Emulation mode testing Round III

[mvallevand]

Pieter, I see the same behaviour.

Hans, I think I've isolated part of the problem to the skin that Pieter uses, ContourHC, which seems to support a very small livetv window on the bottom right side as opposed to the 1/8 size window on the left side of the default blue skin that I am used to seeing. I have some work do do with this on the positioning of this tv window. (As it turns out countourHC has some problems with the size and location of the video inset window, it doens't show on the Hauppauge dongle either)

What skin do you use?

Martin

[HtV]

Hi Martin,

I'll try to describe what I see when I push home/menu during livetv.
I see the video-inset on the middle/right side of the screen but the rest of the screen is black. If I push menu again 2x the screen is ok.

I think I was "triggered" mainly by the fact that Pieter also got a black screen with video-inset. That made me overlook the differences.
I read Pieters initial post again, it's still a bit confusing to me: when you push menu during livetv you are supposed to get the menu, not the guide, right?

Pieter:

I should have mentioned this before: When I am watching Live TV and than press the menu button on the remote the TV guide is black except for a tiny video inset in the left lower corner. Pushing menu two more times brings up the TV Guide.

Well I hope you got the relevant info out of it.

cya Hans

[pz1]

I read Pieters initial post again, it's still a bit confusing

Sorry, it is just wrong what I said. I had the machine switched of because we had guests over who were using my 'GBPVR server room' (That's the luxury you get when the kids have left home ). So the machine was off, and I did not properly check the events. It is indeed the menu as Hans says, and indeed the video inset is at the right hand side.

[HtV]

Well, that's from 2 problems down to 1.

[mvallevand]

Sorry, it is just wrong what I said. I had the machine switched of because we had guests over who were using my 'GBPVR server room' (That's the luxury you get when the kids have left home ). So the machine was off, and I did not properly check the events. It is indeed the menu as Hans says, and indeed the video inset is at the right hand side.

That helps so much, I spent 1/2 hour trying to get the TV Guide to come up with the menu key. I also spent another 2 hours fighting with Vista and the Hauppauge drivers trying to get NTSC back for live tv after using PAL on the composite in but that's another story.

I think the blank screen problem is because gbpvr is assuming something is already on screen that I must clear. It's not a simple thing, I think you will find if you hit pause/unpause and then menu, the screen will not be blank because gbpvr sends an alpha channel update to this buffer. I'm basically trying to hunt down what clear I am doing incorrectly.

The problem I thought was the issue relates to countourHC. If you see this image from the wiki http://gbpvr.com/pmwiki/uploads/Skin/chc_tvguide.jpg
the inset video is at the bottom right, and mvpmc (and as I found out) the Hauppauge dongle show it at the right but there is a place for it. I can hard code it to show there but I can't do it based on the numbers that I get.

There is another problem because the mvpmc emulation screen is slightly offset to the right but that has been an issue since I started this. It is most noticable with the tiny video inset because it displays a little bit to the left of the screen.

Down from 2 to 1 but reallly there are 3 problems on my list.

Martin

[pz1]

That helps so much, I spent 1/2 hour trying to get the TV Guide to come up with the menu key. I also spent another 2 hours fighting with Vista and the Hauppauge drivers trying to get NTSC back for live tv after using PAL on the composite in but that's another story.
Martin

Martin, I really feel embarrased. My apologies for the inconvenience
Pieter

[pz1]

The problem I thought was the issue relates to countourHC. If you see this image from the wiki http://gbpvr.com/pmwiki/uploads/Skin/chc_tvguide.jpg
the inset video is at the bottom right, and mvpmc (and as I found out) the Hauppauge dongle show it at the right but there is a place for it. I can hard code it to show there but I can't do it based on the numbers that I get.

Well maybe I should change to the default skin. ContourHC itself has not been updated for more than a year.

[HtV]

Just to be complete: I use the blue skin.

[mvallevand]

Martin, I really feel embarrased. My apologies for the inconvenience
Pieter

Embarrasing would be me trying to reply to you in Dutch. I stayed 3 weeks in The Netherlands and I actually started to pick it up a tiny, tiny bit, but that was a long time ago, and I couldn't even go to the bar and order a beer or to the drug store for licorice anymore.

BTW I didn't notice any problem with the Countour skin so I wouldn't worry about it.

Martin

[tkgafs]

Martin,

very strange behaviour last night and seems to have just been a once off.

I started up the mvp after reloading my server

started playing music , but when the screen saver kicked in the music stopped.

naturally I was a bit perplexed by this and pressed go go on the remote to see if the mvp thought it was playing and as soon as the screen refreshed the music started again, from where it had paused.

using the 11th of May dongle

forgot to look at logs but they will probably still be there if you are interested

Tkgafs

Martin,

I can now confirm this is not a one off problem but has now happened several times.

The problem has only started since I changed to the 11th May dongle.

It is intermittent and unpredictable but basically appears as either the first track stops playing when the screen saver kicks in but if just press a button on the remote so the screen saver goes off then the music restarts from where it was actually playing, or sometimes the next track in a playlist simply doesnt start when the previous one ends when this happens you have to go into the ML2 playlist and press skip backwards then skip forwards and once again the music starts playing.

I have spent the day running gbpvr in debug mode, ML2 with insane amounts of logging, and running your test dongle capturing the putty log and of course the problem has not occured.

But I have noticed that the display in the putty output always show the same size and bit rate for the mp3 file " bps 192 length 5695866 dropoff 0"

which is not the correct size or bit rate for the mp3
for example the first track is 3536kb with a bit rate of 160

not sure if any of this is relevant though !!

extract from putty log follows

output thread started
Starting rfb timer
c ss timeout 49 mode 30 un1 30 un2 0
20 ss timeout 0 mode 0 un1 0 un2 0
18:12:24 bps 192 length 5695866 dropoff 0
Starting to play audio file 'Q:\Music\Include\ELVISP~1\20-CAN~1.MP3'
3620657 Remaining 2075209
Done with audio file
18:15:25 bps 192 length 5695866 dropoff 0
Starting to play audio file 'Q:\Music\Include\CALEXI~1\06-SUN~1.MP3'
3735552 Remaining 1960314
Done with audio file
18:18:08 bps 192 length 5695866 dropoff 0
Starting to play audio file 'Q:\Music\Include\LINDSA~1\09-PRI~1.MP3'
1116076 Remaining 4579790
Done with audio file
18:18:54 bps 192 length 5695866 dropoff 0
Starting to play audio file 'Q:\Music\Include\Eno\INSTRU~1\CD1\28-DRI~1.MP3'
3649536 Remaining 2046330
Done with audio file


Anything you want me to try to locate the problem

Tkgafs