New DVB subtitle filter (TsReader based) (2 Viewers)

[seco]

This is my Mediaportal.xml MyTV section:

<section name="mytv">
<entry name="dvbsubtitles">yes</entry>
<entry name="deinterlace">3</entry>
<entry name="autoturnontv">no</entry>
<entry name="autoturnontimeshifting">no</entry>
<entry name="byindex">yes</entry>
<entry name="showchannelnumber">no</entry>
<entry name="channelnumbermaxlength">3</entry>
<entry name="defaultar">stretch</entry>
<entry name="audiocodec">ffdshow Audio Decoder</entry>
<entry name="videocodec">NVIDIA Video Decoder</entry>
<entry name="h264videocodec">CoreAVC Video Decoder</entry>
<entry name="audiorenderer">Default DirectSound Device</entry>
<entry name="allowarnormal">yes</entry>
<entry name="allowaroriginal">yes</entry>
<entry name="allowarstretch">yes</entry>
<entry name="allowarzoom">yes</entry>
<entry name="allowarzoom149">yes</entry>
<entry name="allowarletterbox">no</entry>
<entry name="allowarpanscan">no</entry>
<entry name="automaticbacktoback">no</entry>
<entry name="filter0">ffdshow raw video filter</entry>
<entry name="teletextHidden">no</entry>
<entry name="teletextTransparent">no</entry>
<entry name="teletextRemember">yes</entry>
<entry name="nonsquare">yes</entry>
<entry name="dx9filteringmode">Gaussian Quad Filtering</entry>
<entry name="channel">YLE Extra</entry>
<entry name="group">All Channels</entry>
<entry name="usefilter0">yes</entry>
<entry name="filter1">undefined</entry>
<entry name="tvon">no</entry>
</section>

Should there be a log entry in DVBSub.log when Mediaportal is started? As I previously posted, there isn't.

 

[tourettes]

This is my Mediaportal.xml MyTV section:

<section name="mytv">
<entry name="dvbsubtitles">yes</entry>

Should there be a log entry in DVBSub.log when Mediaportal is started? As I previously posted, there isn't.

Mediaportal xml looks ok. DVBSub.log should contain a at least following string when the mytv is used, otherwise it means that the subtitle filter wasn't even loaded.


16-09-2007 20:13:09 -------------- MediaPortal DVBSub2.ax version 6 ----------------

 

[seco]

Umm, I need to confirm this:

Is TVE required to get this work or should it work without it?

 

[Seidelin]

Umm, I need to confirm this:

Is TVE required to get this work or should it work without it?

TVE3 is a requirement for DVB subtitles.

Regards
Seidelin

 

[D-Iivil]

Still no subs :|

I don't understand what I am doing wrong.

So far I have done:

- fresh clean install of RC2 version of MediaPortal
- downloaded this: http://day2.no-ip.org/TsReader_DVBSub2_v6.zip
- did what instructions tells at the first page of this thread
- downloaded & installed SVN 15813
- unregistered TsReader.ax & DVBSub2.ax I downloaded earlier
- registered TsReader.ax & DVBSub2.ax
- modified MediaPortal.xml located at c:\ProgramData\Team Mediaportal\Mediaporta\
- created c:\useTsReader.txt

Still no subs with YLE channels :-(

Edit: there's one thing I'm not sure about. I have Vista Ultimate 32 bit and I downloaded Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 SP1 Redistributable Package (x86) as said in first post. After I've downloaded installer and ran it from my HDD it starts to install and then comes "configuring windows installer" and there's status bar increasing. After the status bar has finished, the installer just goes away without saying if the installation was compeleted or not. So I'm not sure if I have C++ Package correctly installed. Any idea how to check this?

I'm not sure if the Visual C++ 2005 update is needed on Vista, sorry. Could you post the Mediaportal and DVBSub log files?

Sure I can. Just tell me where I can find those logs? I looked under MediaPortal's folder and found another folder called "log", but it only included files called "dvb.log" and "vmr9.log".

1) C:\DVBSub2.log
2) MediaPortal install directory \Logs\MediaPortal.log

Okay, here is my DVBSub2.log

15-09-2007 21:31:42 DllMain - called
15-09-2007 21:31:42 DllRegisterServer - called
15-09-2007 21:31:42   AMovieDllRegisterServer2 returned 0
15-09-2007 21:31:44 DllMain - called
16-09-2007 18:51:03 DllMain - called
16-09-2007 18:51:03 DllUnregisterServer - called
16-09-2007 18:51:03   AMovieDllRegisterServer2 returned 0
16-09-2007 18:51:04 DllMain - called
16-09-2007 18:51:26 DllMain - called
16-09-2007 18:51:26 DllRegisterServer - called
16-09-2007 18:51:26   AMovieDllRegisterServer2 returned 0
16-09-2007 18:51:26 DllMain - called

MediaPortal.log seems quite long. Any particular part you want to see in there? I searched for dvbsub* but I found nothing on that log.

 

[ziphnor]

Umm, I need to confirm this:
Is TVE required to get this work or should it work without it?

In case you are wondering why this is the case:
Its because the teletext and bitmap subtitles are stored as streams in the original transport stream separate from the video/audio. The old 'engine' doesnt support recording/timeshifting in transport stream format, so the subtitle information is lost.

If we wanted to add support to the old engine we would either have to add .ts recording or store subtitles in some other way.

 

[seco]

Okay, thanks guys! I will install TVE3 and test DVB subtitles when I have more time.

 

[tourettes]

MediaPortal.log seems quite long. Any particular part you want to see in there? I searched for dvbsub* but I found nothing on that log.

It should have something like:

2007-09-17 19:58:08.515625 [Info.][MPMain]: added filterefault DirectSound Device to graph
2007-09-17 19:58:08.531250 [Info.][MPMain]: setAsReferenceClock sync source No DX Error
2007-09-17 19:58:08.531250 [Info.][MPMain]: added filter:MediaPortal DVBSub2 to graph
2007-09-17 19:58:08.531250 [Debug][MPMain]: SubtitleRenderer: CreateFilter success: True & True
2007-09-17 19:58:08.531250 [Debug][MPMain]: Is subtitle fitler null? False
2007-09-17 19:58:08.546875 [Info.][MPMain]: TSReaderPlayer:add TsReader to graph


btw. are you using tve3(tv engine 3)? as it's required for the subtitle support.

 

[SciDoctor]

I had a recent problem with VISTA.

Installed RC2 and the default folder of

C:\ProgramData\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal

was used which was different to the one used for RC1.

Then installed an SVN on the 15th and the above folder changed to

C:\Program Files\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal again.

Had me scratching my head for a while as to why the subs were not working, had to chase down which was the actual folder MP was using with which version and SVN.!!!

MP RC2+SVN on VISTA seems to be using both directories atm which is a nightmare, still haven't got my KB working correctly yet which is another effect.

 

[D-Iivil]

MediaPortal.log seems quite long. Any particular part you want to see in there? I searched for dvbsub* but I found nothing on that log.

It should have something like:

2007-09-17 19:58:08.515625 [Info.][MPMain]: added filterefault DirectSound Device to graph
2007-09-17 19:58:08.531250 [Info.][MPMain]: setAsReferenceClock sync source No DX Error
2007-09-17 19:58:08.531250 [Info.][MPMain]: added filter:MediaPortal DVBSub2 to graph
2007-09-17 19:58:08.531250 [Debug][MPMain]: SubtitleRenderer: CreateFilter success: True & True
2007-09-17 19:58:08.531250 [Debug][MPMain]: Is subtitle fitler null? False
2007-09-17 19:58:08.546875 [Info.][MPMain]: TSReaderPlayer:add TsReader to graph


btw. are you using tve3(tv engine 3)? as it's required for the subtitle support.

Okay, I think my problem is solved. I wasn't using tve3 because I didn't know it was required. I'm trying to install it and see what happens.