MVP, DIXV, half-screen & Trans2MVP.bat

[jbs0902]

OK I give up. I am missing something obvious.

I am using an H2 series wired MVP & GB-PVR 0.97.9, NTSC 4:3.

I have 2 problems with the MVP that I cannot figure out. Although I think that if I solve issue #1, issue #2 will go away.

My Issues:
1) I cannot get Trans2MVP.bat to run naturally from the MVP. And
2) When I get my videos transcoded (w/o Trans2MVP.bat) my videos are in the top half of the screen.
All videos are non-PVR recordings. Meaning I got them some other way then having GB-PVR record them. (I have no TV tuner.)

I have attached both my config.xml & my trans2mvp.bat files. (Renamed with *.txt extensions). I got Trans2MVP.bat from this forum thread, http://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.php?t=15156

Reboots of the PC & MVP occur between each scenario. (Yes it has fallen to that).

Scenario #1
I delete Trans2MVP.bat. I select a Video from “Video Lib”. Trans2MVP.EXE appears to run. I see the video but on the top half of the screen.
No amount of fooling with the MVPOffset et. al fields in the config.xml seems to work.

Scenario #2:
I put Trans2MVP.BAT back in the “C:\Program Files\gbpvr\” folder. I select a Video from “Video Lib”. Trans2MVP.bat does not seem to run. I get no DOS box on the PC, or else it pops up and dies too fast. The MVP screen goes black, and then reboots.

Scenario #3:
On the PC, I move Trans2MVP.bat from the “C:\Program Files\gbpvr\” folder to the desktop. I drag-n-drop an AVI file onto the BAT file. It pops up the DOS box, and the *.MPG file is created in the same directory as the AVI file.
I go back to the MVP. I select the (as yet unfinished) MPG file from “Video Lib”. Nirvana. The video plays. It plays using the entire screen. As long as the instance of Trans2MVP.bat that I initiated on the PC keeps ahead of the MVP, everything works.

Analysis:
So, I am hoping that if I can figure out how to get Trans2MVP.bat to run naturally from the MVP my videos will magically start to play using the entire screen.
In 0.97.9, the MVP tab in Config no longer has the FFMpeg & FFShow options. I have to go into config.xml to change those.
I found somewhere in the forums that I need MVPTranscodeUsingFFmpeg = false (in XML format) in the config.xml. I have so modified my config.xml file, but no luck.

What am I doing wrong?
Thanks

[cakes]

I think that you should change the ffmpeg lines in the script for use with NTSC. ALso you may try a lower outputsize than 720x480. On your PC transcoding to 720x480 will work fine, but it may be too slow for streaming to the MVP. Try with the NTSC settings from you config.xml:

<MVPFFmpegTranscodeCmdLineNTSC>-y -i "{SOURCE_FILE}" {SEEK_CMD} -b 2400 -ac 2 -ab 224 -r 29.97 -s 352x240 -f svcd "{DEST_FILE}"</MVPFFmpegTranscodeCmdLineNTSC>

[HtV]

Change this one to true and it will (try) to use trans2mvp.bat. I still haven't got it to work but it sure tries.:o

MVPTranscodeUsingFFmpeg>false</MVPTranscodeUsingFFmpeg>

[ccsnet]

If its any helps I get the same prob running Dvix's under the current Beta of the MVP software from their site.....

Terran

[jbs0902]

Hah hah!!
Problem solved!
Thanks to turning echo on and running Trans2MVP.bat from a 2nd batch file that redirected STDOUT to a LOG file.

My problem was two fold (and I'll double post this to the Trans2MVP.bat thread).
1) I needed to add ffmeg to my PATH (via the Sytem Control Panel & reboot). cd'ing to the directory was not sufficent.
2) Trans2MVP.bat (this version) dies if your Recordings/Live TV Buffer directory has a space in the pathname. My directory was in "C:\Documents and Settings\..." so the BAT would die at the if "%2"=="" ( line because it got confused about the space. I changed my directories to c:\tmp. No problem.

Now I have the problem that when I hit "Stop" on the remote while playing a 1st video the transcoding continues and if I play a 2nd video, I get the 1st video. BUt I'll work on that later.