Emulation mode testing Round III

[JavaWiz]

Using dongle dated 4-4. connecting via wireless to MVP

• MVP load of dongle worked perfectly
  
• dongle.bin.config loaded
  
• drives mapped successfully
  
• attempt to boot into emulation mode via config.
  • Indicates 'Connecting to 192.168.1.2' (my gbpvr server)
    
  • Starts pinging,
    
  • counts to 30 and stops
    
  • Once back on MVPMC screen, I select emulation mode and it connects right up (most of the time, there are times that it still just counts).
• Once gbpvr loaded:
  • Screen navigation - ok, maybe a little sluggish
    
  • Live TV - ok.
    
  • Channel change on Live TV - ok.
    
  • Recording Playback - ok.
    
  • Music Library - ok (both MP3 and WMA)
    
  • Photo Library - ok
    
  • Net Radio - ok
    
  • Weather Plugin - ok
    
  • You Tube Plugin - ok

So, for me anyways, all GBPVR functions work.

Only problem seems to be on boot-up, I don't seem to be able to get into emulation mode automatically, it fails, then I simply select emulation mode and it works.

It seems that if emulation does not connect on the 1st ping, it won't connect at all.

[mvallevand]

Using dongle dated 4-4. connecting via wireless to MVP
Only problem seems to be on boot-up, I don't seem to be able to get into emulation mode automatically, it fails, then I simply select emulation mode and it works.

It seems that if emulation does not connect on the 1st ping, it won't connect at all.

Excellent, thanks JavaWiz. It shows I'm going in the right direction this time around. For the ping could you telnet to your mvp and try this command

/usr/bin/arping -c 2 -I eth1 your IP

I trigger on these two strings

"Unicast reply" Success
"Received 0" Failure

Martin

[pz1]

The video issue is very strange, but I will look into it more. It might be a 99.5 vs 99.12, but I can't do anything until XP recovery.

I forgot to mention that in Live TV image and sound were about 30 seconds out of sync.

[mvallevand]

I forgot to mention that in Live TV image and sound were about 30 seconds out of sync.

If the demuxing is that messed up, no wonder there are difficulties. What bit rate do you use for live tv? Everything I test is with defaults.

Martin

[pz1]

If the demuxing is that messed up, no wonder there are difficulties. What bit rate do you use for live tv? Everything I test is with defaults.

Martin

I guess you mean this setting?

Code:

<MVPFFmpegTranscodeCmdLinePAL>-y -i "{SOURCE_FILE}" -b 2400k -ac 2 -ab 128 -r 25 -s 352x288 -f svcd "{DEST_FILE}"</MVPFFmpegTranscodeCmdLinePAL>

Remarkable that Javawiz has no problems at all. The only difference in setup I see is that he has 'drives mapped'. Should I have done that? I only dumped the dongle in the dongle-dir.

[mvallevand]

I guess you mean this setting?

Code:

<MVPFFmpegTranscodeCmdLinePAL>-y -i "{SOURCE_FILE}" -b 2400k -ac 2 -ab 128 -r 25 -s 352x288 -f svcd "{DEST_FILE}"</MVPFFmpegTranscodeCmdLinePAL>

I don't think that that's it for live tv, it shouldn't necessarily be transcoded. My XP machine still is down because of a bad MBR, fortunately I could mount the drive on linux and I'm copying the disk slowly to another. Lucky too because it is RAID-0 I figured it was toast. Hopefully someone else can tell you the setting.

Remarkable that Javawiz has no problems at all. The only difference in setup I see is that he has 'drives mapped'. Should I have done that? I only dumped the dongle in the dongle-dir.

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Drive mapping won't help at all with emulation mode so what you did is fine. The problems might be network speed. He's running wireless and because of the low quality NIC in the mvp wireless can give better performance than wired, but it is also typically unpredictable.

Martin

[pz1]

I don't think that that's it for live tv, it shouldn't necessarily be transcoded. My XP machine still is down because of a bad MBR, fortunately I could mount the drive on linux and I'm copying the disk slowly to another. Lucky too because it is RAID-0 I figured it was toast. Hopefully someone else can tell you the setting.

Sorry I am pretty ignorant in the area of sound/video. It was the only MVP related bitrate I could find in config.xml. For my Hauppauge 350 I have this:

Code:

<PVR350TranscodeCmdLine>-y -b 2200k -vcodec mpeg2video -i {SOURCE_FILE} {DEST_FILE}</PVR350TranscodeCmdLine>

[tkgafs]

Hi Martin,

thought you'd be pleased to see this, the dongle from 04/04 has now been playing music using ML2 for 2 days and 1 hour it has randomly played over 750 tracks in succession. I think that certainly for me using my setup you have nailed playing music well done

output from ifconfig on the mvp follows

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0D:FE:00:36:C6
inet addr:192.168.0.170 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:4415107 errors:69448 dropped:0 overruns:69448 frame:0
TX packets:3409660 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:1444062730 (1.3 GiB) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
Interrupt:27 Base address:0xd300 DMA chan:1


You cant imagine how great it is to be able to come in switch the amp to the aux source and a random selection of music just starts streaming out

thanks again

Tkgafs

[mvallevand]

Hi Martin,

thought you'd be pleased to see this, the dongle from 04/04 has now been playing music using ML2 for 2 days and 1 hour it has randomly played over 750 tracks in succession. I think that certainly for me using my setup you have nailed playing music well done

Excellent, thanks for the help getting it to this stage. I;d like to see if I can reduce your tcpip errors to a lower number, with this NIC I'm not sure, but I am definitely pleased. Now we just have to figure out how to multicast/torrent the Hauppauge protocol over the internet so we can all listen to "Radio tkgafs" on our mvp's It looks like you have an interesting collection.

Martin

[Luckerman]

I've been testing emulation mode of the MVPMC dongle now and again over the last months and the latest alpha (dated 04/03) is much more stable in my setup. Button response is quicker, channel changing also seems quicker and getting kicked out of GBPVR to the MVPMC home page is less frequent.

But I'm seeing a serious loss of sync between audio and video in Live TV mode. Sync starts off OK in Live TV mode but seems to get lost on channel change: in the last test I did audio lagged by about 8 seconds. My MVP is rev D3A and my Live TV quality is 6000 kbits/sec CBR. I'll continue to test as WAF allows.