Enhanced Web Admin

cubsfan · 2006-07-21, 02:34 AM

HTPCGB Wrote:Doesn't GBPVR stuff not work on Vista? (Last time I tried it didn't.)

Let me reiterate that all the GBPVR stuff is running on a windows XP machine. I actually experience these same issues if the client accessing the EWA is on a Windows Vista machine or a Windows XP machine. This is a server side issue.

UncleJohnsBand · 2006-07-21, 04:32 AM

m.clizzle Wrote:Streaming with EWA question:

has anyone else encountered a problem with the sound? the audio seems to be doubling up. a split second after a word is said, it is repeated. this continues on throughout the whole stream.....not that i have patiently waited that long.

Is this on your LAN or over the Internet.....what settings are you using.....you can test if it is a machine issue (which most likley it is) by reducing the bitrate to the lowest as well as the screen size......if you don't see the problem then....you PC is either underpowerd to transcode at the higher rates or you have an up bandwidth issue....

If you are streaming over the internet and only have a 384k up stream like I do 256 can be pushing the limt depending on traffic......

UncleJohnsBand · (This post was last modified: 2006-07-21, 04:45 AM by UncleJohnsBand.)

cubsfan Wrote:Let me reiterate that all the GBPVR stuff is running on a windows XP machine. I actually experience these same issues if the client accessing the EWA is on a Windows Vista machine or a Windows XP machine. This is a server side issue.

The streamer works by starting VLC and having it stream your video to the port you designated at the bitrate, screen size and video/audio/mux option that is set.

You should make sure that your streaming port is open on all firewalls. You will want to make sure that you do not have any virus scanning software scanning the directory where your recordings reside.

If you do not click the End Stream red button before closing the window you have left the VLC process run wild on the server.....when you go to stream again it will kill all VLC processes on the server prior to launching the new recording stream......but if you do not click that button and end the stream VLC will continue streaming to that port on the server which I imagine could cause headaches on the server at some point.

Also....I see you are using port 8080....are you using the GBPVR webb host or some other host such as IIS or Apache?

If you want to see and be able to kill processes running on the server save this code to a .aspx file in the web directory....then access the page remotely and you can see what procs are running on the server and kill then if you need to.....

Code:
<%@ Page Language="c#" %>

<HTML>

<HEAD>

<% @ Import namespace= "System.Diagnostics" %>

<script language="C#" runat="Server" >

void Page_Load(Object Sender, EventArgs e){

btnKill.Attributes.Add("onclick", "javascript: return confirm('Are you sure you want to KILL this process?');");

} 

private void KillProcess(string processName){

System.Diagnostics.Process myproc= new System.Diagnostics.Process();

//Get all instances of proc that are open, attempt to close them.

try{

foreach (Process thisproc in Process.GetProcessesByName(processName)) {

if(!thisproc.CloseMainWindow()){

//If closing is not successful or no desktop window handle, then force termination.

thisproc.Kill();

}

} // next proc

}

catch(Exception Exc)

{

msg.Text+= "Attempt to kill " +procname.SelectedItem.Text + " Failed. ";

}

}

public void btnKill_Click(object sender, System.EventArgs e)

{

KillProcess(procname.SelectedItem.Text);

msg.Text= procname.SelectedItem.Text +" is dead, Baby!";

}

public void btnShow_Click(object sender, System.EventArgs e){

ArrayList procList =new ArrayList();

string tempName="";

int begpos;

int endpos;

foreach (Process thisProc in System.Diagnostics.Process.GetProcesses()) {

tempName=thisProc.ToString();

begpos = tempName.IndexOf("(")+1;

endpos= tempName.IndexOf(")");

tempName=tempName.Substring(begpos,endpos-begpos);

procList.Add(tempName);

}

procname.DataSource=procList;

procname.DataBind(); 

}

</script>

</HEAD>

<body>

<Basefont Face="Tahoma" />

<center><h2>ASP.NET PROCESS KILLER!</h2><BR>

<Table cellspacing=2 cellpadding=2 border=0 BGCOLOR="#fFCC66">

<form id="frmProc" runat="Server" method="post">

<TR><TD><ASP:DropDownList id="procname" runat="server"

/></TD><TD>

Process Name to Kill</TD></TR>

<TR><TD>

<asp:button id="btnKill" Text="Kill Process" runat="server"

CausesValidation="False" onclick="btnKill_Click" />

</TD>

<TD><asp:button id="btnShow" Text="Show Processes"

runat="server" CausesValidation="False" onclick="btnShow_Click"

/>

</TD></TR>

</TABLE>

<center><asp:Label id="msg" runat="server"/></center>

</form>

</center>

</body>

</HTML>

UncleJohnsBand · 2006-07-21, 04:52 AM

FYI......I am going on vacation for a week and will only have dial-up access available so my monitoring this coming week will be minimal.

I have another 2-week vacation coming up shortly after this one so be prepared. Big Grin

cubsfan · (This post was last modified: 2006-07-23, 07:54 PM by cubsfan.)

UncleJohnsBand Wrote:The streamer works by starting VLC and having it stream your video to the port you designated at the bitrate, screen size and video/audio/mux option that is set.

You should make sure that your streaming port is open on all firewalls. You will want to make sure that you do not have any virus scanning software scanning the directory where your recordings reside.

If you do not click the End Stream red button before closing the window you have left the VLC process run wild on the server.....when you go to stream again it will kill all VLC processes on the server prior to launching the new recording stream......but if you do not click that button and end the stream VLC will continue streaming to that port on the server which I imagine could cause headaches on the server at some point.

Also....I see you are using port 8080....are you using the GBPVR webb host or some other host such as IIS or Apache?

If you want to see and be able to kill processes running on the server save this code to a .aspx file in the web directory....then access the page remotely and you can see what procs are running on the server and kill then if you need to.....

Thanks I'll try the code out. I am using the GBPVR web hose but I just changed the default port to 8080. I guess I could also try going back to the default port and see if that helps any. I do have port 8080 and the VLC port open on my firewall so I don't think that is an issue as I also experience these issues from inside my firewall. A typical scenario would be I would start a stream and launch VLC to start playing the stream while still leaving the window open that has the launch and kill stream buttons on it. Then I will close VLC and then sometimes when I go to hit the kill stream button it will work great and other times it will hang and then everytime I try to go to a webpage I get that screenshot I posted earlier.

Update: I tried again with the process viewer code in place and got it to hang again but when it hangs I can not get to any page on the webserver. Every page I try to go to I get that same screenshot that I posted earlier. I guess I'll try switching ports and see if that helps any. It's almost like VLC takes over as the webserver or something since it has that VLC link at the bottom of the page.

Update: I changed the EWA port back to the default and did a little searching and low and behold VLC actually has a small built in web server that runs on port 8080. What are the chances? Apparently pretty good. Anyways, after you start a stream if you go to port 8080 on the server machine you get a nice little GUI that you can use to control the stream as well. http://192.168.1.3:8080/ . So I guess at this point I would like to make a suggestion that if possible we can configure the port that the VLC webserver runs on from the EWA configuration page. If not, no big deal. Thanks for all the hard work the EWA is awesome.

adrian_vg@yahoo.com · 2006-07-25, 07:54 PM

KingArgyle Wrote:Enhanced Web Admin:
Download Location:
http://gbpvr.com/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Utili...edWebAdmin

The Enhanced Web Admin was originally started by KingArgyle, to add a much needed Search feature to the Web Administration. The enhanced web admin has been incorporated as a standard distribution with GBPVR, but the version that ships is a few releases behind.

Hi,

Is the Enhanced Webadmin feature still lagging with the GBPVR v0.97.13 release?

Except for the search function, is there any other difference the bundled and the separate download?

TIA.

***sub*** · 2006-07-25, 07:59 PM

The version included with GB-PVR is the current version of the Enhanced Web Admin at the time of the release.

adrian_vg@yahoo.com · 2006-07-25, 08:02 PM

sub Wrote:The version included with GB-PVR is the current version of the Enhanced Web Admin at the time of the release.

Ok, thx for the info!

jim08127 · 2006-07-26, 02:26 AM

Not sure if anyone else has reported this exact problem before.

I use the EWA a lot and for the most part it works great. But also I experience a seemingly random problem where the EWA web server stops responding. I cannot say what causes it other than it has happened on various pages (tabs) and it seems to mostly happen when I am recording something. Another symptom is that the gbpvr tray icon cannot talk to the recording service after the web server hangs. It happens while accessing the EWA remotely and from the localhost as well.

I can however still use the GB PVR application via a MediaMVP though. In order to get the webserver going again I have to kill the recording service via the task manager and then restart it.

I have never seen any errors in any GB PVR logs as a result.

I am currently running version 42 of the EWA the other system specs are in my sig. I generally use firefox as the browser to access the EWA.

Any suggestions?

sgilani · 2006-07-29, 01:19 PM

UncleJohnsBand,

Just a thought about the streaming functionality.. if the config is set for VLC as the external player, it would be better to send the metafile with a .vlc extension since this should let the browser correctly send the metafile over to VLC.. at least with firefox, i dunno about IE Smile

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