Client question on live TV

[86atc250r]

I've got the client set up and working quite nicely - very cool feature.

In streaming mode, everything works fine.

In File sharing mode, recordings work great, live TV studders badly no matter what settings I use.

Seems overall that VMR7 or overlay manager is the way to go for my setup (Dell D600 laptop with ATI Mobility 9000 card) using the intervideo decoder. If I try VMR9 all sorts of odd things happen no matter what else I do.

Any thoughts on what I can try to fix the studdering issue in liveTV mode for the client? At first I thought it might be a buffering issue, but I can rewind to the beginning of the liveTV stream and the studdering doesn't go away.

I'd like to use file sharing mode if at all possible as the quality seems better, and the controls work much better.

Below is the native log
22:29:51.286 INFO Log started
22:29:51.286 VERBOSE getSetting(ShowClosedCaptions)
22:29:51.286 VERBOSE getSetting(UseFFDSHOW)
22:29:51.286 VERBOSE getSetting(TvShape)
22:29:51.286 VERBOSE getSetting(EnableTeleText)
22:29:51.286 VERBOSE getSetting(ForcedGraphTeardown)
22:29:51.286 VERBOSE getSetting(HorizontalZoom)
22:29:51.286 VERBOSE Horizontal Zoom: 1.050000
22:29:51.286 VERBOSE getSetting(VerticalZoom)
22:29:51.286 VERBOSE Vertical Zoom: 1.030000
22:29:51.286 VERBOSE getSetting(HorizontalOffset)
22:29:51.286 VERBOSE Horizontal Offset: 0
22:29:51.286 VERBOSE getSetting(VerticalOffset)
22:29:51.286 VERBOSE Vertical Offset: 0
22:29:51.286 VERBOSE getSetting(LiveTVPrePlayDelay)
22:29:51.286 VERBOSE getSetting(OSDTransparency)
22:29:51.286 VERBOSE MinimumFilePlaySize=200000
22:29:51.286 VERBOSE DirectShowPlayerVMR7() initialising...
22:29:51.286 VERBOSE getSetting(OSDTransparency)
22:30:05.827 INFO DirectShowPlayerBase::playVideoFile(\\Gabe\Media_Storage\Recorded_video\Overhaulin\Overhaulin_20060829_20002100.mpg)
22:30:05.887 VERBOSE Creating new graph
22:30:05.887 VERBOSE getSetting(PreferredAudioRenderer)
22:30:05.917 VERBOSE audio renderer filter: DirectSound: SigmaTel Audio
22:30:05.927 VERBOSE getSetting(TvShape)
22:30:05.927 VERBOSE getSetting(VMRPreferYUVMixing)
22:30:05.927 VERBOSE getSetting(VMRWindowedMode)
22:30:05.967 VERBOSE detected FPS as 29.970000
22:30:05.967 VERBOSE getSetting(PreferredAudioDecoder)
22:30:05.977 VERBOSE audio decoder filter: InterVideo Audio Decoder
22:30:05.977 VERBOSE getSetting(PreferredDecoder)
22:30:05.987 VERBOSE video decoder filter: InterVideo Video Decoder
22:30:05.987 VERBOSE getSetting(PreferredMpegPlaybackDemux)
22:30:06.207 VERBOSE getSetting(ListGraphFilters)
22:30:06.207 VERBOSE Graph contains the following filters:
22:30:06.207 VERBOSE - Video Renderer
22:30:06.207 VERBOSE - DirectSound: SigmaTel Audio
22:30:06.207 VERBOSE - InterVideo Video Decoder
22:30:06.207 VERBOSE - InterVideo Audio Decoder
22:30:06.207 VERBOSE - GB-PVR Flow Status
22:30:06.207 VERBOSE - MPEG-2 Demultiplexer
22:30:06.207 VERBOSE - \\Gabe\Media_Storage\Recorded_video\Overhaulin\Overhaulin_20060829_20002100.mpg
22:30:06.207 VERBOSE getSetting(SaveGraphFiles)
22:30:07.089 INFO DirectShowPlayerBase::playFile() done
22:30:07.109 VERBOSE DirectShowPlayerBase:etPlaybackRate(1.000000)
22:30:07.109 VERBOSE Restoring audio
22:30:37.392 VERBOSE NativeUtilities::MediaHelper:top()
22:30:37.402 VERBOSE DirectShowPlayerBase:top
22:30:37.402 VERBOSE DirectShowPlayerBase:top@2 (skipping window positioning)
22:30:37.402 VERBOSE DirectShowPlayerBase:top@3
22:30:37.542 VERBOSE DirectShowPlayerBase:top@4
22:30:37.542 VERBOSE DirectShowPlayerBase:top@5
22:30:37.542 VERBOSE DirectShowPlayerBase:top@6
22:30:37.542 VERBOSE DirectShowPlayerBase:top@7
22:30:37.542 VERBOSE DirectShowPlayerBase:top@8
22:30:37.552 VERBOSE DirectShowPlayerBase:top finished
22:31:03.980 INFO DirectShowPlayerBase::playVideoFile(\\Gabe\Media_Storage\LiveTV\Weird Weapons_3_20060915_22002300.mpg)
22:31:04.992 VERBOSE File already in use - probably still recording
22:31:05.993 VERBOSE File already in use - probably still recording
22:31:06.995 VERBOSE File already in use - probably still recording
22:31:08.006 VERBOSE File already in use - probably still recording
22:31:09.008 VERBOSE File already in use - probably still recording
22:31:10.019 VERBOSE File already in use - probably still recording
22:31:11.020 VERBOSE File already in use - probably still recording
22:31:12.022 VERBOSE File already in use - probably still recording
22:31:13.033 VERBOSE File already in use - probably still recording
22:31:14.035 VERBOSE File already in use - probably still recording
22:31:14.045 VERBOSE waited: 0 (0 - 1158377474) filesize: 0
22:31:14.055 VERBOSE Creating new graph
22:31:14.055 VERBOSE getSetting(PreferredAudioRenderer)
22:31:14.065 VERBOSE audio renderer filter: DirectSound: SigmaTel Audio
22:31:14.075 VERBOSE getSetting(TvShape)
22:31:14.075 VERBOSE getSetting(VMRPreferYUVMixing)
22:31:14.075 VERBOSE getSetting(VMRWindowedMode)
22:31:14.095 VERBOSE detected FPS as 29.970000
22:31:14.095 VERBOSE getSetting(PreferredAudioDecoder)
22:31:14.115 VERBOSE audio decoder filter: InterVideo Audio Decoder
22:31:14.115 VERBOSE getSetting(PreferredDecoder)
22:31:14.375 VERBOSE video decoder filter: InterVideo Video Decoder
22:31:14.475 VERBOSE Using GB-PVR Parser
22:31:14.536 VERBOSE Rendering graph
22:31:17.380 VERBOSE getSetting(ListGraphFilters)
22:31:17.380 VERBOSE Graph contains the following filters:
22:31:17.390 VERBOSE - Video Renderer
22:31:17.390 VERBOSE - DirectSound: SigmaTel Audio
22:31:17.390 VERBOSE - InterVideo Video Decoder
22:31:17.390 VERBOSE - InterVideo Audio Decoder
22:31:17.390 VERBOSE - GB-PVR Flow Status
22:31:17.390 VERBOSE - GB-PVR Parser
22:31:17.390 VERBOSE - SOURCE
22:31:17.390 VERBOSE getSetting(SaveGraphFiles)
22:31:17.520 INFO DirectShowPlayerBase::playFile() done
22:31:25.521 VERBOSE NativeUtilities::MediaHelper:top()
22:31:25.521 VERBOSE DirectShowPlayerBase:top
22:31:25.521 VERBOSE DirectShowPlayerBase:top@2 (skipping window positioning)
22:31:25.521 VERBOSE DirectShowPlayerBase:top@3
22:31:25.551 VERBOSE DirectShowPlayerBase:top@4
22:31:25.561 VERBOSE DirectShowPlayerBase:top@5
22:31:25.561 VERBOSE DirectShowPlayerBase:top@6
22:31:25.561 VERBOSE DirectShowPlayerBase:top@7
22:31:25.561 VERBOSE DirectShowPlayerBase:top@8
22:31:25.561 VERBOSE DirectShowPlayerBase:top finished
22:31:29.577 VERBOSE DirectShowPlayerBase:top
22:31:29.577 VERBOSE DirectShowPlayerBase:top finished

Thanks

[sub]

I'm not in front of my PC at the moment, but there is a <client mode cached read size> or something similar in the config.xml file that you could try increasing. It may help you with file streaming mode.

[86atc250r]

I'll give that a try and report back - Thanks!

[86atc250r]

Found this setting
<ClientModeCachedReadSize>49152</ClientModeCachedReadSize>
Changed to 89152, unfortunately, it didn't help the liveTV problem in file sharing mode.

[sub]

Sorry, there isnt really anything else you can tweak. You'd probably need to stick with streaming mode.

[86atc250r]

Will do - thanks for the prompt response

[86atc250r]

Couple other points of note:

No matter what I change the ClientModeCachedReadSize setting to, it doesn't seem to make a difference, either way - do I need to do anything special (like restart the recording svc) to make my changes take effect?

Also, if I pause the liveTV stream, when I resume playback, it will be smooth for a time before starting to studder again. However, rewinding does not seem to have the same effect.

[sub]

No matter what I change the ClientModeCachedReadSize setting to, it doesn't seem to make a difference, either way - do I need to do anything special (like restart the recording svc) to make my changes take effect?

You need to restart gbpvr.exe, but thats all. You only need to adjust this setting on the client machine.

[86atc250r]

OK - well, it looks like it's streaming mode for me - thanks again for your assistance