initial support for Hauppuage HD-PVR (1 Viewer)

[dyrvig]

hi sjeffrey

I will try that do you have any recomendations for ramdisk under vista an size .I have tryed the DPC and seems to be ok
i supose the ramdisk is on the server for timeshift (have seperate disk just for that now)and not for the client

thanks
Dyrvig

Hi guys

is there a way to check if the problem with stuttering is in the stream from the server or it is the tsreader/client that has the problem

thanks
dyrvig

 

[sjeffrey]

hi sjeffrey

I will try that do you have any recomendations for ramdisk under vista an size .I have tryed the DPC and seems to be ok
i supose the ramdisk is on the server for timeshift (have seperate disk just for that now)and not for the client

thanks
Dyrvig

I just follow instructions from the wiki
TV-Server/UserGuides/Ramdisk - MediaPortal Manual Documentation
I used RRamDisk

 

[DreadFury]

@DreadFury,
Not to beat a dead horse, but you probably should use one of your higher-end machines as the server. If the server is lacking, then all your clients will exibit the same behavior....

The server is actually the best running machine (fewest stuttering problems), although not the beefiests per-se.

It has a dualcore AMD running at 2.85GHZ, 4GB 1066 RAM, 5 disk RAID5 (4tb), Nvidia 9600GT with 1GB VRAM.

the only computer I have with better specs is my gaming rig, and all it has on the server is a slightly faster Quad CPU and an Nvidia 9800GTX 1GB card.

My gaming rig gets a 6.5 base score in Vista (The Server gets a 5.7), it has smoked absolutely everything I have thrown at it (EXCEPT MePo), but I definitely am not going to make it the server, that's why I have the actual server


-sjeffrey

Yes, if I pause and restart the video, it plays fine....for maybe as long as 30 seconds, once the stuttering starts, it wont give and just gets worse and worse until my fps finally hit single digits.


All I know is that if MePo need such a powerhouse to play simple video files, there is some serious optimization needed in the player.
There is no reason such beefy computers should struggle so much to play such undemanding files. =/

 

[garry]

@DreadFury,
Not to beat a dead horse, but you probably should use one of your higher-end machines as the server. If the server is lacking, then all your clients will exibit the same behavior....

The server is actually the best running machine (fewest stuttering problems), although not the beefiests per-se.

It has a dualcore AMD running at 2.85GHZ, 4GB 1066 RAM, 5 disk RAID5 (4tb), Nvidia 9600GT with 1GB VRAM.

the only computer I have with better specs is my gaming rig, and all it has on the server is a slightly faster Quad CPU and an Nvidia 9800GTX 1GB card.

My gaming rig gets a 6.5 base score in Vista (The Server gets a 5.7), it has smoked absolutely everything I have thrown at it (EXCEPT MePo), but I definitely am not going to make it the server, that's why I have the actual server


-sjeffrey

Yes, if I pause and restart the video, it plays fine....for maybe as long as 30 seconds, once the stuttering starts, it wont give and just gets worse and worse until my fps finally hit single digits.


All I know is that if MePo need such a powerhouse to play simple video files, there is some serious optimization needed in the player.
There is no reason such beefy computers should struggle so much to play such undemanding files. =/

Are your recording/timeshifting to the raid5 array? That could be your problem. Raid5 write performance is generally not good, especially without a caching controller.

 

[DreadFury]

Are your recording/timeshifting to the raid5 array? That could be your problem. Raid5 write performance is generally not good, especially without a caching controller.

I have a good hardware controller with excellent caching, as well as high diskcache on each drive, I've even tried with readyboost for the hell of it.
However I already tried changing the timeshifting folder to a non-raid disk to see if there was a difference, which I saw no difference for better or worse.

Like i said earlier too, I have even taken recordings and placed them on the local hard drive of the client PC's and get the same results.

I see no difference in live/recorded/local/network/wireless/wired >_<

 

[goomba516]

Is anyone using the microsoft remote control with blaster, If so have you been able to get the second port to fire. For some reason no matter what i do i cant get the second port to fire only the first one.
Thanks

 

[DreadFury]

Is anyone using the microsoft remote control with blaster, If so have you been able to get the second port to fire. For some reason no matter what i do i cant get the second port to fire only the first one.
Thanks

Are you using IR Server Suite?

Using IRSS and the blaster plugin for the tv server makes it pretty easy to map to both ports.

 

[goomba516]

That but me being the genius i am only had 1 IR and was just moving it from port to port to make sure it works. never even thought i needed to have them both pluged in at same time to make both active.Thanks for the help though.
One question with anyone with 4therecord what did you find the best way to map the channels to MP

 

[antonehenry]

I just wanted to share my success. I have been working on this for a long time, now I seem to have a pretty stable install of the hd-pvr working with channel changing through firewire.

working with the myTV part of mediaportal is still a little slow and kinda buggy, but it's the best i've gotten so far. i'm hoping i will easily be able to walk away and come back and have a flawlessly working DVR from now on. I might even purchase a second hd pvr if this gets even more stable.

thanks a lot everyones that keep the discussion alive and everyone going. weee.

 

[robgue]

Hi. I'm new to using the tv server part of MePo. I just got a hd pvr and wanted to use it inside MePo. I'm a little confused and have some questions though.

Do I need to use the tvserver version that is on the 1st page of this thread? Right now I'm using the new alpha version of MePo with the tv server version it installs.

Is there a tutorial on how to set up this up? I've looked in the wiki and searched. I really only find help for dvb cards,etc.
I see the card in the tv server config but can't scan channels. Not sure what options to choose. It only shows a cable and antenna option. I know it's analogue so you can't really scan channels but can I at least get a live feed somehow?

Is there some special setting I need to set in TME? Should I not use optical audio? vbr?cbr? or TME at all?

I've read through about 40 pages of this thread but I'm still confused. Im on a fresh install of win xp. Using coreavc/cuda. I've got the rest of MePo running great. Thank you for your help.