Problem changing between dif. TV-cards (1 Viewer)

[tompa]

Thanks guys for your replays!

I will look in to this tonight, but here is a quick reflection.

I'm having on of my clients next to the server so I can watch sever behaviours, and it looks like its doing "the costly channel changes" on my setup (within the same MUX/TV-card). The timeshift is stopped and started over again, and this was not the behaviour earlier..

You are doing something wrong?!
My channel-switching durations (with last SVNs - self-compiled):

on same transponder: ~1 second
on other transponder: 2-3 seconds
on other tvcard: 5-7 seconds

Kuehnch, are you running multiseat?

 

[gibman]

tompa
Maybe in your case (newCardId is equal _card.Id), so it will call the gplayer.stop method, which is only supposed to happen in the event of a change in DVB device.

joboehl:
Logging added, something like this;

//Start timeshifting the new tv channel
      TvServer server = new TvServer();
      VirtualCard card;
      bool _return = false;

      User user = new User();
      
      TvBusinessLayer layer = new TvBusinessLayer();
      int newCardId = -1;
      foreach (Card c in layer.Cards)
      {
          foreach (ChannelMap map in c.ReferringChannelMap())
          {
              if (map.IdChannel == channel.IdChannel)
              {
                 newCardId = c.IdCard;
                  break;
              }
          }
          if (newCardId > -1) break;
      }
      if (newCardId != _card.Id && newCardId > -1) 
      {
            g_Player.Stop();
            MediaPortal.GUI.Library.Log.Info("new DVB device detected - new card id=" + Convert.toString(newCardId) + " old card id=" + Convert.toString(card.Id));
       }
       else
       {
            MediaPortal.GUI.Library.Log.Info("same DVB device detected.");
       }

 

[tompa]

@tompa
Maybe in your case (newCardId is equal _card.Id), so it will call the gplayer.stop method, which is only supposed to happen in the event of a change in DVB device.

How could I check this? Something changeable in database?

 

[kuehnch]

Kuehnch, are you running multiseat?

Yes.

 

[tompa]

New logs

Hi!
Some problem again. Same senario (apart from 3 below) and SVN14521.
Seems to behave unstable with my setup.

2. ...
3. Change to a channel on another MUX (second card) - first failed then at second try Ok.
4. ...

 

[gibman]

When looking in the client's mediaportal.log I can see that.

1) Initial channel change (SVT1). Result ok.
2) Next channel change (SVT2).Result ok.
3) Next channel change (TV4) on new DVB device. Result NOT ok.

The IF statement below is apparently false, so g_Player.Stop() is not called.
if (newCardId != _card.Id && newCardId > -1) g_Player.Stop();

With some additional logging, we might figure it out.

/Gibman

 

[joboehl]

Please, those having problems with channel changing, try using SVN14582 or greater when it becomes available later today.

It's not a fix, just additional logging to try to find what's happening.

Also add if you are using single-seat or multiseat.

 

[tompa]

I will test that when its available, and add new logs if necessary.

Thanks for your time guys!!

 

[gibman]

This might fix your problem Tompa.

It's a more safe and faster way to get the new card id than it was before.

/Gibman

 

[tompa]

Tried SVN14582 - Muliseat
Senario as befor, and here are the logs.

gibman
I will test your patch next! I will only switch TVPlugin.dll right?
Thanks!