"Play Recording From Beginning" - not working correctly (1 Viewer)

[garry]

MediaPortal Version: 3/8/2007 SVN of MP & TV3
MediaPortal Skin: BuueTwo
Windows Version: Windows 2003 R2
CPU Type: Pentium D 805
HDD: 160GB SATA
Memory: 2GB DDR2
Motherboard: Dell DXP051
Motherboard Chipset:
Motherboard Bios: A05
Video Card: GeForce 7300LE
Video Card Driver: 91.47_forceware_winxp2k_english_whql.exe
Sound Card: onboard
Sound Card AC3:
Sound Card Driver:
1. TV Card: PVR-500
1. TV Card Type: analog
1. TV Card Driver: latest
MPEG2 Video Codec: PureVideo
MPEG2 Audio Codec: PureVideo
Satelite/CableTV Provider: DirecTV
Remote: MCE
TV: old Sony 32" CR
TV - HTPC Connection: s-video


If I'm watching a channel using one tuner and have another tuner in the middle of a scheduled recording then change to the channel that is being recorded selecting "Play Recording From Beginning" I end up at the beginning of the timeshift buffer for the first tuner. This makes it impossible to watch a recording in progress from the beginning.

 

[ASiDiE]

Currently... the last I knew... this was work in progress.

 

[garry]

Excellent, please let me know if there is anything I can do to help! I'm a c# developer but have not had much time to contirbute to MP other than some plugin work.

 

[mdsflyer]

I'm just checking in that this isn't just my system. My problem is if i am recording a channel (i use mpg rather than ts) and the recording is say half way through i have no way of watching. Neither the play recording from live point nor the play recording from beginning options work for me. I am able to play the recording once it is finished. If i discover i'm the only one with this issue then obviously i've got some digging to do but from what i read above it seems like this is an area which is being worked on.

If anyone can shed some light i'd be grateful

Cheers
m

 

[gemx]

This is really a bug.
I am looking into it at the momement

 

[gemx]

It occures only with mpeg recordings not with .ts recordings.
The problem is the tsfile source (async) filter.
Either MediaPlayerClassic nor Windows Media Player are able to play the file while being recorded -> Message: "File is in use".
VLC plays fine.
So no problem with MP itself.
Checking the microsoft knowledge base

 

[gemx]

Nothing on the microsoft sites BUT
replaying the file via the tsfilesource filter works even during playback
So we just have to change the method where the graph is built to use TSFileSource instead of "File Source (async.)"

 

[The_Stig]

Hi gemx,

thats sounds nice. Thanks for your work!

Regards,

The Stig (aka paloema)

 

[gemx]

Ok. Found the bug
TSFileSource is already used for mpeg files but the CheckMpgFile() method of the PlayerFactory class raises an exception because it can't access the file. So it returns "false" which means that it is not a valid mpeg file.
So the playerfactory creates a Videoplayer which uses the microsoft file source which can't replay the file.

 

[gemx]

Alright, fixed it
It should be working in the actual snapshot rev. 13518
Please provide some feedback if it's really working as desired.
Thanks.