resume and end of show

[lif]

Two a little bit annoying things to mention which previous version didn't have, but current has.

1) when gbpvr asks user to restart or resume recording playback, the background frame flickers one frame back and forward. I don't know, is it because of interlacing picture or what. This also happens when playback has reaced to the end of recording.

2) When the playback of recording has come to the last frame, the last frame is shown infinitely. It waits then user response on remote to press back/exit. It would be glad if there will be a timeout for about couple of minutes and then it itself exits to recordings menu. For example, I have setup XP to go into hibernation after 15min of inactivity. But when the last frame is still active, it never goes into hibernation and computer will consume power forever if there will be no manual human action.

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1) when gbpvr asks user to restart or resume recording playback, the background frame flickers one frame back and forward. I don't know, is it because of interlacing picture or what. This also happens when playback has reaced to the end of recording.

This because it is not possible to update the screen when using VMR if the video is paused. To force it to update the OSD (to reflect button selection etc), I need to seek to the start of the video and then back to the current location. Unfortunately MPEG video doesnt support frame accurate seeking, so you dont necessarily end up back at exactly the same spot. I dont know of any work around.

Quote[/b] ]2) When the playback of recording has come to the last frame, the last frame is shown infinitely. It waits then user response on remote to press back/exit. It would be glad if there will be a timeout for about couple of minutes and then it itself exits to recordings menu. For example, I have setup XP to go into hibernation after 15min of inactivity. But when the last frame is still active, it never goes into hibernation and computer will consume power forever if there will be no manual human action.

This isnt normal. Try a different MPEG decoder - it might help.

[lif]

1) I might be on the wrong lane, but I think the workaround should be here. When starting the playback, wouldn't it be possible to set the logics to:
* search recording info from db, if not found start direct playback (goto end of this routine)
* if found then seek to the given position of mpeg (may be you should also use framecount along with timescale?)
* read approximate frame from mpeg and get two clone copies of it to memory
* start listening of remote/keyb and start playing this two frame sequence as movie, so VMR and OSD will be updated
* when user selects RESTART, seek beginning and start playback
* when user selects RESUME, don't seek, but stop two frame playback from memory and start playback from previously seeked frame from mpeg file.
Hope, you got the idea and I guess you could use this workflow.

2) Hmm. I will. But! As I understood, this isn't GBPVR feature not to let computer to standby when paused, but this is the codec issue? If so, is it possible to hardcode into GBPVR not to let computer to standby when show/video is in paused state?

PS. Just now come into two bugs(?) with GBPVR recording playback.

a) I paused it for about two minutes and before resume I wanted to see how long this recording lasts. No effect pressing remote buttons, after unpause I had opportunity to see the progress bar. I think there will be two solutions:
a.1) when user presses pause on remote, before freezing last frame, display progressbar and other info and then freeze it.
a.2) use this buffered two-frame "pseudo-movie" to keep VMR running and enable interactive part.

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1) It doesnt work like this. What you describe is not possible.

2) I've decided this is probably cause by your use of the teletext component. Turn it off.

a) This is the exact problem I mentioned above. It is not possible to update the screen in anyway (durations, highlighted key etc) while VMR is paused.

[lif]

Quote[/b] (sub @ Mar. 10 2005,17:10)]1) It doesnt work like this. What you describe is not possible.

2) I've decided this is probably cause by your use of the teletext component. Turn it off.

a) This is the exact problem I mentioned above. It is not possible to update the screen in anyway (durations, highlighted key etc) while VMR is paused.

Quote[/b] ]a) This is the exact problem I mentioned above. It is not possible to update the screen in anyway (durations, highlighted key etc) while VMR is paused.

As I have done some Linux coding in the past, I could assure that noting is impossible, there is always a workaround So, lets keep minds open and keep looking if there is already some ways to do it.