LiveTV and playback problems in PCH2 mode

[carrierlost]

Strange on second try (did a reboot of PCH) it was a success to play the file.
Blue skin feels snappier. Figured out how to select the sample .ts file via Video Library. Doesn't play through mvpmcx2 unfortunately. Does it end before HDMI sync is complete?

BTW Playing an even older file (after boot of PCH) resulted a multitude on mvpmcx2 process created and hung PCH.

...
1072 root 139812 S /etc/mvpmc/mvpmcx2 -m 720
1074 root 139812 S /etc/mvpmc/mvpmcx2 -m 720
1075 root 139812 S < /etc/mvpmc/mvpmcx2 -m 720
1076 root 139812 S < /etc/mvpmc/mvpmcx2 -m 720
1077 root 139812 S < /etc/mvpmc/mvpmcx2 -m 720
1078 root 139812 S /etc/mvpmc/mvpmcx2 -m 720
1079 root 139812 S /etc/mvpmc/mvpmcx2 -m 720
1081 root 139812 S /etc/mvpmc/mvpmcx2 -m 720
...

Results seem inconsistent. Is there some kind of race condition happening? I have a quad core PC as GBPVR server.

[mvallevand]

Strange on second try (did a reboot of PCH) it was a success to play the file.
Blue skin feels snappier. Figured out how to select the sample .ts file via Video Library. Doesn't play through mvpmcx2 unfortunately. Does it end before HDMI sync is complete?

- The blue skin is definitely the fastest PCH skin but I did try and it played with Mayhem 3 too

- That file plays fine for me from the GBPVR Video Library using mvpmcx2 with HDMI and with component.

- I never lost video sync playing it.

- multiple mvpmcx2 processes are normal they are closed with the power key.

- I don't think it is a race condition. The server side processing is quite basic.

Martin

[carrierlost]

I think I know what it is. The hint of running /etc/mvpmc/mvpmcx2 manually was a good one.

I thought that mvpmcx2 script was directly running off the network share, but it seems there is a intermediate mount to /etc/mvpmc. This ofcourse points to an actual directory on my harddrive, which I set up perhaps a year ago (according to instructions) to run telnet daemon on boot. Ofcourse this had also in it mvpmcx2. I'll try to clean up a bit and post results

[mvallevand]

I'm optimistic now. That is one of the reasons that I didn't recommend running from a hard disk or USB. However now with the CSI installations I had to rethink this, so starting with the 05/31 version I increment a version number

Running mvpmcx2 -v will get you this version number It should say 2.1.1 (or higher) all the obsolete versions will be at 0.7.5

Martin

[carrierlost]

Got it to work at 60Hz refreshes. Looks really good, nice work

Doesn't want to sync at 50Hz (tested 720p and 1080i) over HDMI.

Is the command line option:
/etc/mvpmc/mvpmcx2 -o hdmi -m 1080i --frequency 50 &

valid for 1080i 50Hz over HDMI?

It reports error:

...
(!) SMP863x: em86_check_encoders_compatibility FAILED: Not a valid standard-signal-connector combination: DSETV_HDTV50-DSOS_1080i-DSOC_HDMI, DSETV_HDTV50-DSOS_1080i-DSOC_YCrCb, DSETV_NTSC-DSOS_NTSC-DSOC_CVBS!
...

Gaya/mono works ok at 50Hz.

Full telnet message attached.

[mvallevand]

You must be up late tonight! I think I've got a solution to this long outstanding problem, but since my monitor works at 50Mhz I can't duplicate it. I believe the reason that so many people fail at 50 Mhz is that I don't set colour space 709. If you are willing to explore this let me know.

Martin

[carrierlost]

Sure I'm willing to explore!

[mvallevand]

Ok, great I'll post a version for you to try "tomorrow". I won't get to it for a few hours.

Martin

[carrierlost]

Looking forward to that, thanks.

My personal guess from the error message is that there are some flags which are incompatible with each-other. For example what is: DSETV_NTSC-DSOS_NTSC-DSOC_CVBS doing there in 50Hz land? Without seeing the source code / library doc I cannot make any more exact guestimates...

Will try to get some sleep now....

[mvallevand]

Looking forward to that, thanks.

My personal guess from the error message is that there are some flags which are incompatible with each-other. For example what is: DSETV_NTSC-DSOS_NTSC-DSOC_CVBS doing there in 50Hz land? Without seeing the source code / library doc I cannot make any more exact guestimates...

Will try to get some sleep now....

If you have a chance perhaps you could try and play an iso file. It doesn't have to be real, but I'd be interested in see what Syabas sets

The code is close to this http://git.mvpmc.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?....c;hb=HEAD except I've corrected the init values.

Edit: If you want could you try tonight's update and ignore the test.

Martin