Client not playing TV stream from server (1 Viewer)

[2BitSculptor]

Client/Server:

MediaPortal Version: mediaportal-1.2 Beta
MediaPortal Skin: Default (mod)/...
Windows Version: XP MCE roll-up 2 + updates (sp3)
CPU Type: AMD Athlon 64X2 6000+ 3.01 GHz
HDD: WD eIDE 120GB / (2) WDC WD1600JS 160GB/ (3) WDC WD10EACS 1TB/ (1) WD WD20EARS 2TB
Memory: MWave 4GB DDR2 667=(2GB X 2)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-MA78GM-S2H
Video Card: on board ATI 3200
Video Card Driver: current update
Sound Card: on board Realtek HD & AC'97
Sound Card AC3: 1 Optical
Sound Card Driver: current update
1. TV Card: (2) HD HomeRun (4 tuners total)
1. TV Card Type: ATSC (dual) ethernet
1. TV Card Driver: hdhomerun_windows_20100828
2. TV Card: WINTV-PVR-150 MCE
2. TV Card Type: analog FM/S-Vid
2. TV Card Driver: from install disk
MPEG2 Video Codec: (SAF 6) ffdshow/PVD 11
MPEG2 Audio Codec: (SAF 6) ffdshow
h.264 Video Codec: (SAF 6) ffdshow
Satelite/CableTV Provider: OTA ATSC
HTPC Case: Silverstone LC17B
Cooling: CPU fan, 2 x 80 mm case fans
Power Supply: Thermaltake TR2-420W
Remote: Harmony 300 as MCE (US)
TV: Hitachi 32" analog crt TV
TV - HTPC Connection: VGA to S-video 4:3 (Grandtec PC to Video EZ)

Client:

MediaPortal Version: 1.2.0 beta
MediaPortal Skin: default wide
Windows Version: XP 32bit SP3
CPU Type: AMD Athlon 64X2 Dual 3800+ 2.01 GHz
HDD: 160GB/ 500 GB/ 1TB
Memory: 3GB
Motherboard: ASUS A8N32-SLI Deluxe
Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce 210
Video Card Driver: NVIDIA 6.14.12.7061 (4/7/20011)
Sound Card: Realtek AC97 (on board)
Sound Card Driver: 5.10.0.5900 (8/19/2005)
MPEG2 Video Codec: SAF 6/ ffdshow/PDVD 11
MPEG2 Audio Codec: SAF 6/ ffdshow
h.264 Video Codec: SAF 6/ ffdshow
Satelite/CableTV Provider: OTA
HTPC Case: generic ATX tower
Cooling: (open case)
Power Supply: 350W
Remote:
TV: VGA monitor

LAN: Gigabit LAN

When I turn TV on, the client only displays Black with no sound. I get Guide data and stream info. All other media from the server machine plays fine. Logs attached.

Thanks,

Chuck

 

[mm1352000]

Hi Chuck

Do you only experience this issue on your dedicated client, or on both the client and the server too (ie. using MP installed on the server)? Could it be a wireless internet signal quality or firewall configuration issue? I ask that because the TCP connect times in your logs are quite high at ~1 second...

 

[2BitSculptor]

Only on my client. I am using a wired gigabit LAN. Firewall seemed to be configured correctly by the installer on both machines. As I mentioned, I don't have an issue playing media from my shares, only LiveTV and RecordedTV. (TS). Both machines are using SAF 6 and settings in config are the same. The Client "thinks" it is playing a TV stream, but only displays a black screen. I do not, though, get the pause or skip popups, I do get the mini-guide (shows the channel active "yellow") and the STOP TV popups. My HTPC/Server shows that the stream is active, and I can get tuning details on the client.

I didn't have this issue in MP 1.0.2, UNTIL I had done a Windows Update a few months back. I had reported it then also, suspecting it might have been the update. I was hoping installing 1.2B would take care of it.. the only thing missing is the "cannot play stream" message, which returned me to the MyTV GUI.

Thanks for looking into this for me.

Chuck

 

[mm1352000]

I am using a wired gigabit LAN.

Sorry - should have seen that in your first post.

Firewall seemed to be configured correctly by the installer on both machines. As I mentioned, I don't have an issue playing media from my shares, only LiveTV and RecordedTV. (TS). Both machines are using SAF 6 and settings in config are the same. The Client "thinks" it is playing a TV stream, but only displays a black screen. I do not, though, get the pause or skip popups, I do get the mini-guide (shows the channel active "yellow") and the STOP TV popups. My HTPC/Server shows that the stream is active, and I can get tuning details on the client.

Okay, I think I'm able to visualise the issue better now. The strange thing for me as a TV Server dev is that your TV Server logs don't contain any tuning requests at all. Is that because these are client logs? I'd like to see some server logs too if that is possible...

The first weird thing I spot in the MP log is:

[COLLAPSE]2011-05-01 16:10:24.093750 [Info.][MPMain(1)]: xml:C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\Skin\DefaultWide\tvOSD.xml image id:350 width:0 height:0 gfx:-
2011-05-01 16:10:24.109375 [Warn.][MPMain(1)]: GUIWindow:OnWindowLoaded: 'C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\Skin\DefaultWide\tvOSD.xml' is missing control id 10 (window property: imgTvChannelLogo)
2011-05-01 16:10:24.109375 [Warn.][MPMain(1)]: GUIWindow:OnWindowLoaded: 'C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\Skin\DefaultWide\tvOSD.xml' is missing control id 35 (window property: lblCurrentChannel)
2011-05-01 16:10:24.109375 [Warn.][MPMain(1)]: GUIWindow:OnWindowLoaded: 'C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\Skin\DefaultWide\tvOSD.xml' is missing control id 39 (window property: imgRecIcon)
2011-05-01 16:10:24.109375 [Warn.][MPMain(1)]: GUIWindow:OnWindowLoaded: 'C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\Skin\DefaultWide\tvOSD.xml' is missing control id 100 (window property: lblCurrentTime)
2011-05-01 16:10:24.109375 [Info.][MPMain(1)]: GUIWindowManager: Could not find window 603
2011-05-01 16:10:24.125000 [Warn.][MPMain(1)]: GUIWindow:OnWindowLoaded: 'C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\Skin\DefaultWide\tvZAPOSD.xml' is missing control id 100 (window property: lblCurrentTime)
2011-05-01 16:10:24.125000 [Info.][MPMain(1)]: Checking external players plugins compatibility
2011-05-01 16:10:24.140625 [Info.][MPMain(1)]: Main: Loading windowmanager
2011-05-01 16:10:24.140625 [Info.][MPMain(1)]: Main: Resizing windowmanager
2011-05-01 16:10:24.140625 [Warn.][MPMain(1)]: Main: ***** OnDeviceLost *****
2011-05-01 16:10:24.156250 [Info.][MPMain(1)]: Main: OnDeviceReset called
2011-05-01 16:10:24.156250 [Info.][MPMain(1)]: Main: Resetting DX9 device
2011-05-01 16:10:24.156250 [Info.][MPMain(1)]: Main: UnRoute - done
2011-05-01 16:10:24.156250 [Debug][MPMain(1)]: TextureManager: Dispose()
2011-05-01 16:10:24.156250 [Info.][MPMain(1)]: TexturePackerispose()
2011-05-01 16:10:24.156250 [Info.][MPMain(1)]: fonts.SafeDispose()
2011-05-01 16:10:24.171875 [Warn.][MPMain(1)]: GraphicContext: NO screen calibration file found for resolution 1280x728![/COLLAPSE]

A skin issue? Not really sure what to make of this because I don't know the MP client code well enough.

Shortly after that I see:

[COLLAPSE]2011-05-01 16:10:37.156250 [Info.][MPMain(1)]: TVHome:turn tv on 6-2 RetroTV
2011-05-01 16:10:37.156250 [Info.][MPMain(1)]: TVHome.ViewChannelAndCheck(): View channel=6-2 RetroTV
2011-05-01 16:10:37.187500 [Debug][MPMain(1)]: CiMenu: PrepareCiMenu
2011-05-01 16:10:37.421875 [Info.][MPMain(1)]: succeededucceeded TvControl.VirtualCard
2011-05-01 16:10:37.437500 [Info.][MPMain(1)]: tvhome:startplay
2011-05-01 16:10:37.437500 [Info.][MPMain(1)]: tvhome:file:Z:\TimeShifting\live2-0.ts.tsbuffer
2011-05-01 16:10:37.453125 [Warn.][MPMain(1)]: tvhome:startplay. Phase 1 - -6 ms - Done method initialization
2011-05-01 16:10:37.453125 [Info.][MPMain(1)]: tvhome:startplay:rtsp://mediacenter:554/stream2.0 - using rtsp mode:True
2011-05-01 16:10:37.468750 [Debug][MPMain(1)]: MediaInfoWrapper: isTv:False, isRadio:False, isRTSP:True, isAVStream:False
2011-05-01 16:10:37.468750 [Debug][MPMain(1)]: MediaInfoWrapper: disabled for this content
2011-05-01 16:10:37.468750 [Info.][MPMain(1)]: RefreshRateChanger.AdaptRefreshRate: 'auto refreshrate changer' disabled
2011-05-01 16:10:37.468750 [Info.][MPMain(1)]: g_Player.Play(rtsp://mediacenter:554/stream2.0 TV)
2011-05-01 16:10:37.484375 [Debug][MPMain(1)]: PlayerFactory: Successfully created player instance for file - rtsp://mediacenter:554/stream2.0
2011-05-01 16:10:37.484375 [Info.][MPMain(1)]: TSReaderPlayer play:rtsp://mediacenter:554/stream2.0 radio:False
2011-05-01 16:10:37.500000 [Info.][MPMain(1)]: TSReaderPlayer: live tv
2011-05-01 16:10:37.500000 [Info.][MPMain(1)]: TSReaderPlayer: Enabling DX9 exclusive mode
2011-05-01 16:10:37.500000 [Debug][MPMain(1)]: Main: Received DX exclusive mode switch message. Fullscreen && maximized == False
2011-05-01 16:10:37.500000 [Info.][MPMain(1)]: TSReaderPlayerlay rtsp://mediacenter:554/stream2.0
2011-05-01 16:10:37.500000 [Info.][MPMain(1)]: TSReaderPlayer: GetInterfaces()
2011-05-01 16:10:37.531250 [Info.][MPMain(1)]: DirectShowUtils: First try to insert new audio renderer Default DirectSound Device
2011-05-01 16:10:37.640625 [Info.][MPMain(1)]: DirectShowUtils: Found audio renderer
2011-05-01 16:10:37.640625 [Debug][MPMain(1)]: DirectShowUtils: added filterefault DirectSound Device to graph
2011-05-01 16:10:37.656250 [Info.][MPMain(1)]: TSReaderPlayer: Add TsReader to graph
2011-05-01 16:10:37.656250 [Info.][MPMain(1)]: TSReaderPlayer: Open file: rtsp://mediacenter:554/stream2.0
2011-05-01 16:10:45.515625 [Info.][MPMain(1)]: TSReaderPlayer: Add codecs
2011-05-01 16:10:45.531250 [Info.][MPMain(1)]: Added filter: ffdshow Audio Decoder to graph
2011-05-01 16:10:45.531250 [Info.][MPMain(1)]: TSReaderPlayer: Render TsReader outputs
2011-05-01 16:10:45.593750 [Debug][MPMain(1)]: Check graph connections for: Default DirectSound Device
2011-05-01 16:10:45.593750 [Debug][MPMain(1)]: Check graph connections for: ffdshow Audio Decoder
2011-05-01 16:10:45.593750 [Debug][MPMain(1)]: Check graph connections for: TsReader
2011-05-01 16:10:45.593750 [Debug][MPMain(1)]: TSReaderPlayer: Last subtitle index: 0
2011-05-01 16:10:47.765625 [Info.][MPMain(1)]: TSReaderPlayer: OnInitialized
2011-05-01 16:10:47.765625 [Info.][MPMain(1)]: TSReaderPlayer: position:0, duration:0.147
2011-05-01 16:10:47.765625 [Info.][MPMain(1)]: g_Player.OnStarted() rtsp://mediacenter:554/stream2.0 media:TV
2011-05-01 16:10:47.765625 [Warn.][MPMain(1)]: tvhome:startplay. Phase 2 - 10414 ms - Done starting g_Player.Play()
2011-05-01 16:10:47.796875 [Warn.][MPMain(1)]: TVHome.OnClicked(): Total Time - 10730 ms
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Looks like you start watching channel "6-2 RetroTV" successfully, but perhaps the earlier issue has messed things up.

mm

 

[2BitSculptor]

Here are new logs from both the HTPC/server and the Client.

The HTPC is full screen (but you probably only want the server logs) and the client is in a window.

Thanks,

Chuck

 

[2BitSculptor]

Okay... I did some additional testing.

I turned off my MS firewall just for S&G. I now can play the LiveTV stream, although it stutters very badly. And when I play a Recorded program, MP stalls completely on the RecordedTV screen. RecordedTV seems to play the stream but no image or sound, just hangs on the RecordedTV screen. I assume Pause and Skip were working (in the background), and when I hit Stop (keyboard "b"), operation of the RecordedTV screen resumed.

I can play the TS file from a recorded 1280x720 (mpeg2) program perfectly from the RecordedTV folder on the server using VLC. So it isn't a LAN bandwidth problem.


Chuck