MVP and AVIs

[sub]

I asked you to try with it "disabled". You screenshot above shows it enabled.

The following message are shown when you force it to use ffdshow.

22:44:55.531 VERBOSE @1
22:44:55.546 VERBOSE @2

Its never getting to "@3", so its dying when it tries to add ffdshow into the mix.

Try it again with ffdshow disabled.

[sub]

Anyways, I've got to go out of town for the weekend. I don't want to take more of your time away from other things. There is probably something in my S/W configuration that is wrong. Perhaps some time for reflection will give us some fresh ideas.

Sorry, but I had today spare and was able look at this and try to resolve it. I wont be looking at this again before release.

If someone else is able to pickup where MediaDogg left off, then I'm available to look at this problem for a few more hours, otherwise its going to stay unresolved.

[LilY0da]

Eeeek, I guess I missed the window... I spent 4 hours installing my PVR-250 yesterday... And now I'm at work, so can't do any testing. Sorry Sub. I'll still run the debugs and post them here, so that whenever you get a chance you'll be able to pick them up here.

EDIT: same behavior, same crash, with the stock version or the one you linked here, with or without FFDshow turned on.
When I get a chance, I'll try on a regular PC with the minimal set of codec, see if it works.
If anyone knows of better codecs, or max bitrates, anything like that, let me know. So far, that's the only thing I haven't been able to make work correctly on the MVP.

[MediaDogg]

Hey I'm back and I just saw my mistake. The word "ffdshow" in two places on the config window. I was only looking at the lefthand checkbox. Darn, blew a prefectly good chance to get help from sub. Sorry all!

Update: Ok, I unchecked the correct box this time, and now there is a glimmer of hope. Most avi's play for 1 or 2 seconds then stop. Now to explore how to tweak something to get them to play longer, or to see some pattern for which some avi's play better than others.

Here is the log output (note to sub: sometimes an AC3filter gets loaded also):

18:08:35.032 INFO Log started
18:08:35.047 INFO TRANSCODING: F:\TOBEMO~1\HEARTS~1.AVI
18:08:35.047 INFO TARGET: F:\GBPVR Recordings\MVP000DFE00619A.mpg
18:08:35.204 VERBOSE AVI file type.
18:08:35.204 VERBOSE About to check for Async Reader
18:08:35.235 VERBOSE ...found, about to query for IFileSourceFilter interface
18:08:35.250 VERBOSE About to render graph
18:08:35.250 VERBOSE Rendering pin
18:08:35.391 VERBOSE About to list graph filters
18:08:35.391 INFO Graph contains the following filters:
18:08:35.391 INFO - MainConcept (Hauppauge) MPEG Encoder
18:08:35.391 INFO - MPEG Layer-3 Decoder
18:08:35.391 INFO - XviD MPEG-4 Video Decoder
18:08:35.391 INFO - AVI Splitter
18:08:35.391 INFO - F:\TOBEMO~1\HEARTS~1.AVI
18:08:35.563 VERBOSE About to start graph
18:08:35.672 VERBOSE transcode processing started

[drain]

Just wanted to let you know you're not alone! The same sort of thing happens to me. Unfortunately I haven't had any time to explore the problem further, so I'm interested to know how you get on.

[LilY0da]

Which CPU do you have in your system? If you have P4 you need to use FFDshow for SSE2. There are two or more types of FFDshow to use.

AthlonXP. Think I got the right version, but it crashes with or without FFDshow anyway...

What you get from Hauppauge! for free is okay? DCCheck from MS to force XP to use another Decoder software. I used MainConcepts Encoder/Decoder 1.42 but you have to pay for it though.

Yeah, the free soft you download from Hauppauge's website plays AVIs without a problem... That's about the only thing it does though, which is why I'm trying to get GBPVR or a MythTV client wedged in that MVP

What do you mean by DCCheck? (sorry if it's a n00b question)

[MediaDogg]

AthlonXP. Think I got the right version, but it crashes with or without FFDshow anyway...

No offense meant but ... could you just indulge me and check the log entry to make sure that ffdshow is not being called, and/or make sure you didn't make the same mistake I made relative to disabling the ffdshow call. Sorry, but you shouldn't be crashing if ffdshow is not being called, I think ... :confused:

[LilY0da]

Yes, did check the log, and FFDshow is not being called.

Mine crashes just after

Code:

INFO TARGET: F:\GBPVR Recordings\MVP000DFE00619A.mpg

I'm at work, so I reused the lines from your log to show what was the last line I had in my log before the crash

[sub]

I doubt it would crash at exactly that point. The next line just checks the file extension and either displays "AVI file type" or "WMV file type".

[LilY0da]

I doubt it would crash at exactly that point.

Well it does :-| I am the incarnation of Murphy's law, did I not tell you?

here's the log without FFDshow (managed to VNC into home PC)

Code:

18:16:27.203    INFO    Log started
18:16:27.203    INFO    TRANSCODING: \\ROQUEFORT\MEDIA\VIDEO\X\CQH22J~O.AVI
18:16:27.203    INFO    TARGET: \\Roquefort\media\RecordedShows\MVP000DFE0078C7.mpg

And another one, more recent (the place the temp MPG file is stored has changed)

Code:

22:24:15.984    INFO    Log started
22:24:15.984    INFO    TRANSCODING: \\ROQUEFORT\MEDIA\VIDEO\AI\AUXI8S~2.AVI
22:24:15.984    INFO    TARGET: \\Roquefort\media\LiveTV\MVP000DFE0078C7.mpg

The 2 above were while using the Trans2MVP you linked to in this thread...

EDIT: haven't re-tried since I switched from UNC paths to mapped drive. Will try again tonight