Unable to 'Play all' music or watch DVD

[bellissimo]

Hi,

I am a proud owner of a brand new PCH-A110. First of all many thanks to Martin et al. An amazing job getting GB-PVR integrated with the Popcorn Hour. I spent a long time reading all about the various PCH plugins available on the PCH forums, but when I tried out GB-PVR I was very impressed so thought I would try to go down this route instead.

So far I have got GB-PVR working on the PCH using a shared 'mvpmc' folder on my Windows XP box (Mayhem 3 skin, using latest versions of all software). I can now browse my Photos, Music and Videos on the PCH. My Photos are working perfectly, so thats fine. Single MP3s play fine. But I have some issues.

1) If I press 'Play' when an album folder is highlighted using the Music Plugin, it does not go to the PH logo, but details of the playback appear at the bottom of the screen, However no sound comes out (playing a single song works and goes to the PH logo screen). Is this a limitation of the Music Plugin?

2) Is there a way to get album art or a slideshow when playing an MP3?

3) Playing a whole album from the standard Music Library seems to play the tracks in fairly random order. The track names have the number at the start, so I was expecting it to use that to order the tracks it plays. Any way to get it to play in album order?

4) I have my DVDs ripped to VIDEO_TS on a folder on my PC. I followed the instructions to share the drive and create a share in PH, and I can do an 'ls' in telnet and it lists the folders, but when I play the DVD, nothing happens and I get 'Unabled to play DVD directories on an MVP' in the log. Works from the PC. This is my set up

XP: D:\Vids folder
GB-PVR: Directory set up called Videos, pointing to D:\Vids
PH: Share called Vids, pointing to \\PCNAME\Vids

Code:

mkdir /mnt/D:\\Vids
mount -t cifs //192.168.0.4/Vids /mnt/D:\\Vids -o username=guest,ro

Any help gratefully received.

[mvallevand]

Grazie bellissimo.

For 1 and 4 it looks like you config.xml setting for your MAC address is wrong or lower case.

2. Not really.

3 . <AutoShuffleRecursivePlay> should be false to queue songs in directory order

As a note the Mayhem 3 skin is pretty but if you ever find the main menu screens slow, try switching to the Blue skin, it is much more responsive.

If you still have any problems after this, compress and upload your logs.

Martin

[bellissimo]

Ah yes, I had a B instead of an 8. Now the movies play, which is great, but when I play an MP3 it starts off the same, saying 'Buffering...', but then the screen goes black instead of the PH logo, and the music plays but sounds distorted.

Here are the steps:

Start mvpmc
Go to Music
Browse to Nick Cave song
Play single Nick Cave song
Let it play for a short while then stop it
Press Return a couple of times to get back the the GBPVR UI.

Here is the log. Let me know if you need any more:

[mvallevand]

Nick Cave's music can be dark at times. Really when media is playing the PCH is responsible for what is being displayed so I can't really explain what you are seeing. Could you try and play the same song directly through the PCH. It could be a problem if there is bad embedded art, but those shouldn't open by http. Is \\192.168.0.58\ your PCH?

The distorted sound is probably the common PCH problem that the volume is set too high. Adjust the volume to zero to bring it out of the red.

Martin

[bellissimo]

192.168.0.58 is my music server where the music is streaming from. I dont have a disk in the PH. Setting the volume to 0 has fixed the distortion, thanks.

Still playing with a blank screen as background though.

[mvallevand]

Did you try to add a command line option trying to get background audio?

Martin

[bellissimo]

Oh yes I did. I set --no-nmt-gui a while ago, then read later that it was only for Net Radio but I forgot to take it out again. Working well now.

So just for the record this setting does not work so well with the Music Plugin at least. I also read somewhere else that if I embed the album art in the MP3 it will replace the PH logo, which will be another improvement.

Thanks for your help. I was beginning to despair slightly after getting bogged down in the forums.

Now to try and get the WOL working. My laptop goes into hibernate whenever I close the lid, so will want to wake it up when using the PH.

[mvallevand]

Unfortunately embedded art doesn't work over http and there is no apparent desire to add folder.jpg support, so even though these are things that could be done in hours that isn't where Syabas are going.

Since you are using PAL you will benefit from some of the changes that sub and I are making to improve GBPVR on the PCH, and you should get some audio eye candy.

Martin

[bellissimo]

Oh right, well I wont waste my time with that then, just glad the basics are working at the moment.

Will keep an eye out for your future developements.

[gehing]

I cannot play DVDs on my PCH too. I put the following lines in script.cgi:

[ ! -e /mnt/\\\\SPEEDY\\series ] && mkdir /mnt/\\\\SPEEDY\\series
mount -t cifs //192.168.1.100/series /mnt/\\\\SPEEDY\\series -o username=gehing,rw;

When I try to play a episode of Ghost Whisperer through plugin MyVideos, I see the following in the log:

16:34:45.590 VERBOSE [6] About to request DVD playback of: \\SPEEDY\series\Ghost Whisperer\Season 1\1006 Homecoming
2009-02-14 16:34:45.598 VERBOSE [6] Sending MVP Video Playback Request: \\SPEEDY\series\Ghost Whisperer\Season 1\1006 Homecomingvideo_ts\VIDEO_TS.IFO
2009-02-14 16:34:45.599 VERBOSE [6] Video file not found, request not sent
2009-02-14

There is obviously a backslash missing between Homecoming and video_ts, what can I do about this?

Regards,
Gert