Emulation mode testing Round III

[mvallevand]

Today I played a bit with dongle alpha 20070508. It is the most stable I had sofar. I have only tested Live TV and Videos, because the previous versions almost all went out of sync after changing channels and running videos. That did not happen in the last 3 hours with this version.

I'm glad that the stability is improving. The credit really should go to sub, gbpvr 99.12 is incredibly predictable. which made emulating the Hauppauge dongle a lot easier.

I noted one thing: The text of the TV Guide disappears, and only the video inset is visisble after a few seconds. Pressing the navigation keys do bring back the TV Guide information.

I don't fully understand what the problem is. I know if you use inset video on the first video before using any OSD gbpvr doesn't send a screen update but this happens just once. Is that the problem?

Martin

[pz1]

I don't fully understand what the problem is. I know if you use inset video on the first video before using any OSD gbpvr doesn't send a screen update but this happens just once. Is that the problem?
Martin

What I see is that in TV guide the screen goes completely black except for the small video window in the lower left corner. If I leave the system untouched, I see every 5 seconds or so a short flash of the TV Guide content on screen. After I touch one of the up/down left/right keys, the TV guide content appears for a 5 second period, but then disappears again. (the 5 seconds are a rough guess). I did not notice this with the ealier versions, or with the standard dongle. I could check an older version if that helps?

[HtV]

I tried the 5-08 dongle. I really am impressed, couldn't get it to crash:mad: . I created the mvpmc-share with the config in it to auto-start emulation mode, bingo worked right away.
Only thing I noticed is that the volume button on the mvp-remote doesn't work, is this on purpose? This is fine with me as I always use the volume on the tv or amp. Just thought I'd mention it.
I think I'm gonna use it as default with gbpvr, had some troubles lately with other dongles and the remote and with unwanted disconnects from the server. We'll see how it goes on the longer run.
Thanks alot for the hard work.
cya Hans

[pz1]

Only thing I noticed is that the volume button on the mvp-remote doesn't work, is this on purpose?
cya Hans

For me the volume button works. Do we get personalised bugs?

[HtV]

Do we get personalised bugs?

Looks like it.
Maybe it's something in the settings.

Did you see the reply in the other thread, about the autostarting emulating mode?

[mvallevand]

What I see is that in TV guide the screen goes completely black except for the small video window in the lower left corner. If I leave the system untouched, I see every 5 seconds or so a short flash of the TV Guide content on screen. After I touch one of the up/down left/right keys, the TV guide content appears for a 5 second period, but then disappears again. (the 5 seconds are a rough guess). I did not notice this with the ealier versions, or with the standard dongle. I could check an older version if that helps?

Thanks, that helped and I've uploaded a fix for this. I was working with the Hauppauge server and I put in a change to erase their OSD alpha screens after 5 seconds without a change because it annoyed me. I've special cased the code to the Hauppauge.

For me the volume button works. Do we get personalised bugs?

There should be plenty to go around.

Martin

[mvallevand]

Only thing I noticed is that the volume button on the mvp-remote doesn't work, is this on purpose? This is fine with me as I always use the volume on the tv or amp. Just thought I'd mention it.

I realize what's happening here. There is a little bug (I think in gbpvr) because with the new Hauppauge remotes GBPVR sends two vol. up/down commands to mvpmc when they vol +/- key is pushed. Figuring I'd be tricky I added the volume change code on the key press. Trouble with this is the old style remotes (I'm assuming like yours) don't have the dedicated volume keys, so my fix wasn't so good. I've coded it properly now and I just ignore a duplicate volume command and this is now uploaded in the alpha.

Martin

[HtV]

Ok, Martin
Downloaded the latest alpha (5-11), the volume works ok now, although I won't use it.
One thing I saw(once or twice): there was a small piece of the gbpvr-main-menu showing through/ontop-of the guide. A button press made it disappear.
I've been using your dongle today, almost the whole day. It's great, it didn't reboot or whatever once.
The posibility to autostart it in emulating mode makes it ready for normal use (well...what I think is normal )
I really am very happy with this.

cya Hans

[HtV]

Trouble with this is the old style remotes (I'm assuming like yours) don't have the dedicated volume keys, so my fix wasn't so good. I've coded it properly now and I just ignore a duplicate volume command and this is now uploaded in the alpha.

Martin

I forgot this: my remote does have dedicated volume keys. But as I said in the previous post they are working now. So,.....your assumption may have been wrong, the solution was right. I think it's more often the other way round.

cya Hans

[mvallevand]

I forgot this: my remote does have dedicated volume keys. But as I said in the previous post they are working now. So,.....your assumption may have been wrong, the solution was right. I think it's more often the other way round.

cya Hans

That's really strange if you say you have the remote on the right here http://mvpmc.wikispaces.com/remote
but as you say it works.

Martin