New alpha dongle Dec. 04

[mvallevand]

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

There seems to a continuing comments that people prefer to wait for a Hauppauge dongle then try and improve mvpmc and/or gbpvr. I have yet to get a log can be used to help track this problem down further and I am getting very close to abandoning my involvement with emulation mode with mvpmc too.

Note, I can tell you about five ways to crash the latest Hauppauge hard dongle too.

Martin

[HtV]

I have yet to get a log can be used to help track this problem down further and I am getting very close to abandoning my involvement with emulation mode with mvpmc too.

:eek::eek:

I haven't had a problem with the latest dongle yet. I might try playing a video (normally I transcode them first) and see what happens. If anything happens I'll post the logs.

Hans

[mcervi]

There seems to a continuing comments that people prefer to wait for a Hauppauge dongle then try and improve mvpmc and/or gbpvr. I have yet to get a log can be used to help track this problem down further and I am getting very close to abandoning my involvement with emulation mode with mvpmc too.

Noooo! I've been happily using mvpmc for a few months now and been very happy with it. I keep up with your updates and haven't had any problems.

Plus, I'm hoping you'll have luck with getting mvpmc to work on the Popcornhour box (or Sub will find an HD extender directly). The painfully limited MVP is the only think keeping me on analog TV and its getting to the point of frustration. There are things I'd like to record on TV (available as both HD OTA and SD cable) that I don't even bother with because I can't stand the SD picture anymore.

[onestar]

and I am getting very close to abandoning my involvement with emulation mode with mvpmc too.

Don't quit. I was really happy to see mvpmc move on from .20 (or was it .18). Your work and the others on the mvpmc project is much appreciated. Offering the best of both worlds.

For example, I can go emulation to setup recordings, or find a specific episode. But DVD rips play smoothly in mvpmc mode, (they always stuttered in places via GBPVR).

The only issue I did have in emulation mode was using .33 and .99 GBPVR, after x number of key presses on the remote, the mvpmc would hang or reboot. Haven't tried it recently on .34 (I'm slower nowadays )

[Turas]

didn't want to disappoint anyone. mvpmc emulation mode is a great development. i'll try to produce a log again. keep up the good work m8! br turas

update:
i really do like mvpmc-emulation mode a lot! and i've used it on my xp-server for some time.

your're absolutely right that the hauppauge dongle is crap and makes mvp crash from time to time. but it's very frustrating for me when the remote stops responding. i tried to upload some logs some time ago to support in finding the problem, but it didn't help then. logging wasn't working as necessary with pvrx2 back then.

i'll find the time again now to upload some logs (if necessary at all)! i just started to give it another try. installed the newest alpha dongle and currently i'm viewing livetv with fast forward / rewind / program popup without any problem!

keep you posted about the results.
br turas

[mvallevand]

Sorry Turas, I didn't mean to imply that I was upset with you or anyone really. The facts haven't really changed since this message http://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.php?t=30022
and I don't have anything to report, and I don't know where to take it. I know I can no longer try to track this down on my own.

Martin

[jksmurf]

... I am getting very close to abandoning my involvement with emulation mode with mvpmc too.... Martin

Plus, I'm hoping you'll have luck with getting mvpmc to work on the Popcornhour box (or Sub will find an HD extender directly). The painfully limited MVP is the only think keeping me on analog TV and its getting to the point of frustration. There are things I'd like to record on TV (available as both HD OTA and SD cable) that I don't even bother with because I can't stand the SD picture anymore.

Nooooooooooooo!
Martin you do a great job.... and there are HD extenders to port to

k.

[jksmurf]

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.

Actually I'd like to report I too have had "some problems with the MVP not responding to my remote while playing a video", but not just 4/12, also the previous dongle. I thought it was just my batteries, so I changed those (no improvement), slow rig responding/PVRX2 requiring more grunt (was better before PVRX2 I "think"). I'll try to reproduce it using your steps so some logs can come your way.

Cheers,

k.

[mvallevand]

The remote problems exists without a doubt. I just haven't isolated it to mvpmc.

Martin

[Turas]

is gbpvr-logging sufficient now or do we need to use this ...

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If you want to help from the mvpmc side, the only way to get useful logs from mvpmc is to use this technique

http://forums.gbpvr.com/showpost.php?p=1...stcount=37
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br turas