100% CPU when MVP set to >0

[NI2O]

Hi all,

I've been wrestling with my rebuilt repurposed Captive Works CW3000HD (uses the Asus M2NPV-VM board) for the last 2 weeks and cannot get this problem fixed.

I need to feed 2 MVP's and so I set the MVP servers setting in the GBPVR config tool to 2. When I save the settings and the recording service restarts my processor instantly gets pinned to 100% and playback of anything is a nightmare both on the local machine and the remote MVP's.

On the other hand, when I set the MVP servers to 0 everything on the local machine runs fine with the processor spiking at about 35% worst case (when I'm watching satellite via Twinhan 1020).

The other thing I've noted is that there doesn't appear to be a MVPmacaddress.MPG file created for the remote MVP client. I assume that this gets dumped in my recordings or live preview folders? It's almost like GBPVR is feeding the pictures out live rather than from the file.

I've updated to the latest release and the latest VCREDIST offerings and whilst the upgrade went without hitch (good one Sub!!) my problem persists.

Ideas?

Thanks

[sub]

Reproduce the problem then zip and attach the logs and I'll take a look.

[NI2O]

OK, so I changed the dongle.bin file to the one suggested in the survival guide for Vista users (even though I'm on XP) and now my local playback of recordings and live TV is back to normal as is my processor (around 30%)

I changed the MUX from MS to Cyberlink and now I no longer get the Trans2MPV error I was also getting. It even streams live ATSC sourced TV to the MVP which it wasn't doing before.

However I still get the stuttering playback on all sources called from the MVP. I've flushed through the logs and cannot see any errors other than some missing JPG's which I assume are part of a skin I don't have?

[mvallevand]

Could you set you number of MVP servers back to 1, duplicate the test and upload your logs again?

Martin

[NI2O]

Could you set you number of MVP servers back to 1, duplicate the test and upload your logs again?

Martin

OK, I set the servers to 1 ask requested and can see an error in the MVP-PVRX2 file stating that it can't find a file which is correct, that file doesn't exist. I have yet to see a MVPmacaddress.MPG file appear in my D:\TEMP directory (where I point my recordings and live buffer to).

Thanks in advance folks.

Mark

[mvallevand]

- If D: is a share then there might be problems with the share permission

- Maybe D:\temp doesn't exist

- Try running this from the command line and see if the source file is the problem (or if it taking too long to transcode)

Code:

C:\Program Files\Devnz\GBPVR\Third Party\FFmpeg\ffmpeg.exe -y -i "D:\DVD\Strawberry Shortcake\Adventures on Ice Cream Island.avi" -b 2400k -ar 48000 -ac 2 -ab 128 -r 29.97 -s 352x240 -f svcd "D:\temp\MVP000DFE0C42F02.mpg"

If you updated ffmpeg for other reasons you probably have to change some of the command line values.

Martin

[NI2O]

OK, did that and got this;

Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
© Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.


C:\Documents and Settings\Mark Phillips>C:\"Program Files"\Devnz\GBPVR\"Third Pa
rty"\FFmpeg\ffmpeg.exe -y -i "D:\DVD\Strawberry Shortcake\Adventures on Ice Crea
m Island.avi" -b 2400k -ar 48000 -ac 2 -ab 128 -r 29.97 -s 352x240 -f svcd "D:\t
emp\MVP000DFE0C42F02.mpg"
FFmpeg version SVN-r7165, Copyright © 2000-2006 Fabrice Bellard, et al.
configuration: --enable-mp3lame --enable-libnut --enable-libogg --enable-vorb
is --enable-faad --enable-faac --enable-libgsm --enable-xvid --enable-x264 --ena
ble-mingw32 --enable-a52 --enable-dts --enable-pp --enable-amr_nb --enable-amr_w
b --enable-swscaler --enable-avisynth --enable-gpl --enable-memalign-hack --cpu=
i686 --extra-ldflags=-static
libavutil version: 49.1.0
libavcodec version: 51.25.0
libavformat version: 51.6.0
built on Nov 24 2006 18:53:03, gcc: 4.0.3

Seems that stream 0 comes from film source: 30000.00 (30000/1) -> 29.97 (30000/1
001)
Input #0, avi, from 'D:\DVD\Strawberry Shortcake\Adventures on Ice Cream Island.
avi':
Duration: 00:44:22.9, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 1642 kb/s
Stream #0.0: Video: mpeg4, yuv420p, 640x480, 29.97 fps®
Stream #0.1: Audio: mp3, 48000 Hz, stereo, 128 kb/s
Output #0, svcd, to 'D:\temp\MVP000DFE0C42F02.mpg':
Stream #0.0: Video: mpeg2video, yuv420p, 352x240, q=2-31, 2400 kb/s, 29.97 fps
©
Stream #0.1: Audio: mp2, 48000 Hz, stereo, 128 kb/s
Stream mapping:
Stream #0.0 -> #0.0
Stream #0.1 -> #0.1
Press [q] to stop encoding
mdb:511, lastbuf:0 skiping granule 0
mdb:511, lastbuf:0 skiping granule 0
mdb:511, lastbuf:0 skiping granule 1
mdb:511, lastbuf:0 skiping granule 1
mdb:511, lastbuf:348 skiping granule 0
mdb:511, lastbuf:348 skiping granule 0
mdb:511, lastbuf:348 skiping granule 1
mdb:511, lastbuf:348 skiping granule 1
frame=79810 q=1.6 Lsize= 819364kB time=2662.8 bitrate=2520.7kbits/s
video:767137kB audio:41607kB global headers:0kB muxing overhead 1.313130%

C:\Documents and Settings\Mark Phillips>

I check that D:\TEMP exists and it does (that's where the recordings are).

Mark

[mvallevand]

Sorry I can't see anything offhand. That particular file might be too complex for your machine and on-the-fly transcoding. If normal mpeg-2 files play ok, then you just might be hitting a limit of GBPVR and horsepower.

Martin

[NI2O]

That's just it, NO files or live TV play's properly. I'm not buying the maxed out limits of the machine argument. It's the same machine I've been using for almost 6 months. I just had to rebuild it thanks to contracting a virus. It was previously running perfectly fine.

I tried using the MVP this morning after having done the above file conversion. I selected an Elliot Mouse recording and was presented with the Strawberry Shortcake episode that I converted above. It was still playing back in a very choppy manner and so totally unwatchable.

[NI2O]

FIXED IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm embarrassed to say that it was a network issue of sorts. After reading your above answer an considering my reply I went looking at the network. I could not find anything wrong with my network proper (I do this for a living so it should be 110%!!) so that sent me to my machine.

Turns out that there was some crapware installed by my NVIDIA network drivers called "ForceWare" that was doing some sort of packet prioritization/inspection and that was slowing down network access in both directions.

It was a speed test that tipped me off. I did a test against Net@ccess in Parsippany (about 5 miles from me) which normally returns speeds of around 15mb (I'm on FIOS) but my machine was struggling to manage 1.5mb.

As I've said in previous posts, be gentle with me. I'm a Linux person.

My apologies for consuming valuable support time.

Mark