MVP and AVI

[mhj.vermeer]

I know that there are a view topics about this, but i still have a few questions. I have a few avi files and like to play the over my MVP.

I installed xrecord but i can not tell the plugin where my avi video's are. If i select video in the xrecord menu it tells me, you have no videos.

I found out that i have to install VLC, what is that?

Thanks

[bluesxman]

Playing AVI files is now built in to the latest version. Try accessing your AVIs from the video library.

[mhj.vermeer]

I Can play AVI files local, but not yet via my MVP

[HenkH]

To do this on your MVP you have to have a recent version of the Hauppauge software installed on your Server system (you don't need to run the Hauppauge services though).

[mhj.vermeer]

I installed the Hauppauge MVP software but no succes. What software from Haupauge do i have to install exactely to get this to work.

[sub]

Email your Trans2MVP.exe-native.log to me at support@devnz.com and I'll take a look.

[groover km]

I have a somewhat related question as I'm also having problems with avi files on my mvp (screen size and sync, blahblahblah...)

I don't *think* ffdshow is being invoked as if I configure it for an OSD (can't remember the correct term, I'm at work) I should see it on the file played so I know it's working yeah? Nothing I do in ffdshow config seems to have any effect.

I'm sure I am missing something, but I'm not sure what.... my solution used to be to re-encode avi's at 640x480 or 320x240 (per hauppauge guidelines), but I was hoping using ffdshow as I've seen it described would remove the need for this (boring) activity.

Can anyone help? I'd love to get this sorted out.

Thanks in advance.

[sub]

When editing the ffdshow settings yuou need to edit the ffdshow 'raw-only filter configuration' settings.

To see if ffdshow is being used, you can run graphedit when a transcode is progress and use the 'connect to remote graph' menu option. This will show the graph that is being used.

[groover km]

Thanks for the quick reply!

I was <cough> editing the xvid/dvix settings... <cough>

[boondoggle]

There is something to this problem. Here are the facts:

1) FFDShow is my only XVID/DIVX codec on my box.
2) AVIs play fine on my machine using GBPVR or ZoomPlayer (using
FFDShow)
3) I have configured GBPVR to use FFDShow for MVP transcode &
post-processing
4) Yet when I try to play an AVI on the MVP it dies (server search reset)
and the transcode log file claims a proper decoder cannot be found.

It seems that the GBPVR code stumbles when trying to find the appropriate
decoders (or perhaps it's not using the Hauppauge code correctly?)

-Boondoggle