Introducing mvpmc

[tkgafs]

Hi Martin,

just started playing with this dongle again tonight after a brief look last year.

Seems to start up ok although I see similar things to jksmurf first load is quick but subsequent loads seem to go further and further into the xx/30 tries.

I use musiclibrary2 as my music player and it only seems to work with your dongle for selecting and starting playing music no navigation around the playlist seems to work

in general the display is abit big for my screen is there anyway to change screen size ?

keep up the good work

tkgafs

[mvallevand]

just started playing with this dongle again tonight after a brief look last year.

Are you using 0.3.3 or my alpha?

Seems to start up ok although I see similar things to jksmurf first load is quick but subsequent loads seem to go further and further into the xx/30 tries.

This is baffling how do you power off the mvp and how do you start gbpvr with the icon or via the config mvp option?

I use musiclibrary2 as my music player and it only seems to work with your dongle for selecting and starting playing music no navigation around the playlist seems to work

I'll have a look, I have it installed but didn't see anything odd, but I have to figure out what remote control difference there is before I comment. I really like the looks of musiclibrary2 too but I moved to native flac for my collection.

in general the display is abit big for my screen is there anyway to change screen size ?

This is something I'd like comments on, I actually tell gbpvr that I have 720 resolution to allow a higher resolution image, and I haven't noticed a problem but maybe it is too non-standard. You should be able control the image size with the gbpvr plugin.

keep up the good work

Thanks, and thanks for the feedback.

Martin

[tkgafs]

Are you using 0.3.3 or my alpha?

I am using 0.3.3

This is baffling how do you power off the mvp and how do you start gbpvr with the icon or via the config mvp option?

I used the power button on the remote

I'd be pleased if you could have a look at the musiclibrary plugin as it seems fairly problematic for me at least

tkgafs

[mvallevand]

I'd be pleased if you could have a look at the musiclibrary plugin as it seems fairly problematic for me at least

There was a logic problem with keystokes not being accepted after a file is fully buffered to the mvpmc playback cache since I hadn't planned on such an interactive plugin as musiclibrary2. If you are interested I try and keep an alpha dongle on http://www.mvpmc.org/~mvallevand with changes I think are worth releasing like this, before I build the source code to mvpmc.

Martin

[tkgafs]

There was a logic problem with keystokes not being accepted after a file is fully buffered to the mvpmc playback cache since I hadn't planned on such an interactive plugin as musiclibrary2. If you are interested I try and keep an alpha dongle on http://www.mvpmc.org/~mvallevand with changes I think are worth releasing like this, before I build the source code to mvpmc.

Martin

I'll try it out when I get home tonight

Tkgafs

[tkgafs]

Hi Martin

downloaded your latest alpha mentioned above

musiclibrary2 still problematic

I use the random mode of ml2 [press red button to get a random playlist]

If I simply leave the playlist playing it seems to be ok

if a track is playing and you press the skip button >| on the remote after about 10 seconds the track skips to the next track [with the hauppauge dongle the skip is immediate] but it only plays about 5 secs of music and then stops, if you press play it will play the same 5 seconds again

if you use the arrow keys to navigate around the playlist and press play on a track once again it only plays the first few seconds of the track

is there anything you like me to do to help with debugging

tkgafs

PS just added a debug level logfile which shows what I happens

in this case I started playing Sweetheart By Kevin Coyne let play for a minute of so then skipped forward to the next track in the playlist which is wallflower by peter gabriel

22/02/2007 00:35:36.246 VERBOSE [23] User pressed: 37 :- presumably this is the skip forward

then about 19 seconds after pressing the skip this is logged

22/02/2007 00:35:55.168 VERBOSE [25] About to start playback of Q:\Music\Include\Peter Gabriel\PG IV Security\07 - Wallflower.mp3


then we see
22/02/2007 00:36:02.152 VERBOSE [24] Request 20000 bytes (file size:9478144 file location: 0)

but after that there are no more requests for bytes

I then pressed the down arrow about 4 times to select

22/02/2007 00:36:31.324 VERBOSE [25] About to start playback of Q:\Music\Include\David Bowie\Aladdin Sane\03 - Drive In Saturday.mp3

but once again there is one request for data but no more
22/02/2007 00:36:31.605 VERBOSE [24] Request 20000 bytes (file size:6541085 file location: 0

hope this sheds some light on things

[tkgafs]

Hi Martin,

just tried changing the mvp screen size/position and it does not seem to work using your latest dongle, although the same settings appear to work correctly with the hauppauge dongle

I used the plugin with your dongle and set the dimensions as follows

x 624
y 504
x offset 44
y offset 36

I am using a 16:9 pal television to view the output

with these settings the image was about 1 cm smaller all round the screen using the hauppauge dongle but unchanged with your dongle

hope you get this dongle working succesfully and I am happy to test things as required

I particularly like being able to power off or reboot with out having to pull the power cord out

Tkgafs

[mvallevand]

if a track is playing and you press the skip button >| on the remote after about 10 seconds the track skips to the next track [with the hauppauge dongle the skip is immediate] but it only plays about 5 secs of music and then stops, if you press play it will play the same 5 seconds again

if you use the arrow keys to navigate around the playlist and press play on a track once again it only plays the first few seconds of the track

That actually helps a lot.

is there anything you like me to do to help with debugging

What you've done so far is a good start. I can turn on my own debug logging too, but it is a bit technical and you'd have to be able to capture telnet output to a file using putty or redirect to a file on a Windows share

PS just added a debug level logfile which shows what I happens

How can I not help someone else who listens to Kevin Coyne.

Martin

[mvallevand]

just tried changing the mvp screen size/position and it does not seem to work using your latest dongle, although the same settings appear to work correctly with the hauppauge dongle

I'll try your setting to see how they look. If you have never flashed the Hauppauge saving the aspect ratio, you might need to use the mvpmc command line or main menu setup to change it.

hope you get this dongle working succesfully and I am happy to test things as required

I particularly like being able to power off or reboot with out having to pull the power cord out

I hope so too, and I hope that eventually that there will be to like than easy rebooting!

Martin

[HtV]

How can I not help someone else who listens to Kevin Coyne.

Sorry to intrude: How is Kevin, last time I heard him must be ~25 yrs ago. I worked in a bar that time and there was a cassette from him we played alot. I really liked him then, but kind of forgot about him. Pfew.. brings back memories.