No mpeg2-video-playing on clients (1 Viewer)

[josu]

Same problem in SVN 12708 as in SVN 12704 :-(

If I open the VideoDatabaseV5.db3 Database, and change the stoptime entry in the resume table from 0 to 1 for example,
than I can play the mpeg file with out any problems.

hello, Peter Pan

I have tried it, but there is no positive effect:sorry:

I think, there are problems with the PTS (Presentation Time Stamp) or DTS (Display Time Stamp) by the transcoding from TS (transport-stream) to PS (program-stream).

Other players (power-dvd, mediaplayer) have no problems on the same w2k-machine


Important: the xp-machines seems to play the most files now, but I have problems with my w2k-clients (with patches) !!


Edit: The xp-machines play not all files, too. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:sorry:


Edit: mpeg2 from ripped DVDs are playable !

 

[joboehl]

Same problem in SVN 12708 as in SVN 12704 :-(

If I open the VideoDatabaseV5.db3 Database, and change the stoptime entry in the resume table from 0 to 1 for example,
than I can play the mpeg file with out any problems.

PeterPan,

Are you talking about the Old TVEngine or the new one?

AFAIK, the TVServer doesn't use the VideoDatabaseV5.db3 DB. Everything is inside SQL Server.

 

[Peter Pan]

PeterPan,

Are you talking about the Old TVEngine or the new one?

AFAIK, the TVServer doesn't use the VideoDatabaseV5.db3 DB. Everything is inside SQL Server.

I am talking about the new TVengine3, but
the player inside MP reads the startposition from the VideoDatabaseV5.db3 DB.

 

[elliottmc]

Hi,

With SVN 12736 (both main program and tvengine - freshly installed 0.2.2 + svn and then tv server), I see the same problem. I have a server with DVB card, and I can watch TV fine on the server. When I try to do the same on the client, no video or audio plays.

I've posted my system specs a number of times, so I won't bore you with them again (unless you want them) but this seems to be pretty consistent in the mediaportal log.


2007-01-25 12:33:10.281250 [Info.][MPMain]: tvhome:startplay
2007-01-25 12:33:10.281250 [Info.][MPMain]: tvhome:startplay:rtsp://server/stream1
2007-01-25 12:33:10.281250 [Info.][MPMain]: ProcessWindows exceptionystem.ArgumentOutOfRangeException: Index and length must refer to a location within the string.
Parameter name: length
at System.String.InternalSubStringWithChecks(Int32 startIndex, Int32 length, Boolean fAlwaysCopy)
at MediaPortal.Player.g_Player.Play(String strFile, MediaType type)
at TvPlugin.TVHome.StartPlay()
at TvPlugin.TVHome.Process()
at MediaPortal.GUI.Library.GUIWindowManager.ProcessWindows()


Clearly on this occasion I was trying to start a stream from the server, having set TV running on the server to confirm that all was well.

I can access the stream perfectly with VLC, which would appear to rule out SQL and firewall problems.

I tried re-applying the main mediaportal SVN in case of any differences in mpeg codecs being unregistered, and it made no difference. The fact that VLC is able to play the stream would also point against this being the problems.

I hope this is useful. The new TVEngine is looking really nice right now. We've got to expect glitches with software in development, and thanks very much to Frodo and the team for all their hard work.

Mark

 

[elliottmc]

As an additional data point, if I copy a dvr-ms recording from my main HTPC (running the "old" TV engine) to a video folder which is accessible from the client computer which won't play live TV or TV streams, then this recording plays fine.

I am under the impression that dvr-ms recorded on a DVB card is basically mpeg2, and should be the same format of video as the tvserver is producing.

Incidentally, with this latest SVN, the MediaPortal Setup crashed with an unhandled exception every time I click on the okay button to quit it. This only seems to be happening on the client computer, so maybe it is a problem with my system (time for a reinstall?).

Bearing in mind how long this will take me, if anyone else is seeing the same thing, could you please let me know?

Thanks,

Mark



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[elliottmc]

With SVN 12745, live TV plays fine.

Playback of recordings seems very jerky, but this is only one recording. I can't test fast forward/rewind at the moment, since I can't enable my remote (didn't do it in the wizard when I installed, and the problem in my previous post is stopping me going into setup and enabling it - it crashes before saving this change).

I am running through the wizard within mediaportal, but it want me to configure my TV card. I guess ultimately this will be removed or changed to use the TV server.

Anyway, it's great that the live TV issue appears to be sorted, and thanks very much Frodo.

As this wasn't actually the mpeg2 bug in the title of the thread, it seems a bit presumptuous of me to label it as fixed.

Mark

 

[elliottmc]

With regard to the crashing on exiting the MediaPortal Setup, this is related to the new option for CD/DVD speed. Information can be found here:

https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/showthread.php?t=15907

Mark