GBPVR client help!!

[zero_himself]

Hi all, I'm new here, but not exactly a noob. I recently setup GBPVR on a laptop with a Avermedia M039 tuner, and got it to work locally(on the laptop, with ok video, and minor audio errors), and set it up as a server.

Now when I connect with the desktop(the machine i want to be able to watch on), it will begin play back of live TV for about 2 seconds before it either goes back to the main menu(in file-sharing mode), or just hangs(in streaming mode). The same seems to occur whenever I change a channel remotely via the client.

I am running GBPVR on a dual core 2.0 ghz intel with 4 GB of ram, across a 1Gig LAN line(yeah, cables and router are all running at 1gig).

like I said, it plays locally just fine, but it seems next to useless for what I need it to do.

any ideas on where to start????

[stustunz]

what sort of files are they
if .ts then sharing is the way to go
dvr-ms then its get harder and infact i wouldnt even bother
im guessing the laptop is the client

[martint123]

im guessing the laptop is the client

I read it the other way round.

The server doesn't have to be very meaty, all it does is get data from the tuner, write it do disk and send it over the wire.
The client is the one that needs power to decode and display.

I just use an old p4 as a server and it handles multiple clients without a problem. What are you using for a BDA mux (misc 2 tab of config)?

[johnsonx42]

increase the livetv pre-delay setting in config on the client

[zero_himself]

Yep, laptop is the Server (Toshiba Satellite X205)
it's the only machine I got that can fit in the area...

increase the livetv pre-delay setting in config on the client

Tried that with no success, upon examing the logs, I see that end of playback of the file is what is terminating playback and returning me to the menu...., I'll check the file type I'm using when I get home, and post it here

thank you everyone ;-)

[zero_himself]

Using TS Mux

[zero_himself]

I feel this was *opps* MY BAD */opps*

I set the pre-delay on the server, not the client...****MODS NOTE****, you may want to include that in the FAQ....

I set the pre-delay for 4000(since MCE uses a 4 sec delay on this device), and now it seems to work GREAT..(no audio/video skips or anything)

THIS IS GREAT, NOW I CAN QUIT GETTING COPYRIGHT INFRINGMENT NOTICES FOR USING BIT TORRENT TO WATCH BATTLESTAR GALACTICIA!!!!!

thank you everyone ;-) (minus all parties involved in the battlestar comment)

[johnsonx42]

Glad you got it sorted. Just to clarify, do you mean that you first set the pre-delay on the server by mistake, then later set it on the client which fixed it? (that would be my expectation)

You can also legally watch Battlestar Galactica at hulu.com; yes, there are commercials that you can't skip, but only one 30 second commercial per break (or sometimes they'll give you a choice to watch one long movie preview first, and then no commercials at all). I find it quite tolerable, the video quality is quite good though not as smooth as I would like.

[zero_himself]

yeah, changed it on the client, and it now works ;-) more technical description below...

about web-streaming:
weird... with my verizon account, i spend 3 hrs streaming a 45 minute show....., I have to pause it to let it catch up for about an hour, and then if i'm lucky i can watch it... (fancast is even worse, it stops buffering when you pause...)

but anyway, here is *MY* tech description of the problem

I originally ran config on the laptop, and set the pre-delay to 4 seconds there....
then the client would drop out after about 2 secs of live tv, and write to the logs that it played until end of file

I was using remote desktop to talk to the laptop(it's in a impossible to work with position...), and I originally thought that that config would take care of my problem.

So what was happening was that my laptop(that I don't watch from) was getting a delay, and my client(desktop) was not getting that delay, and before the file was readable(with a few seconds of recording), my client had already read and processed the whole file and reached EOF(end of file), and said, oh he watched it already...

I still don't know why when streaming it would just hang, and i don't really care, if anyone *NEEDS* to know, contact me, and i'll try again and get a set of logs

[johnsonx42]

yes, you've got it right. the livetv pre-delay affects the playback process only. When you watch LiveTV from a client, there is no playback process running on the server side. GB-PVR has the recording/capturing/tuning side completely separated from the playback/gui side (which has numerous benefits, and the occaisional drawback).

As to why streaming wouldn't work, it doesn't work with .ts files. I don't know why it doesn't work with them, but it just doesn't. sub knows.