Resume & stuttering issues

[dfdario]

Just tried 0.3.3 version of mvpmc and found that resume function doesn't work and I'm experiencing stutters while playing standard MPEG recordings.
Same behaviour with last dongle available (2007-03-25).
Any suggestion?

[mvallevand]

Just tried 0.3.3 version of mvpmc and found that resume function doesn't work and I'm experiencing stutters while playing standard MPEG recordings.
Same behaviour with last dongle available (2007-03-25).
Any suggestion?

First of all when you say the last dongle, do you mean the nightly on the mvpmc or my alpha? I suggest sticking with the alpha. See the first sticky thread.

Then could you explain what the resume function is.

Finally for stuttering do you mean the video slows down or there is pixelization at the bottom. For general stuttering in the alpha dongle you might need to hit the Go then Videos remote keys if there is OSD information. If the file plays fine with the Hauppauge dongle, could you give me details with a program like GSpot or Mediainfo.


Thanks,

Martin

[dfdario]

First of all when you say the last dongle, do you mean the nightly on the mvpmc or my alpha? I suggest sticking with the alpha. See the first sticky thread.

I mean the Nightly builds

Then could you explain what the resume function is.

Resume is when you stopped playing a recording at a certain point and when you start playing it again you would resume from the point you were stopped.

Finally for stuttering do you mean the video slows down or there is pixelization at the bottom. For general stuttering in the alpha dongle you might need to hit the Go then Videos remote keys if there is OSD information. If the file plays fine with the Hauppauge dongle, could you give me details with a program like GSpot or Mediainfo.

Thanks,

Martin

For stutter I mean the video stops playing for a while at each second.
No pixelation.

Thanks for doing such superb program. First time I've been using it was two years ago with MythTV ad it was working fine!

[mvallevand]

I mean the Nightly builds



Resume is when you stopped playing a recording at a certain point and when you start playing it again you would resume from the point you were stopped.


For stutter I mean the video stops playing for a while at each second.
No pixelation.

Thanks for doing such superb program. First time I've been using it was two years ago with MythTV ad it was working fine!

Ok, right now I recommend the alpha over the nightly for GBPVR testing, but for these issues the nightly should perform about the same.

I can't test the resume, my machine is running some long test, but when I did it is configured by the config program and it was working, ie the dialog opened and gbpvr positioned the file. Incidently I can't use the Hauppauge program dropoff value which allows auto restart because it is always the same in gbpvr.

Regarding the performance the stuttering looks like it is LAN bandwidth related. I couldn't play that file from a NAS but it would play fine from my Windows box. Does that file play ok with the Hauppauge dongle and GBPVR?

Martin

[dfdario]

Ok, right now I recommend the alpha over the nightly for GBPVR testing, but for these issues the nightly should perform about the same.

I can't test the resume, my machine is running some long test, but when I did it is configured by the config program and it was working, ie the dialog opened and gbpvr positioned the file. Incidently I can't use the Hauppauge program dropoff value which allows auto restart because it is always the same in gbpvr.

I think I've to read more deeply how to configure it. Now I have a basic configuration file.

Regarding the performance the stuttering looks like it is LAN bandwidth related.

You're probably right. May be Half/Full Duplex related or something similar.

I couldn't play that file from a NAS but it would play fine from my Windows box. Does that file play ok with the Hauppauge dongle and GBPVR?

With GBPVR dongle all is working perfect. I'll give it one more try with different settings.

[mvallevand]

You're probably right. May be Half/Full Duplex related or something similar.

If you are running with a dongle.bin.config file I can explain how to turn on half duplex.

With GBPVR dongle all is working perfect. I'll give it one more try with different settings.

If you could somehow make available a sample of one of your mpegs, a couple of minutes should suffice, I could see how it works for me.

Martin.

[macgyver]

Hi

I am having a problem with resume also. It prompts me to select resume or restart but when I select resume I can see that the timeline briefly shows the restart time so it is attempting to do it but it then just starts again from the beginning.
I've just downloaded the lastest alpha. I've made no changes other than to load the mvpmc dongle (using gbpvr config), changed the settings to widescreen and selected emulation to load gbpvr. Running 99.12.

Everything else seems to work really well (including Music Library2), so thanks for all your great work.

[mvallevand]

Hi

I am having a problem with resume also. It prompts me to select resume or restart but when I select resume I can see that the timeline briefly shows the restart time so it is attempting to do it but it then just starts again from the beginning.
I've just downloaded the lastest alpha. I've made no changes other than to load the mvpmc dongle (using gbpvr config), changed the settings to widescreen and selected emulation to load gbpvr. Running 99.12.

Everything else seems to work really well (including Music Library2), so thanks for all your great work.

Thanks for the confirmation of the problem. I must have broken something recently, I will have a look tonight, I think I can finally stop the long ML2 testing.

Martin

[mvallevand]

Just tried 0.3.3 version of mvpmc and found that resume function doesn't work

I am having a problem with resume also. It prompts me to select resume or restart but when I select resume I can see that the timeline briefly shows the restart time so it is attempting to do it but it then just starts again from the beginning.

I've uploaded a new alpha with a small change that (I hope) fixes resume. It works for me without breaking live tv, which shares some of this logic, so feedback is welcome. It is certainly tough working on an undocumented protocol.

Martin

[dfdario]

I've uploaded a new alpha with a small change that (I hope) fixes resume. It works for me without breaking live tv, which shares some of this logic, so feedback is welcome. It is certainly tough working on an undocumented protocol.

Martin

Yesterday I tested the 27/3 Alpha, same result, stuttering and no resume.
dongle.bin.Config have not been read so I had to select configuration from main menu.
Tonight I'll give a try to your last Alpha dongle.