GBPVR and mvpmc

[jbyram2]

That's really good!

I didn't want to load my GBPVR server with another DHCP and TFTP service, and now I don't need to !

I'll try it out tonite.

[bofh]

I gave this a try last night. Quite a bit more responsive the the regular dongle.

• The commercial skipping isn't as abrupt so it feels more like using GBPVR on the PC.
  
• The recorded videos seem to be smoother and visually better
  
• Some features do not seem to work, like 999, mini guide, haven't tried everything yet.
  
• Less stable, seems to crash more often for no apparent reason
  
• Requires a stop for a playing video, Back/exit doesn't work
  

[jbyram2]

Using mvpmc 0.3.1:

-emulation mode didn't work for me. I'll check GBPVR logs to see if there are any clues.
-booted quickly

Using mvallevand's alpha dongle:

-Emulation mode worked, except was more sluggish than hauppauge dongle.
-Stayed at http://www.mvpmc.org splash screen for a minute or more before booting.
-Did not find dongle.config in mvpmc share. I was able to mount correctly using telnet and a user account. does that mvpmc share need to be a guest account?

[mvallevand]

Using mvpmc 0.3.1:

-emulation mode didn't work for me. I'll check GBPVR logs to see if there are any clues.
-booted quickly

Using mvallevand's alpha dongle:

-Emulation mode worked, except was more sluggish than hauppauge dongle.
-Stayed at http://www.mvpmc.org splash screen for a minute or more before booting.
-Did not find dongle.config in mvpmc share. I was able to mount correctly using telnet and a user account. does that mvpmc share need to be a guest account?

- I will be checking in code soon so it will be in next release. I need Hauppauge's help to finish off a few things but that will have to wait.
- the longer start up is mvpmc trying to find a config file via tftp. If the share was available or you had a tftp server on your gbpvr box that would go away
- it looks for dongle.bin.config in the mvpmc share and yes it tries to login as guest.

Martin

[Fatawan]

Martin--could the MVP be made to play high definition files?

[mvallevand]

Martin--could the MVP be made to play high definition files?

Fundamentally mvpmc and the Hauppauge dongle will have the same results. The hardware mpeg decoder on the mvp can only do MPEG-2 MP@ML which is 720x576 or 720x480 You can increase the bitrate so it is higher the dvd but you can't get hd resolution.

Martin

[jbyram2]

I must have something up with my server, since I can't mount a drive as guest.

using telnet

Code:

mkdir /test
mount.cifs //192.168.1.100/mvpmc /test/ -o username=guest,password=guest,ro

fails with mount error 22= invalid argument

but if I use my name and password it works.

Server is running WinXP Pro, SP1
Simple fie sharing is turned off, guest account is enabled and has read permissions for the share.

password for guest account is "guest"

[mvallevand]

I gave this a try last night. Quite a bit more responsive the the regular dongle.

The commercial skipping isn't as abrupt so it feels more like using GBPVR on the PC.
The recorded videos seem to be smoother and visually better

This could be placebo effect I think there is more caching with mvpmc which could help.

Some features do not seem to work, like 999, mini guide, haven't tried everything yet.

I don't know why 999 wouldn't work I send the keys and gbpvr controls the video stream.

The mini guide is another issue. It actually hilites where I am having my two biggest problems understanding the Hauppauge protocol, figuring out when to ask for osd refreshes while a video is playing and how to do channel changing properly. I don't transition from one file to another when it is controlled by gbpvr properly and gbpvr eventually will disconnect unexpectedly.

Less stable, seems to crash more often for no apparent reason

I have pretty much narrowed problems to changing channels in live tv or the guide and in the play all video. If you find another let me know.

Requires a stop for a playing video, Back/exit doesn't work

I didn't know it was supposed too, it's not actually a logical key to me, but I will look into it.

Thanks for the feedback.

Martin

[bofh]

Thanks for the feedback.

Martin

It's a step in the right direction. If I provide feedback, maybe you will fix
things .

So I played with it a little more. I have to switch back to the Hauppauge dongle because the wife does not approve.

The biggest problem I do see is the hitting of the keys on the remote and having the screen update correctly. In my previous post I pointed out a few places where the keys didn't work as expected. Using it more, I have found that all keys at one point or another fail to work. So the FAST FORWARD fails, the SKIP fails, etc but sometimes it works.

[mvallevand]

It's a step in the right direction. If I provide feedback, maybe you will fix
things .

So I played with it a little more. I have to switch back to the Hauppauge dongle because the wife does not approve.

The biggest problem I do see is the hitting of the keys on the remote and having the screen update correctly. In my previous post I pointed out a few places where the keys didn't work as expected. Using it more, I have found that all keys at one point or another fail to work. So the FAST FORWARD fails, the SKIP fails, etc but sometimes it works.

I should have made it clearer that right now it is not going to be better than the Hauppauge dongle, because I am still at the point of understanding the protocol. I agree with your comments and easily fixed the exit problem I simply hadn't allowed it in av mode.

Emulation mode is really just a client responding to messages from two servers and the fact that it generally works and then doesn't, at least that is my experience, to me is positive. I have now got the basics but every once in a while I send something to gbpvr that upsets the client/server arrangement. I am actually working with Hauppauge to better understand their logic and I expect this to change.

I also have to do a bit more to syncing the video play code and the video stream receive code before I would say it could replace Hauppauge in the living room for video.

Martin.