Anyone able to watch HDTV in multiseat?

[infinityloop]

Originally Posted by mts

Works! Without stutterings! - > EDIT: Sorry I opend the *.ts file.

so the rtsp stream itselfe seems to be fine.

is this a "new" issue, or didn't you try before?

[mts]

Ok I made some more trials.
1. I switched-off the "epg while timeshifting" function. LiveTV seems to work better now. (it is definitely better)
2. I have checked the recorded movie again. At the beginning I have also alot of stutterings but later in the movie it seems to be better. IMHO the rtsp-stream is very sensible agains any kind of corrupted data. As soon as it starts stuttering it takes alot of time until it returns to a smooth picture (sometimes it doesn't return).

I have this issu since the beginning.

[infinityloop]

Originally Posted by mts

IMHO the rtsp-stream is very sensible agains any kind of corrupted data.

i doubt that because you said that in VLC it works fine?

btw. i watch LiveTV (HD 720p / 1080i - multiseat) on a daily basis, and i have no stutter issues at all (coreavc/floppy-s2/Hauppauge-Nova-S2).

[mts]

I have rechecked it with VLC.
VLC it plays normaly, but than the picture freezes completely, while MP starts stuttering at that moment.

[tourettes]

Could you please try the following StreamingServer.dll ? Who knows maybe it helps.

http://forum.team-mediaportal.com/270017-post7.html

[een_mq]

Hi,

I maybe off the mark here, bu I was in the same boat for months.
No matter what I do TV stutters on live tv and sometimes on playback. As well as losing the ability to watch or rewind currently recorded live tv. Not to mention slow channel change. And it all see random too sometimes.

After a lot of rebuilds and reading the forum and testing, I came into the following conclusions, or set of conditions that if fulfilled will maximise your chances of stutter free playback. Of course once you achieve this you can always ghost or save the current configuration and try to narrow the problems down. The current guidelines have helped me to achieve perfect TV server (well close to it anyway), you may see the guides below from other post or the wiki

1. Install all ( I mean all) windows updates including optional ones. Install the latest direct x redistributable, and install the latest graphics card driver and TV card driver. I am currently using a beta version of nvidia driver as it is much more stable than my previous one and faster channel changing too. It would be perfect if you can start from a clean install.

2. Remove anti virus (you can always reinstall this when everything else is working). In my case, my symantec anti virus keeps blocking or constantly checking the files in mediaportal directory even though I told it to ignore. Once removed, it's good again. Now I use one of my client to do a network scanning to my tv server.

3. Turn off windows or software firewall (again it can always be turned on later) Zone alarm is notoriously bad in causing a delay when an external app want to access TV server

4. Do not install any codec, including all codec packs. I only use clean install and ffdshow tryouts and the following guide will make sure you can play any files out here without any other codec. Going from a codec pack to ffdshow only cuts my channel changing time from 10 secs to 2-3 secs and remove stuttering
Check this page for the ffdshow guide, make sure you remove all codec packs beforehand...
http://users.vic.chariot.net.au/~mit...uide%20v.2.pdf

5. Disable any sleep mode, hard drive sleep time, etc. We want to make sure we have the optimal condition to run Mediaportal server.

6. Then finally ater saving your image at this point (so you can restart if you fail), install mediaortal tv server, making sure you read the wiki on installing to the t. Most of the important points are already mentioned above.
Don't bother turning on any plugin, guide, etc. Jut make sure that you can:
- watch live tv without stutter
- watch recorded tv without stutter
- watch currently recorded t with rewind and fast forward

7. If all these are ok, then you can go ahead and try the client. With the client just follow step 1-5 and then install the client only by choosing on the MPI installer to do a custom install and installing the client only.
Make sure that you can hit the tv server from the client by hostname as well (add a mapping under c:\windows\system32\etc\drivers\hosts file)


I have used this guide to install two different tv server on different hardware config with great success.
Hopefully this will be of some help

Ed

[mts]

my normal SDTV works at the moment nearly smooth. But HD is still not watchable in LiveTV. Recorded TV-Shows are much better.
When I don't watch Live HDTV over RTSP, it works very well (until the buffer is full and a new one gets created)

[tourettes]

Originally Posted by mts

my normal SDTV works at the moment nearly smooth. But HD is still not watchable in LiveTV. Recorded TV-Shows are much better.
When I don't watch Live HDTV over RTSP, it works very well (until the buffer is full and a new one gets created)

Did you try that streamingserver.dll I linked?

[mts]

WOW! I tried this streaminserver.dll right now.
It works!! Why is this not the standard-SVN version?

Many thanks!

[tourettes]

Originally Posted by mts

WOW! I tried this streaminserver.dll right now.
It works!! Why is this not the standard-SVN version?

Well, no one who has had trouble has been trying it before We dont commit stuff that might break something if there is no proof that it fixes something