HELP US: Testing the new filter

[dekkers]

Hi Guys,

I did an installation of the latest svn's (both MP and tvserver). When using the MPV and MPA codec the first channels played smooth, but when changing the channel everything goes wrong. The image gets blocked/corrupted and finally it hangs. This also happens with ffdshow and dscaler codec.

Im using a Technotrend C1500 for waching tv with the latest driver from TT website.

If logs are needed please ask...

Thanks

Dekkers

[fab70]

Hi Guys,
I downloaded latest SVNs (RC1 0.2.3.0, TVServer and Plugin) and installed

- Opened TV on Canale 5 ok (Hotbird freq 11919)
- changed to Italia 1 ok (Hotbird freq 11919)
- changed to Rete 4 ok (Hotbird freq 11919)
- changed to Canale 5 ok (Hotbird freq 11919)
- canged to Rai1 MP Crashed (NB Hotbird freq 11766!!!!!)

In other works, it worked perfectly (in 1-2 secs I'm able to chage channel) with channels with the same frequency but crashes when I change frequency.

Hope this can help.

Ciao

PS: many thanks to Frodo and the MP team for your fantastic job!!

Area: Media Portal Plugins
MediaPortal Version: 0.2.3.0-SVN-28.06.2007-16:58:01,19-Build 15031
 
 (2007-06-29)
MediaPortal Skin: BlueTwo
Windows Version: Windows XP (SP2)
.NET CLR Version: 2.0.50727
DirectX Version: 4.09.00.0904 (9.0c)
Audio Codec: ffdshow Audio Decoder
Video Codec: ffdshow Video Decoder
CPU Type: AMD Athlon 64 3000+
Memory: 1 GB
Motherboard: A8N-E (ASUSTeK Computer INC.)
TV Card Model: Floppy DVB-S (firmware 2.2.6 - 42050)
TV Card Type: DVB
TV Card Driver: 4.8.0
Video Card Model: Msi Ms-starforce Geforce 6600 GT (nvidia Geforce 6600 Gt) (128 MB)
Video Card Driver: -
Video Card Resolution: 1024x768
Video Render Type: -
Audio Card Model: Realtek AC'97 Audio
Audio Card Driver: -

[iosub]

Hi...

I have just start testing new filter..
MP Build 15077
Tv Server Build 15077
Windows Vista Ultimate with VistaCodecs Pack Build 4.47


I dont get video or audio
this part of Mediaportal.LOG
2007-07-04 01:53:41.724836 [Info.][MPMain]: tvhome:startplay:rtsp://SALA/stream6.0
2007-07-04 01:53:41.730695 [Info.][MPMain]: g_Player.Play(rtsp://SALA/stream6.0 TV)
2007-07-04 01:53:41.748272 [Info.][MPMain]: TSReaderPlayer play:rtsp://SALA/stream6.0 radio:False
2007-07-04 01:53:41.761943 [Info.][MPMain]: TSReaderPlayer: live tv
2007-07-04 01:53:41.774638 [Info.][MPMain]: TSReaderPlayer:play rtsp://SALA/stream6.0
2007-07-04 01:53:41.801980 [Info.][MPMain]: TSReaderPlayer:grapbuilder=null
2007-07-04 01:53:41.827369 [Info.][MPMain]: TSReaderPlayer: GetInterfaces()
2007-07-04 01:53:41.835181 [Info.][MPMain]: TSReaderPlayer: Enabling DX9 exclusive mode
2007-07-04 01:53:41.842016 [Info.][MPMain]: Main: DX exclusive mode: False
2007-07-04 01:53:41.854711 [Info.][MPMain]: TSReaderPlayer: add _vmr9
2007-07-04 01:53:41.859593 [Info.][MPMain]: vmr9:ctor()
2007-07-04 01:53:41.865452 [Info.][MPMain]: vmr9:ctor() done:True
2007-07-04 01:53:41.871311 [Info.][MPMain]: vmr9:addvmr9
2007-07-04 01:53:41.922089 [Info.][MPMain]: VMR9Helper: enabled YUV mixing - No DX Error
2007-07-04 01:53:41.927948 [Info.][MPMain]: VMR9: now active
2007-07-04 01:53:41.933807 [Info.][MPMain]: VMR9Helper:Vmr9 Added
2007-07-04 01:53:41.938690 [Info.][MPMain]: TSReaderPlayer: add codecs
2007-07-04 01:53:42.005092 [Info.][MPMain]: added filter:Microsoft MPEG-2 Video Decoder to graph
2007-07-04 01:53:42.021692 [Info.][MPMain]: added filter:Microsoft MPEG-1/DD Audio Decoder to graph
2007-07-04 01:53:42.026575 [Info.][MPMain]: add filterefault DirectSound Device to graph clock:True
2007-07-04 01:53:42.032434 [Info.][MPMain]: DirectShowUtils: found renderer - Default DirectSound Device
2007-07-04 01:53:42.857576 [Info.][MPMain]: DirectShowUtils: Passed removing audio renderer
2007-07-04 01:53:42.863435 [Info.][MPMain]: DirectShowUtils: Passed finding Audio Renderer
2007-07-04 01:53:42.869294 [Info.][MPMain]: added filterefault DirectSound Device to graph
2007-07-04 01:53:42.876130 [Info.][MPMain]: setAsReferenceClock sync source No DX Error
2007-07-04 01:53:42.882965 [Info.][MPMain]: TSReaderPlayer:exception while creating DShow graph Retrieving the COM class factory for component with CLSID {B9559486-E1BB-45D3-A2A2-9A7AFE49B23F} failed due to the following error: 80040154. at MediaPortal.Player.TSReaderPlayer.GetInterfaces(St ring filename)
2007-07-04 01:53:42.893707 [Info.][MPMain]: TSReaderPlayer:GetInterfaces() failed
2007-07-04 01:53:42.930814 [Info.][MPMain]: player:ended
2007-07-04 01:53:42.942532 [Info.][MPMain]: TSReaderPlayer:cleanup DShow graph False
2007-07-04 01:53:42.974756 [Info.][MPMain]: TSReaderPlayer: vmr9 disable
2007-07-04 01:53:42.998192 [Info.][MPMain]: TSReaderPlayer: vmr9 dispose
2007-07-04 01:53:43.004051 [Info.][MPMain]: vmr9ispose
2007-07-04 01:53:43.009910 [Info.][MPMain]: VMR9: not active

I havent fing the CLSID on the registry. {B9559486-E1BB-45D3-A2A2-9A7AFE49B23F}

Thanks For your gread JOB!!

[frodo]

Still a lot of problems :-(
Pretty weird, since it works ok here, so back to the drawing board
Did you guys also test playback of normal .ts files with this filter?

Frodo

[lkuech]

Hi Frodo.

I did not test the playback of ts files via MyVideos (if it is that what you mean). But I will test it this afternoon/evening.

Bye
Lars

[daan640]

I have tested the new tsreader and it works much better for me. If I create the useTsReader.txt file and I restart the TvService and MP itself I can skip back and forward and only normal things occur. It works fine for both recordings and live-tv. Changing the channel works also fine.

With the other reader I had huge problems. If I skipped there was only 2 seconds sound and a still video frame. I had to switch of live tv in MP and switch it on again. Recorded tv and changing the channel had the same weird result.

I also tried the new reader on the remote MP on my laptop, but I didn't succeeded yet.

There is a problem left. Sometimes, after some minutes looking to recorded tv, MP freezes. There's nothing left then killing MP.

Here is my configuration
- Asus S-Presso with Intel Pentiium 4
- Onboard video Intel
- Freecom DVB-T
- DScaler video and audio
- MP V0.2.3.0 RC1 + SVN 15067
- TV-engine SVN 15070

Keep up the good work

[jcee]

@Frodo:

Is this new filter also supposed to address the problems many people have with stuttering and freezing playback (log: play=>repaint events)?!

These were discussed some times in several threads and as far as I am aware it seems to be a problem of stream errors that caused the demux=>decode=>render process to stop.
(It has become better for me after switching from PV to MPA/MPV codecs, but still no real fix)

Maybe this filter helps here too? (Though question if it really is used when recording to MPEG2, instead of TS)

[tourettes]

Originally Posted by jcee

@Frodo:

Is this new filter also supposed to address the problems many people have with stuttering and freezing playback (log: play=>repaint events)?!

These were discussed some times in several threads and as far as I am aware it seems to be a problem of stream errors that caused the demux=>decode=>render process to stop.
(It has become better for me after switching from PV to MPA/MPV codecs, but still no real fix)

Hard to say, if that stuttering is caused by dropped data packeds in the stream then there isn't anything that software could do to fix it. For example Nvidia mpeg2 decoder drops those damaged frames and MPV shows corruption on the screen if the data loss is not too big.

Freezing could be caused by some bug in the older TSFileSource.ax filter (or MS demuxer) that we are currently using and might be fixed by the new TsReader.ax, but it could be caused also by some 3rd party component. Fox example older versions of quartz.dll are known to have freezing issues on some systems. Make sure that you are using the latest quartz.dll when testing old/new filter.

One possibility to try to track down this freezing issue is to provide a .ts recording (made with tve3) that is causing freezing on your system. Then we could check if it's causing some issues on the other systems as well.

Originally Posted by jcee

Maybe this filter helps here too? (Though question if it really is used when recording to MPEG2, instead of TS)

It's only used for .ts files, not mpeg recordings.

[daan640]

I tried the tsreader on the remote client as well, but then I don't see anything. It only results in a black screen. I assume that I have to put useTsReader.txt on the remote PC as well. I installed the latest SVN of MP (15067) and TV-service (15070). What did I do wrong?

[scythelt]

Originally Posted by daan640

I tried the tsreader on the remote client as well, but then I don't see anything. It only results in a black screen. I assume that I have to put useTsReader.txt on the remote PC as well. I installed the latest SVN of MP (15067) and TV-service (15070). What did I do wrong?

Frodo has already commented that the new tsreader won't work in a multi-seat environment. Wait a few days and multi-seat users might be able to test the new filter out then...