The MVP won't play Movies or Music

[sub]

It still brings this microsoft. net error as above

Zip and attach the logs showing that error and I'll take a look.

[zehd]

Increased the preplay delay to 10 000 but still no good. It still brings this microsoft. net error as above

Playingt with the preplay delay indicates you are try to make on the fly transcoding work. You other posts indicate you are have trouble with both Transcoding and playing Native MPEGS..

Are MPEGS playing OK?. If you still get errors, then fix those problems before trying to fix ZProcess and on the fly transcoding

[prasi00]

Sorry for the missunderstanting. I did mention at some point but not very clearly that I can now play Mpeg and Mpeg2 and mp3 - although playing mp3 caused the MVP box to restart on several occasion.

So the big problem remains transoding on the fly. I tried transoding some xvid files manually with Zprocess and GBpvr both instances there was no problem with the manual transcodin and i was able to play the mpeg output file ont he MVP.

I have attached the latest logs.
Thanks for the fast responce guys.

[sub]

What speed is your machine?

[zehd]

Sorry for the missunderstanting. I did mention at some point but not very clearly that I can now play Mpeg and Mpeg2 and mp3 - although playing mp3 caused the MVP box to restart on several occasion.

So the big problem remains transoding on the fly. I tried transoding some xvid files manually with Zprocess and GBpvr both instances there was no problem with the manual transcodin and i was able to play the mpeg output file ont he MVP.

I have attached the latest logs.
Thanks for the fast responce guys.

You have two choices, Using the default settings of GB-PVR and FFmpeg or using ZProcess with either ffmpeg/mencoder/vlc as the transcoder.

ZProcess may help as it will log things for you. I suspect if sub can confirm that GB-PVR called ZProcess and that it choked when it ran out of file, that we can move on to finding the reason that your computer does do it's job right.

[zehd]

In the logs you provide, there is no mention of ffmpeg or zprocess being called.

Verify that you have either of these two sets of entries in your config.xml

With ZProcess:

Code:

<MVPFFmpegTranscodeCmdLinePAL exe="ZTools\ZProcess.exe">-y -i "{SOURCE_FILE}" -b 2400k -ac 2 -ab 128 -r 25 -s 352x288 -f svcd "{DEST_FILE}"</MVPFFmpegTranscodeCmdLinePAL>
  <MVPFFmpegTranscodeCmdLineNTSC exe="ZTools\ZProcess.exe">-y -i "{SOURCE_FILE}" -b 2400k -ac 2 -ab 128 -r 29.97 -s 352x240 -f svcd "{DEST_FILE}"</MVPFFmpegTranscodeCmdLineNTSC>

or

With FFmpeg

Code:

<MVPFFmpegTranscodeCmdLinePAL>-y -i "{SOURCE_FILE}" -b 2400k -ac 2 -ab 128 -r 25 -s 352x288 -f svcd "{DEST_FILE}"</MVPFFmpegTranscodeCmdLinePAL>
  <MVPFFmpegTranscodeCmdLineNTSC>-y -i "{SOURCE_FILE}" -b 2400k -ac 2 -ab 128 -r 29.97 -s 352x240 -f svcd "{DEST_FILE}"</MVPFFmpegTranscodeCmdLineNTSC>

and that this entry is correct

Code:

<MVPTranscodeUsingFFmpeg>true</MVPTranscodeUsingFFmpeg>

[sub]

2007-07-30 20:55:28.250 VERBOSE [1] getValue() loading new key/value into cache: /settings/LoggingLevel
2007-07-30 20:55:28.250 VERBOSE [1] getValue: /settings/LoggingLevel : Error
2007-07-30 20:55:36.968 ERROR [1] System.IO.IOException: The network path was not found.

at System.IO.__Error.WinIOError(Int32 errorCode, String maybeFullPath)
at System.IO.FileStream.Init(String path, FileMode mode, FileAccess access, Int32 rights, Boolean useRights, FileShare share, Int32 bufferSize, FileOptions options, SECURITY_ATTRIBUTES secAttrs, String msgPath, Boolean bFromProxy)
at System.IO.FileStream..ctor(String path, FileMode mode, FileAccess access, FileShare share, Int32 bufferSize)
at System.Xml.XmlDownloadManager.GetStream(Uri uri, ICredentials credentials)
at System.Xml.XmlUrlResolver.GetEntity(Uri absoluteUri, String role, Type ofObjectToReturn)
at System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.OpenUrlDelegate(Object xmlResolver)
at System.Threading.CompressedStack.runTryCode(Object userData)
at System.Runtime.CompilerServices.RuntimeHelpers.ExecuteCodeWithGuaranteedCleanup(TryCode code, CleanupCode backoutCode, Object userData)
at System.Threading.CompressedStack.Run(CompressedStack compressedStack, ContextCallback callback, Object state)
at System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.OpenUrl()
at System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.Read()
at System.Xml.XmlLoader.Load(XmlDocument doc, XmlReader reader, Boolean preserveWhitespace)
at System.Xml.XmlDocument.Load(XmlReader reader)
at System.Xml.XmlDocument.Load(String filename)
at GBPVR.Backend.Common.xcbcfc48b9705b7a2.x36be875b9fe7ea45()
at GBPVR.xbb1566157f5f8b1f..ctor(String directPlayFileName, Boolean mvpMode)
at GBPVR.xbb1566157f5f8b1f.xfb409e85bd292293(String[] xf18a926310372520)

There isnt much info in your logs. You'll need to reset the logging level to 'debug', then reproduce the problem and repost the logs.

We can see it saying "network path was not found" though, which is probably a decent clue. Where are you trying to play the file from? a network drive? or is your recording directory a network drive?

[zehd]

You will have a lot of trouble trying to access a network path. Manually, it's no problem as a Manual transcode happens in the the Desktop session.

When the MVPServer calls ffmpeg or ZProcess, it does so in the System Session, unless the service is allowed to interact with the desktop.

Can you try this with a video on your local drive first...

[prasi00]

<MVPTranscodePrePlayDelay>5500</MVPTranscodePrePlayDelay>
<MVPTranscodeUsingFFmpeg>true</MVPTranscodeUsingFFmpeg>
<MVPTranscodeUseFFDSHOW>false</MVPTranscodeUseFFDSHOW>
<MVPFFmpegTranscodeCmdLinePAL exe="ZProcess\ZProcess.exe">-y -i "{SOURCE_FILE}" -b 2400k -ac 2 -ab 128 -r 25 -s 352x288 -f svcd "{DEST_FILE}"</MVPFFmpegTranscodeCmdLinePAL>
<MVPFFmpegTranscodeCmdLineNTSC exe="ZProcess\ZProcess.exe">-y -i "{SOURCE_FILE}" -b 2400k -ac 2 -ab 128 -r 29.97 -s 352x240 -f svcd "{DEST_FILE}"</MVPFFmpegTranscodeCmdLineNTSC>
<MVPFFmpegTranscodeToMP3>-y -i "{SOURCE_FILE}" -ab 224 "{DEST_FILE}"</MVPFFmpegTranscodeToMP3>
<MVPFFmpegTranscodeTS>-y -i "{SOURCE_FILE}" -vcodec copy -acodec copy {DEST_FILE}</MVPFFmpegTranscodeTS>


i think I have right settings in the config.xml fine as far as i can see.
I am trying to transode the files form a disk drive that is on the same system where the gbpvr is installed so its not a network drive - althogh if I can everething runnung i will also include netword drive directries in the video library. I am starting to get a bit concerned guys as to the likelihood of success. Might try to intall everything on a spare pc a have on the garage see if it works there. Problem is that its only 1.4 ghz so it might be stragling there.
I changed the config to debdug for loging hope it helps.
As before the gbpvr GUI interface refuses to start on the pc - starts on the mvp though! so I cant really set it to transode on the fly to reproduce the problem!
Logs attached

[mvallevand]

As before the gbpvr GUI interface refuses to start on the pc - starts on the mvp though! so I cant really set it to transode on the fly to reproduce the problem!

One thing that I've had trouble with in the past is that even though. as far as I can tell anyway, the mvp is only fed through the ffmpeg/zprocess interface, gbpvr still requires the DirectShow filter for the file type you are playing, installed on the host. For example I haven't installed QuickTime (or alternatives yet) and I can't play or transcode .mov files. When I rename them to a supported type ffmpeg does its magic.

Martin