New alpha dongle Dec. 04

[mvallevand]

I have uploaded the latest alpha dongle, with code that will be in tomorrow's mvpmc nightly which is designed to improve upon the audio/video sync changes that are in mvpmc 0.3.4 Several users have noted improvements with mythtv and I hope the same applies to emulation mode. In my limited testing it is a little less resource intensive then the last dongle.

As always your feedback is appreciated.

Martin

[pcostanza]

I have uploaded the latest alpha dongle, with code that will be in tomorrow's mvpmc nightly which is designed to improve upon the audio/video sync changes that are in mvpmc 0.3.4 Several users have noted improvements with mythtv and I hope the same applies to emulation mode. In my limited testing it is a little less resource intensive then the last dongle.

As alway your feedback is appreciated.

Martin

Thanks Martin. How's this look in Vista?

[mvallevand]

There are no specific changes for Vista, however since that's all I use, I haven't seen or heard any problem with my suite of test video files it should continue to be fine. There could be general improvements for if there was minor stuttering in the last versions.

Martin

[pcostanza]

Just gave it a quick test with 1 mpeg and 1 divx and the new dongle is working fine for me but I'll try a few more files and see if that continues.
Your work is appreciated.

[HtV]

Hi Martin,

Just tested it with a file which I had synch problems with(transcoded avi to mpeg). Seemed to work fine now. Great.

Hans

[Sheik Yerbouti]

Hi Martin,

I just watched a show and it's working fine, great work. I do have a question, but it's not related to this dongle specificly. I seem to be having some problems with the MVP not responding to my remote while playing a video. I believe I've read about this some time ago, and I was wondering if this is a known problem.

[hasso]

I seem to be having some problems with the MVP not responding to my remote while playing a video.

I've had the same problem. I use the 0.3.4 dongle and the remote works when I first start GBPVR in emulation mode but after a few minutes of watching a video... no response. The light blinks on the MVP but the only button that works is the Power button.

[mvallevand]

The only problem I've seen, that I can duplicate sometimes is in livetv if I do some channel changes and then pause livetv a few times GBPVR becomes unresponsive even though the video keeps on playing. I've sniffed the network traffic and the keys are being sent, so I haven't considered it a client problem.

I'd be happy to look at any GBPVR logs that are uploaded to look further into the problem.

Martin

[hasso]

I'd be happy to look at any GBPVR logs that are uploaded to look further into the problem.

Thanks, Martin for the offer. I'll do some more testing tonight and try the new alpha dongle as well and let you know how it goes.

[Turas]

i think "remote stops responding" is a common problem with the current dongles and vista. it's also the reason why i currently don't use the mvpmc dongle. i can remember a thread where sub said that hauppauge is still working on a vista dongle. on hauppauge.com they've uploaded a new beta version 3.4 25305 that's supposed to work with vista. i'm currently using that dongle and the remote is much more stable with it. though... i'm missing the wake-on-lan that mvpmc offers. br turas