Emulation mode testing Round III

[dfdario]

Downloaded latest dongle alpha (18/4), it is as faster as official dongle!
Play recordings: no more stutters, slow in applying transparent OSD but acceptable.
LiveTV: some stutters, FF and RW work as expected (FF/RW are set as skip)

No more test performed

Very good job!

[mvallevand]

Downloaded latest dongle alpha (18/4), it is as faster as official dongle!
Play recordings: no more stutters, slow in applying transparent OSD but acceptable.
LiveTV: some stutters, FF and RW work as expected (FF/RW are set as skip)

No more test performed

Very good job!

For the stuttering the only change was the new 8192 default, and given the generally positive response 0418 I think it was worthwhile and I thank you for trying various options.

Martin

[Luckerman]

Thanks. You told me that you were using 6000 CBR. What about other things that might be different like the livetv pre-buffers and MVP minimal OSD or possible the skin or EPG?

Also maybe the 8192 buffer isn't good for you. If you can run from telnet or use a dongle.bin.config file you could try the old default by adding --em-rtwin 4096

Finally could you confirm you are running 99.12 with this patch

http://forums.gbpvr.com/showpost.php?p=1...stcount=31

Martin

Hi Martin, I'm just back to testing again.

Live TV pre-play delay is set to 600 ms, transcode pre-delay = 5500, and Force Minimal OSD for MVP is checked.
I've got the Blue skin installed for testing and the EPG is from Zap2It.
I created a dongle.bin.config with the line you suggest(I'm pretty sure the .config is loading because MVPMC was acting on a start in emulate mode command when starting), and am running 99.12 with the cited patch installed.
Yet 4/15 freezes pretty quickly and I can't get 4/10 to freeze, even with constant keypresses. Two things I've noticed on 4/15: on a successful channel change, before the new channel is visible, the audio continues for a couple of second after the video has stopped moving, and when changing channels sometimes I'm still losing the channel's second digit.

[mvallevand]

Hi Martin, I'm just back to testing again.

Live TV pre-play delay is set to 600 ms, transcode pre-delay = 5500, and Force Minimal OSD for MVP is checked.
I've got the Blue skin installed for testing and the EPG is from Zap2It.
I created a dongle.bin.config with the line you suggest(I'm pretty sure the .config is loading because MVPMC was acting on a start in emulate mode command when starting), and am running 99.12 with the cited patch installed.
Yet 4/15 freezes pretty quickly and I can't get 4/10 to freeze, even with constant keypresses. Two things I've noticed on 4/15: on a successful channel change, before the new channel is visible, the audio continues for a couple of second after the video has stopped moving, and when changing channels sometimes I'm still losing the channel's second digit.

Thanks,

I've uploaded my most current dongle to see if this is moving in a better direction. It has cut the channel change time and also handles various pre-delays better. Typically are you changing channels with the arrow keys, through the guide or mini-guide, or by entering the number. There are nuances in how I have to react to gbpvr.

The 8192 buffer size is now the default.

Martin

Martin

[jksmurf]

I've uploaded my most current dongle to see if this is moving in a better direction.

Had a crack at this one, logs attached. No errors and loaded OK.
But it was a "bit" stuttery on playback, OK in LiveTV except pretty rough/blocky channel changes. Not sabout settinsg page, I chose SPDIF for Audiop and got a Digital" thing on my Stereo, so I think it worked. The channel changes and stuttery playback (low spec PC mine, so emulation working too hard?) makes it not as good as DONGLE_33_25032.BIN atm

k.

[mvallevand]

Had a crack at this one, logs attached. No errors and loaded OK.
But it was a "bit" stuttery on playback, OK in LiveTV except pretty rough/blocky channel changes. Not sabout settinsg page, I chose SPDIF for Audiop and got a Digital" thing on my Stereo, so I think it worked. The channel changes and stuttery playback (low spec PC mine, so emulation working too hard?) makes it not as good as DONGLE_33_25032.BIN atm

k.

Thanks, I will wait and see if these comments are more 0421 related or not. Certainly channel transitions will always be blockier then with the mvp, but I might have made it worse then necessary.

For audio I was interested to find out if you had any AC3 5:1 source files and if so how they played with the mod.

Martin

[Luckerman]

Typically are you changing channels with the arrow keys, through the guide or mini-guide, or by entering the number.

Martin

I have mainly been changing channels by UP/DOWN and entering the channel number. I've attached logs with examples of both. Thanks.

[mvallevand]

I have mainly been changing channels by UP/DOWN and entering the channel number. I've attached logs with examples of both. Thanks.

Thanks. are these with th 0421 dongle?

Martin

[Luckerman]

Thanks. are these with th 0421 dongle?

Martin

No, they're with the 0415 dongle. I'll download the 0421 dongle now.

[Luckerman]

Martin, I did some quick testing of the 0421 dongle with Live TV and found the functioning much improved, for the most part. I made channel changes with the number buttons only and the changes were quicker, more precise(audio muted more quickly and almost simultaneously with video on change) and I didn't get any freeze-ups. However, after one channel change the video remained frozen but the audio continued to change to the new channel content. I've included the logs that seem to be relevant; if additional info would be helpful please let me know. Thanks

Luckerman