dropouts when watching hd tv (2 Viewers)

[RicoHTPC]

Unfortunately I've still got dropouts. Will provide logs soon.
How often is tsreader comparing timestamp and clock?

 

[Owlsroost]

Unfortunately I've still got dropouts. Will provide logs soon.
How often is tsreader comparing timestamp and clock?

It compares them continuously, and can adjust the speed once per second.

Can you please change the 'EnableBufferLogging' value to 1 in the TsReader registry settings before doing a logging run - it will then log extra information every 4 seconds which helps me to see what's happening.

 

[RicoHTPC]

Allright, will do.
Short question again: after timeshifting for some minutes half an hour ago I now can't report anything negative.
Is the initial buffer time needed for this version to work? Because meanwhile I set this to 0 again...

 

[Owlsroost]

Is the initial buffer time needed for this version to work? Because meanwhile I set this to 0 again...

Yes, it is needed.

This version only has automatic 'speed control' to compensate for clock differences, it doesn't try to automatically adjust the initial.buffer time.

 

[HTPCSourcer]

Hi @Owlsroost ,

I am running your automatically adjusting version since yesterday. It does in principle look good, however, I realized some weird error messages - not related to MediaPortal - in the logs. Occasionally I am getting "invalid signature" errors:

[2014-10-27 09:07:09,972] [2c769818] [ 74c] - FileReader::Read() read failed, Error = 0x80090006, Ungültige Signatur, filename = \\Server\Timeshift\live3-0.ts.tsbuffer

No big surprise that I would get picture/audio breaking off if the file cannot be read from the server (running on WS Server 2012E). These messages occur only when playing Live TV, I never get this when watching recordings. There is very little reference about this error on the web.

 

[HTPCSourcer]

Just saw that @Snoopy87 is having similar problems when accessing the timeshift files via UNC:
https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/...ezes-with-rtsp-unc.127225/page-3#post-1099939

 

[Owlsroost]

Just saw that @Snoopy87 is having similar problems when accessing the timeshift files via UNC:
https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/...ezes-with-rtsp-unc.127225/page-3#post-1099939

Yes, it seems to be a new Windows 8/WS2012 R2 SMB 'feature'

It's not a 'terminal' problem since TsReader will just keep re-trying the file read until it gets the data, so I might just suppress those messages in the log.

 

[HTPCSourcer]

Yes, it seems to be a new Windows 8/WS2012 R2 SMB 'feature'

I answered in the other thread. Since I am experiencing the same behaviour with Server 2012E + Win 7, it does not appear to be related to any new code that Microsoft may have introduced in Win 8 / Server 2012 R2.

It's not a 'terminal' problem since TsReader will just keep re-trying the file read until it gets the data, so I might just suppress those messages in the log.

Hhm, sounds much like a head-in-the-sands approach. Yesterday I was watching a 1080i stream and after some time (ca. 30 min) there were massive stream interruptions with major difficulties to recover from, which coincided with prolonged occurences of said read failures (unfortunatly the log is gone).

Should we continue the discussion about this in the other thread?

 

[RicoHTPC]

Yes, it is needed.

Unfortunately the entry in the registry isn't there...

 

[HTPCSourcer]

You have to create it yourself.