Like i said above, with the MediaMVP Software i can play films which were saved on a network disk.

Code:

21.06.2005 23:34:54.640 ERROR [2] MVP Timer Refresh error: Eine bestehende Verbindung wurde softwaregesteuert durch den Hostcomputer abgebrochen 21.06.2005 23:34:54.671 ERROR [2] at System.Net.Sockets.Socket.Send(Byte[] buffer, Int32 offset, Int32 size, SocketFlags socketFlags) at System.Net.Sockets.Socket.Send(Byte[] buffer, Int32 size, SocketFlags socketFlags) at q.a(Boolean A_0) at q.c(Object A_0, EventArgs A_1)

And this error seems to be caused by something else.
This won´t solve my problems with .avi files, but it gives me more diskspace to convert them to MPEG.

Greetings
JD

[bluesxman]

The LAN access problem you have sounds like the userid that the gbpvr service runs under does not have rights to access your video files on your remote server. This has cropped up a few times so a quick forum search should throw up some more details.

[JasonDark]

The LAN access problem you have sounds like the userid that the gbpvr service runs under does not have rights to access your video files on your remote server. This has cropped up a few times so a quick forum search should throw up some more details.

Thanks, one part of my mind knew it, but didn´t told me... I´ll give it a try later.