initial support for Hauppuage HD-PVR (4 Viewers)

[ixian]

Yeah, I was finally settling in to my "stable" setup - which really isn't, because the 12-22 svn, while it may work the best for the HD-PVR, isn't exactly stable - and I ran in to this. Actually it's a problem I hadn't thought about in other ways - I need to find a way to be able to map my remote buttons so that they will be passed straight to the blaster, and not Media Portal. I'll check around the forums and see if anyone else has run in to this, we can't be the only ones.

 

[WileECoyote]

I was looking at this last night. I use the IR Server Suite with an external program "directv.exe" to send signals via serial and it has options to turn on/off the receiver. I may look at the receivers tonight to see if I can set them to turn off when idle. If so, I just need to add the command to turn on the receiver and it should work for me.

Garry, I know you have yours set up similar to mine, do you have any insite on this?

 

[chesh]

I'm just posting this as a follow up to my issue in post #337. I found last night that if I pause the LiveTV for 2-3 seconds after switching from one HD-PVR channel to another hosted by the HD-PVR the stream will sync and have a 1-5 jitter rating. Anyone else seen this behavior? I don't have this issue when changing between any of the channels on the HVR-1600 and also don't have the issue when I tune from a channel on the HVR-1600 to a channel on the HD-PVR. Just when switching between channels that HD-PVR tunes. It's obviously something to do with the timeshift buffer, but I just don't get why it started happening. Thanks for any insight guys!

 

[WileECoyote]

I'm just posting this as a follow up to my issue in post #337. I found last night that if I pause the LiveTV for 2-3 seconds after switching from one HD-PVR channel to another hosted by the HD-PVR the stream will sync and have a 1-5 jitter rating. Anyone else seen this behavior? I don't have this issue when changing between any of the channels on the HVR-1600 and also don't have the issue when I tune from a channel on the HVR-1600 to a channel on the HD-PVR. Just when switching between channels that HD-PVR tunes. It's obviously something to do with the timeshift buffer, but I just don't get why it started happening. Thanks for any insight guys!

Have your Codec's changed? Does your CPU usage go up when it starts to jitter? Has anything changed with the drives? Are your recording & timeshift buffers on the same drive? (some say that is taboo)

 

[chesh]

Well, ArcSoft Video Decoder is still taking over my system. I can select other codecs to be used, but when the graph is built, it disregards them and just uses the ArcSoft one. Oh well, the codec seems to be working well now. My CPU usage stays minimal as I'm using a Q6600 QuadCore. Nothing has changed with the drives, and I've tried cleaning out both the recordings and timeshift folders, so the drive is essentially empty. I am doing the recording and timeshift folders on the same drive, but it's a SATA2 1TB drive. Haven't had any issues timeshifting with the other card. It's almost like when you try to watch a youtube video and it tries to keep on playing even though it's only buffered 1 sec ahead of where it's playing at and you get that jitter. I get 15-20 frames a sec, but it's affected by how much is already buffered as to what framerate it will display. Hence, if I pause for 2 secs or so, the jitter is gone and the video is in sync. Do you use 2 separate drives for your timeshift and recordings? All I got in this computer at the moment is a 250gb HD that is the OS and a 1TB that is the buffer/recordings. Should I move the HD-PVRs timeshift to the OS drive?

I did purchase this card today in order to do HDMI/5.1 sound thru a single cable and maybe up the processing power of the vid card at the same time. Don't think this will help this issue, but it might. Hell, the card was cheap and is slightly better then the card I have.

 

[ixian]

You should try making a Ramdisk for the Timeshift buffer. Most of my timeshifting issues disappeared after I did that.

The how to is in the manual: TV-Server/UserGuides/Ramdisk - MediaPortal Manual Documentation

I use RRamdisk with Vista, set it to 2gb, 200mb files, 10 files. I get about 20 minutes of timeshifting this way, if you want more, add more ram and make a bigger ramdisk

 

[garry]

I was looking at this last night. I use the IR Server Suite with an external program "directv.exe" to send signals via serial and it has options to turn on/off the receiver. I may look at the receivers tonight to see if I can set them to turn off when idle. If so, I just need to add the command to turn on the receiver and it should work for me.

Garry, I know you have yours set up similar to mine, do you have any insite on this?

I never turn my DirecTV STBs off since they consume about the same amount of current when "off" and take a long time to start back up.

 

[ixian]

I was looking at this last night. I use the IR Server Suite with an external program "directv.exe" to send signals via serial and it has options to turn on/off the receiver. I may look at the receivers tonight to see if I can set them to turn off when idle. If so, I just need to add the command to turn on the receiver and it should work for me.

Garry, I know you have yours set up similar to mine, do you have any insite on this?

I'll look at IRSuite today WileE. Off the top of your head do you know if it can pass-through commands to an external blaster?

 

[chesh]

How much system RAM do you have in your computer ixian?

 

[ixian]

I was looking at this last night. I use the IR Server Suite with an external program "directv.exe" to send signals via serial and it has options to turn on/off the receiver. I may look at the receivers tonight to see if I can set them to turn off when idle. If so, I just need to add the command to turn on the receiver and it should work for me.

Garry, I know you have yours set up similar to mine, do you have any insite on this?

I was looking at this last night. I use the IR Server Suite with an external program "directv.exe" to send signals via serial and it has options to turn on/off the receiver. I may look at the receivers tonight to see if I can set them to turn off when idle. If so, I just need to add the command to turn on the receiver and it should work for me.

Garry, I know you have yours set up similar to mine, do you have any insite on this?

I never turn my DirecTV STBs off since they consume about the same amount of current when "off" and take a long time to start back up.

The problem we're, or at least some of us, are having isn't that they are turned off and on, but they go in to a sort of sleep, or limbo, mode. In Dish's case you get a little message on the screen that says press select to view TV, doing so wakes it back up. It's basically a low power screen saver.

The problem is passing channel-change commands on to the blaster doesn't wake it, only the select key. Stupid design but what can you do, apparently a few other STB's are the same way.