DVB-T Radio Support

[bgowland]

Brian,

Thanks for the fantastic support, it is working beautifully for me now. And, after a quick edit of the channels.csv, looks good too!

Great plugin!

Excellent. Thanks again for all the log files and feedback. We got there in the end.

Cheers,
Brian

[Bathman]

I am up and running with Vista - Thank you.

The only problem that I am having is when changing channels to a different mux. Then I have to stop the current channel manually then chose the different mux station. But I guess you already know this as it has been reported before.

[dturland]

Hi
Unfortunately, the relevant pvr2.exe.log had been overwritten so I took the opportunity to delete the original version and install the latest 1.1.3042.38942.
Now it correctly identifies the BBC channels and also half a dozen more channels than before so success! :o

Now the bit:
pvr2.exe crashes after a few minutes of playing (Radio 4 in my case).
I have attached, hopefully, pvr2.exe.log and the contents of DVB-T Radio\Logs.

Crux move seems to be:

Code:

FATAL UNHANDLED EXCEPTION::
System.Net.Sockets.SocketException: An operation on a socket
could not be performed because the system lacked sufficient buffer
space or because a queue was full 127.0.0.1:7968

Thanks,
David

[bgowland]

pvr2.exe crashes after a few minutes of playing (Radio 4 in my case).

Does it do this consistently?

It looks to me that you started, pvrx2 then the radio plugin successfully at about 10:50 then you exited pvrx2 without stopping the radio. If you do this, the process that handles the actual radio stuff (dvbtr.exe) continues to run in the background for a couple of minutes until it realises it has been abandoned then it shuts itself down.

It looks like you restarted pvrx2 before dvbtr.exe had shut down at which point, the whole thing got out of sync....I think...

I would expect exiting pvrx2 then restarting within a short period of time to produce unpredictable results. This is a bug that I need to fix.

Cheers,
Brian

[bgowland]

The only problem that I am having is when changing channels to a different mux. Then I have to stop the current channel manually then chose the different mux station. But I guess you already know this as it has been reported before.

This is frustrating - I can't reproduce this here and I also know of at least one other user who doesn't experience this problem. I do get a bit of a 'hiccup' when I switch to a channel on another mux but it doesn't fail completely.

I'll possibly add a user setting which allows the option to automatically stop/restart playback when changing channels.

Cheers,
Brian

[dturland]

Hi Brian,

It looks like you restarted pvrx2 before dvbtr.exe had shut down at which point, the whole thing got out of sync....I think...

That would explain the initial out-of-sync and obviously these become self-sustaining once pvr2 dies and is restarted...
The Archers now going strong for what seems an eternity

Of interest; I escape back to the main menu when listening as it is less distracting (radio shouldn't be visually distracting!).
From there I can stop the radio (neat touch) but If I now return to DVB-T radio I cannot now play any stations until I exit pvr2 and restart. I can supply logs but it seems consistently reproducible.

Keep it up! this is an excellent plugin

David

[bgowland]

Of interest; I escape back to the main menu when listening as it is less distracting (radio shouldn't be visually distracting!).

I'll be adding a user configuration file (similar to gbpvr's config.xml) for the next release, which will allow the use of the gbpvr screensaver. I disable the screensaver in the current release because it causes a 'hiccup' on my machine every time the screensaver logo fades in. This is possibly due to my cheapo gfx card and may not affect other people.

From there I can stop the radio (neat touch) but If I now return to DVB-T radio I cannot now play any stations until I exit pvr2 and restart. I can supply logs but it seems consistently reproducible.

Actually, not such a neat touch and none of my doing.

I haven't tried this but I think I know what's happening. When you're at the main menu and you use the Stop button (presumably on your remote), pvrx2 will be stopping playback of the current audio playlist - it won't, however, cleanup the dvbtr.exe process (which it doesn't know about). When you press Stop in the radio plugin, it intercepts the command and stops both the audio and the dvbtr process.

I've added some cleanup code for the next version.

Cheers,
Brian

[bgowland]

I've uploaded a new version of the plugin to the wiki. The skin zip and logos zip haven't changed.

If you already have a version installed, please extract the whole of the zip file over the top of your existing installation (you may want to backup first though ).

I've added a user configuration file - please read the 'Configuration' section on the wiki page for an explanation.

Cheers,
Brian

[bgowland]

thanks again Brian, great plugin.

i need some more time to start enjoying it more, but its looking good from here.

Glad you like it.

One thing....

If i switch to a different window (such as explorer) whilst dvb-t radio is playing, it then will not respond to keyboard inputs when I turn to the plugin screen . Mouse control still works ok though. It seems I have to exit and restart pvrx2 to fix it. I can reproduce this about 90% of the time.

I've spent some time trying to reproduce this here but no luck.

Could you try the following...

1. Start playing radio

2. Switch to a different window

3. Return to the plugin and try the keyboard arrow keys

4. Assuming it doesn't respond to the keys, use the mouse to click on the 'Stop' button then exit pvrx2 and post your pvrx2.exe.log file.

I need step 4 as there's normally a lot of stuff in the pvrx2.exe.log and I'll be able to see that action and work backwards.

Cheers,
Brian

[JP23]

Hi,

I'm having some trouble, installed as described in the wiki, I open the plugin and it prompts to scan for channels, nothing seems to happen and after a few minutes pvrx2 starts displaying the screensaver, when I wake it up I get prompted to scan for channels again.

Dvbtr.exe does not appear in task manager at any time.

Any ideas?