Resume Point for DVR-MS Files (1 Viewer)

[CyberSimian]

I am using MP 1.9.0 pre, with the "aMPed" skin, on 32-bit Vista.

Does MP remember the resume point for partially-watched DVR-MS files residing in the "Videos" section? I have a lot of DVR-MS files inherited from Windows Media Center, and I have placed these in a folder tree in the "Videos" section. It always annoyed me that WMC never remembered the resume point for files in the "Videos" section, and I was hoping that MP would offer this capability. I have created an XML file for each DVR-MS file (derived from the meta data contained within the DVR-MS file), but MP still will not retain the resume point. The context menu also lacks the option to create bookmarks.

In contrast, recorded-TV files created using MP and moved from the "Recorded TV" folder to the "Videos" section do retain their resume point, and the context menu has the "Bookmarks" option.

This thread (from 2008) seems to imply that MP should retain the resume point:
https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/posts/246513/

Is there some setting that I have not set correctly? Thanks for any info.

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[CyberSimian]

but MP still will not retain the resume point.

I have not found any way to persuade MP to retain the resume point for DVR-MS files, so I have decided to convert them all to TS files. I already had "VideoReDo", which I can use to perform this conversion.

On my Dell XPS 420 HTPC (Intel Q6600 quad-core processor), reading and writing to the same Western Digital 2TB SATA green drive, it takes approximately 1 minute per gigabyte to convert DVR-MS to TS (so the nearly-full 2TB drive will take about 30 hours to convert in total). Then I have to start on my collection of USB disks...

One problem: "VideoReDo" cannot convert audio-only DVR-MS files, so my library of radio recordings will have to stay as DVR-MS files (at least, for the moment).

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[breese]

While it has been a while sense I played with MP1, have you tried the stock installed skin?
It may be that the skin is the issue.

Also, have you tried MP2? I have tested this function in MP2 and had started and stopped multiple movies. Each asked me if I wanted to restart from start or resume

 

[regeszter]

It seems it is a bug. Can you upload/share me a small DVR-MS file to test it locally?

 

[CyberSimian]

While it has been a while since I played with MP1, have you tried the stock installed skin? It may be that the skin is the issue.

I have just tried "DefaultWide", but it gave the same result (resume point not retained).

Also, have you tried MP2? I have tested this function in MP2 and had started and stopped multiple movies. Each asked me if I wanted to restart from start or resume

When I first started using an HTPC (in 2009, using WMC), I was very undisciplined about installing other software, with the result that the HTPC did not perform reliably. A re-install of Vista and installing almost nothing else, resulted in good reliability (but not perfect).

MP is not WMC of course, but I am a bit leery about installing a completely-new version of MP on my "production" system that is currently working well. Unfortunately, at the moment I don't have a spare partition that I could use for testing MP2 by itself.

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It seems it is a bug. Can you upload/share me a small DVR-MS file to test it locally?

I have attached a zip file containing a short DVR-MS file (1 min 17 sec duration, 26MB size). Thanks for taking a look.

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[regeszter]

Please update your MP to 1.9 Final and try the attached binary. Make a bakcup before overwrite the original dll!

 

[CyberSimian]

Please update your MP to 1.9 Final

MP 1.9.0 final? When did that happen? Oh, I see, at 12:54 today!

and try the attached binary. Make a backup before overwrite the original dll!

Thank you. I have downloaded the files and will install them tomorrow. I will post back with the outcome.

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[CyberSimian]

Please update your MP to 1.9 Final and try the attached binary.

I tried updating 1.9.0 pre with 1.9.0 final, but it all went horribly wrong. It failed partway through, and when I tried again, it then claimed that there were incompatible versions of something.

Fortunately, I had created an image of my C: drive before starting the install, so I restored that and all is back to normal. But I don't think that I will try an update install again -- it seems too finicky. I think that I will do a fresh install on a copy of Vista that has never had MP installed on it previously, but I need to free-up a partition first, so that I can have 1.9.0 pre and 1.9.0 final in different partitions.

It is going to be several days before I can try the fix for DVR-MS files; sorry about that.

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[regeszter]

I tried updating 1.9.0 pre with 1.9.0 final, but it all went horribly wrong.

Do you have any log?

 

[CyberSimian]

Do you have any log?

No, I overwrote the failed installation when I restored the drive image. To be honest, I think that it was probably my fault that it failed, and it would not be sensible for you or another MP developer to spend any time looking at it.

Computers are wonderfully versatile tools, but that means that there is plenty of scope for doing things in the wrong order, or in the wrong circumstances, or making the wrong selections, or...

Hopefully I will get it right next time!

-- from CyberSimian in the UK