Emulation mode testing Round II

[bofh]

Just tried your latest dongle on my AMD X2 4600 with a H2 MediaMVP.

So far so good, all the issues I reported with the earlier dongles seemed to be resolved (or not showing as often). I will leave this as my default dongle and see if I can get you some good feedback.

The responsiveness of the remote seems to be slightly (although noticeable) slower than the Hauppauge dongle. Hitting a key on the remote, I'm seeing about 1/2 second of delay before the key takes effect.

Things I tried briefly:
- Live TV
- Changing channels
- Bringing up the mini-guide and browsing (the responsiveness is very slow). All the keys seemed to be queued up and all get played.
- Pause, ff, rew, stop

- Recordings
- With subtitle viewer, toggle on/off, ff, rew, pause. The only thing here is that during the ff or rew, an darkened overlay is shown over the picture (because of the subtitles).
- volume, mini-guide

- Video Library
- DIVX transcoded to MPEG2
- MPEG2 files

- Picture Library
- looks good

- FM Radio
- works as expected

- Music Library
- works as expected

- Weather plugin

I'll leave this as my default dongle and give it a while to see as it is used for longer periods and report back.

[mvallevand]

Just tried your latest dongle on my AMD X2 4600 with a H2 MediaMVP.

So far so good, all the issues I reported with the earlier dongles seemed to be resolved (or not showing as often). I will leave this as my default dongle and see if I can get you some good feedback.

I will be most interesting in any problems that force you off the dongle, these are what I'd like to prioritize.

The responsiveness of the remote seems to be slightly (although noticeable) slower than the Hauppauge dongle. Hitting a key on the remote, I'm seeing about 1/2 second of delay before the key takes effect.

Some things will be slower by the nature of emulation mode, especially file navigation. Some things I can improve, some things I want to leave alone to allow me to run on other hardware and some could be improved by sub with some optimizations to gbpvr if there was a critical mass of users.

- Bringing up the mini-guide and browsing (the responsiveness is very slow). All the keys seemed to be queued up and all get played.

Sounds like this is something I really need to look into.

- With subtitle viewer, toggle on/off, ff, rew, pause. The only thing here is that during the ff or rew, an darkened overlay is shown over the picture (because of the subtitles).

Unfortunately I don't have subtitled files to test. For the shading I respond to commands from gbpvr but there is a good chance I don't understand when to turn it off when I don't get the command to unshade.

Martin

[mvallevand]

- Bringing up the mini-guide and browsing (the responsiveness is very slow). All the keys seemed to be queued up and all get played.

There is definitely something wrong with how I handle the mini guide. It looks like it will be cool though

2. When you press "go" during live TV it normally brings up a mini TV guide, this doesn`t work

It does come up with Go Go as I suggested.

Martin

[tkgafs]

I'm glad you are getting the same results for the KeepAlive, it show me I'm on the right track in looking at Windows solution.

Out of curiousity what is your dhcp lease time? If is is 12hr there could be a problem. Mine is 24hr and I get 12 hours before the disconnect. This is still gbpvr related because other sockets can stay open for days.

Martin.

My dchp lease is handed out by XP as I am using a crossover cable and internet connection sharing, do you know where I can find out what the lease time is ?

I tried running "netsh diag gui" which is the xp network diagnostic tool in the hope that it might tell me and as soon as it started scanning the network mvpmc reloaded itself !!

Tkgafs

[mvallevand]

My dchp lease is handed out by XP as I am using a crossover cable and internet connection sharing, do you know where I can find out what the lease time is ?

I tried running "netsh diag gui" which is the xp network diagnostic tool in the hope that it might tell me and as soon as it started scanning the network mvpmc reloaded itself !!

Tkgafs

Interesting, my bet there is a conflict with the mvpmc web server, but I like knowing how to crash mvpmc and see if I can fix this.

As for the lease time, sorry I can't help, but there likely is a why to configure lease time or lease duration in the dhcp server itself.

Martin

[bofh]

I will be most interesting in any problems that force you off the dongle, these are what I'd like to prioritize.

The latest dongle failed the wife test so I've reverted back to the Hauppauge dongle. As I wasn't there when it happened, I'm only reporting what I got from my wife.

Keys failed to work while watching a recording. Hitting the yellow button on the remote to turn off the subtitles failed. Any key after that was swallowed up.

I tried it myself the previous night and this feature did work. It looks like the swallowing of the keys is random.

LiveTV was tried and after 10 minutes, hitting the pause button caused a reboot.

[mvallevand]

The latest dongle failed the wife test so I've reverted back to the Hauppauge dongle. As I wasn't there when it happened, I'm only reporting what I got from my wife.

Thanks may next round!

Keys failed to work while watching a recording. Hitting the yellow button on the remote to turn off the subtitles failed. Any key after that was swallowed up.

This is going to be a problem for me since I don't have any sub-titled files. If anyone can provide with a small 50mb sample that would be great.

I tried it myself the previous night and this feature did work. It looks like the swallowing of the keys is random.

I don't think it is random, I still don't get back exactly the same thing from GBPVR as I expect in some situations.
LiveTV was tried and after 10 minutes, hitting the pause button caused a reboot.[/QUOTE]
Anything that turns on the graphic on top of the TV has some potential impact, which I have not yet completely ironed out.

Martin

[petewxm]

Hi Martin,

I`ve been using the Alpha dongle for a few days now and its only crashed twice, I think its great!

The only problem I have found is that the volume still doesn`t work but it must be something with my setup if it works for everyone else.

I will keep using the updated alpha dongles as they same to be stable enough to use everyday, and let you know if anything strange happens.

Thanks

Pete

[mvallevand]

Hi Martin,

I`ve been using the Alpha dongle for a few days now and its only crashed twice, I think its great!

The only problem I have found is that the volume still doesn`t work but it must be something with my setup if it works for everyone else.

I will keep using the updated alpha dongles as they same to be stable enough to use everyday, and let you know if anything strange happens.

Thanks

Pete

Thanks and there is a stupid bug in the volume code which I will fix tonight.

Martin

[petewxm]

Hi Martin,

I`ve noticed lately with the alpha dongle that its not as stable as it was in previous releases, it quite often now loses the connection and goes back to the MVPMC menu.
I`ve had to start using the dongle that comes with GBPVR again, No wide screen

Hopefully you can get this sorted, Keep up the good work

PS I`m using a wired MVP

Pete