Movie player decoders controlled by TV section decoders (1 Viewer)

[eagleonegr]

Changing video and audio decoder settings is only possible in Television part of the mediaportal setup. These settings also control movie playback. This is a bug since there is a separate section in Movies to select different decoders. In the Movies section movie player decoder settings are available but have no effect and are not saved in mediaportal.xml. All decoders are controlled by the Television part of the setup somehow.

I confirmed this during playback in the submitted run by using ffdshow for TV and cyberlink for movies section. Playing back a media file ffdshow is used (ffdshow icon appears in systray) although in mediaportal setup movies section cyberlink was selected. If I had selected cyberlink in TV section then it would also be used for media playback.

In the submitted error.log it states that ffdshow is not found then uses it anyway.

This is probably hardcoded since video and audio decoder settings are not saved for the movies section in mediaportal.xml. Decoder settings are saved only for the TV section in mediaportal.xml.


I am using build 15649.



TV-Server Version:
MediaPortal Version: 230RC1SVN15649
MediaPortal Skin: Bluetwo
Windows Version: XPSP2
CPU Type: P4935D
HDD: WD 500GB
Memory: 1024mb DDR2
Motherboard: ASUS p5ld2 Dlx
Motherboard Chipset: Intel 945
Motherboard Bios: AMI
Video Card: ATI HD2400 pro
Video Card Driver: cat 7.8
Sound Card: realtek
Sound Card AC3:
Sound Card Driver:
1. TV Card: Hauppauge HVR1100
1. TV Card Type: HVR1100
1. TV Card Driver: 33b
2. TV Card:
2. TV Card Type:
2. TV Card Driver:
3. TV Card:
3. TV Card Type:
3. TV Card Driver:
4. TV Card:
4. TV Card Type:
4. TV Card Driver:
MPEG2 Video Codec: Cyberlink 7 2911
MPEG2 Audio Codec: Cyberlink 7 2911
Satelite/CableTV Provider:
HTPC Case: Antec overture modded
Cooling: Zalman 7700
Power Supply: Antec 380
Remote: MCE remote
TV: PAnasonic plasma 42
TV - HTPC Connection: Sub-d

 

[ronilse]

Hi,
Are you talking about TV recordings played as movie?

Regards
Roy

 

[eagleonegr]

Thats was quick!

I am referring to simple media files such as .mpg files (mpeg2). Mediaportal is not using movie player settings but only TV player settings.

Thanks
Michael

 

[ronilse]

Hi,
In MP Setup (Configuration) -> General -> Bug level & set it to debug & test again with TV & a mpg file & attach you log again.

The only reason for why it is not used could be a problem with the codecs like this from your log, test with MPA & MPV instead

2007-08-28 12:20:37.890625 [ERROR][MPMain]: failed:unable to add filter:ffdshow Video Decoder to graph
2007-08-28 12:20:37.890625 [ERROR][MPMain]: failed filter:ffdshow Video Decoder not found

Regards
Roy

 

[eagleonegr]

I removed ffdshow from setup replaced with MPV MPA.

Not shown in logs I think:

TV player setup:

Video Mpeg2 MPV
Audio MPA

Movie player setup

Video mpeg2 Cyberlink
Audio MPA

It is using the TV player setup to play the mpeg file instead of the movie player setup. This confirmed by the graphics card not used for acceleration.

The mpeg file is a simple Mpeg2 program stream video+audio only.

I am using the TV recordings folder for convenience dont let this throw you off. The mpeg file is not a recording.

All codecs work normally via graphedit.

TV-Server Version:
MediaPortal Version: 230RC1SVN15649
MediaPortal Skin: Bluetwo
Windows Version: XPSP2
CPU Type: P4935D
HDD: WD 500GB
Memory: 1024mb DDR2
Motherboard: ASUS p5ld2 Dlx
Motherboard Chipset: Intel 945
Motherboard Bios: AMI
Video Card: ATI HD2400 pro
Video Card Driver: cat 7.8
Sound Card: realtek
Sound Card AC3:
Sound Card Driver:
1. TV Card: Hauppauge HVR1100
1. TV Card Type: HVR1100
1. TV Card Driver: 33b
2. TV Card:
2. TV Card Type:
2. TV Card Driver:
3. TV Card:
3. TV Card Type:
3. TV Card Driver:
4. TV Card:
4. TV Card Type:
4. TV Card Driver:
MPEG2 Video Codec: Cyberlink 7 2911
MPEG2 Audio Codec: Cyberlink 7 2911
Satelite/CableTV Provider:
HTPC Case: Antec overture modded
Cooling: Zalman 7700
Power Supply: Antec 380
Remote: MCE remote
TV: PAnasonic plasma 42
TV - HTPC Connection: Sub-d

Thanks
Michael

 

[ronilse]

Hi,
If it detects a TV recording (stream whatever) it will use codecs for TV, if you have a .mpg after a trans-coding it will use the Movie codecs atleast thats what happens here when i test this & thats how MP it supposed to work, lets see if anyone else have this or can see anything wrong.

Regards
Roy

 

[eagleonegr]

Hi,
If it detects a TV recording (stream whatever) it will use codecs for TV, if you have a .mpg after a trans-coding it will use the Movie codecs atleast thats what happens here when i test this & thats how MP it supposed to work, lets see if anyone else have this or can see anything wrong.

Regards
Roy

Update:

Here is the deal. I installed Mediaportal with latest SVN (31.08) on another PC totally different. I accessed the same files and the same thing happened. The only common part in the chain was tsfilesource.ax which for some reason is enabled for mpegs in mediaportal.xml. What I did was manually change this entry from "yes" to "no" on mediaportal.xml section movieplayer. This is the corrected entry:

<entry name="useTsFileSourceForMpegs">no</entry>

Now the correct filters are used for each player as defined in their respective settings in MP configuration. I dont consider it fixed since mediaportal config has to be edited manually so please look into it. TSfilesource is still used if necessary by Mediaportal (unregistering it is not an option as I discovered) and is probably used to play .ms recordings.

I guess most users have the same filters selected on both TV and movie players so this is difficult to diagnose. May I suggest the Haali media splitter as a possible replacement or the other one you people have in development? I played around with TSfilesource in graphedit and it just doesnt work very well. When rendered connections are made but sometimes no image with no error message. In the registry (HKCU) its settings cannot be changed etc. etc.

Just make sure the replacement filter passes subtitle information. TSfilesource does not even though it has a setting for those (maybe limited to one kind) and Mediaportal certainly is not aware of them as evidenced in the mediaportal.log

Thanks again.
Michael

 

[peque]

I was having same problem here when I wanted to use different codecs for movies and for TV. I found this same "solution" yesterday night navigating into mediaportal.xml and trying and trying and trying. Searching the forum about "useTsFileSourceForMpegs" today to know more about this entry in the .xml, I found this post.

bye!

 

[eagleonegr]

I was having same problem here when I wanted to use different codecs for movies and for TV. I found this same "solution" yesterday night navigating into mediaportal.xml and trying and trying and trying. Searching the forum about "useTsFileSourceForMpegs" today to know more about this entry in the .xml, I found this post.

bye!

Thanks for the input. I hope it helps them if others report it too.

Problem also exists in 0230RC2. Also if for any reason the selected decoders crash on video player (not TV) the media player uses the decoders from TV section. There is no sense in having two different selections for TV and movies if they are not used.

In my case I needed a decoder with hardware acceleration for TV and a software one for the movies since I use subtitles and hardware acceleration is not used when displaying subtitles. Also hardware acceleration is useful when recording from TV since it takes load off the CPU to the video card.

 

[Arn01805]

Same problem over here. Some MPG movies don't have sound, when setting useTsFileSourceForMpegs to No, I have audio on my mpgs again. I found this on: https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/...tml?t=30189&highlight=useTsFileSourceForMpegs

Does this param enable/disable the new tsreader? Does this setting also change this setting for TV?