2009-04-15, 04:28 AM
Quote:Regarding the screen size during beta testing there was a bit of discussion over whether Fit or Full should be the default to fill the screen.I had it set to Fit to Screen. When I set it to Full Screen, mvpmx2 did indeed work for 16:9 material. Unfortunately it also stretches 2.35:1 material vertically, filling the screen which is why I've used Fit to screen in the past.
Quote:You are running in PCH2 mode correct?Correct
Code:
<MVPClientType>PCH2</MVPClientType>
<MVPWidth>1280</MVPWidth>
<MVPHeight>720</MVPHeight>
Quote:I will look into mkv, I know I don't reset the libraries after returning, but I have found that they do so themselves (after about a 10 second wait). If this continues to be an issue I will add the reset. Keep me advised.I did some testing tonight and noticed that when this happened that PVRX2.exe dies and restarts. The TV has a black screen for a few seconds and then displays "No Signal" I've attached the logs.
I did a few hours of testing with transport streams and ran into a few issues that I'm still trying to sort out. I noticed two kinds of dropouts while watching TS files. The first type was like a delay and I noticed that DISK IO on the server dropped off during these instances. I was recording/comskipping two shows and I wondered what kind of IO mpvmx2 might be using while serving the PCH. Does it use the live TV directory? The recordings drive is a 2 disk RAID 0 array so I wouldn't expect a bottleneck but it seemed like it was being affected.
The second dropout seemed to be related to errors on the transport stream that I found out later when I scanned the files. I know it wouldn't be part of the current version of mvpmx2 but are there any future plans to correct such errors on the fly? When played directly on the PCH they usually show up as a few scrambled blocks on the screen. In mvpmx2, the audio and video dropout for a very short time and then resync.
One other curious thing I noticed was that during one of the shows, the audio and video would drop out, then the info box would pop up on the tv which usually happens when the resolution changes and then the audio and video would resume. This happened about every 20 seconds for a few minutes before I reset everything. This only happened that one time and it hasn't happened since.
Even with everything mentioned above, the majority of the testing went well with TS files.