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mhoogenbosch

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    I'm going a bit insane because i cannot find a way to get my system to work. First of all, I know i'm in a bit of a gray area. That beeing said i cannot imagine it being of influence in my specific case (if mistaken please enlighten).

    I'm using a Asrock 3D vision 137B (Core i3 370 with 4GB ram, nvidia 425 and a ssd disk with two Anysee E30TC USB tunercards) which performs quite good.

    I'm using Argus as TV Service and when I play back with VLC player to a HD channel it runs very good, in fact i can watch two HD channels at the same time and the CPU doesn't go over 50% and sound / video is very clear and in sync. To be clear, this is 'watch channel' directly from the argus interface.

    When watching those same channels in MePo (just did a fresh install with 1.2.3) with the latest LAV codecs it stutters and i'm getting loads of discontinuty messages in my log files.
    Just to be clear, SD channels run just fine, on both tuners.

    I'm aware of the mediaportal audio render, the experimental tsreader.ax and dshowfilters, i've already tried all the latest versions and set the registery setting for the audiorender aswell (which is explained in that specific topic).

    Everything i do doesn't seem to fix of doesn't even come close to a fix. It only happens with HD television, regular 1080p movies also run fine. In the LAV codec i've enabled the hardware decoding, but have tried numberous of settings, none of them seem to have an affect.

    I've seen there are two topics regarding the anysee tuners, one where some DEV claims to have a SDK wheras the topic seems dead. The other is about compailing something from the GITHUB, i don't know nothing about compailing anything so that would be a bit hard for me.

    With my previous HTPC which was much slower HD television ran fine. I've even bought new hirschmann cables and amplifiers to exclude the signal strenght (eventhough it works fine with VLC directly from argus).

    Is there a way for me to get a pointer to what goes wrong with MePo (for as VLC with argus runs fine), i'm willing to pretty do anything for a solution.
     

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    I'm a newbie to this type of stuff, but I have a much slower system currently, however I noticed that once I started using the Windows Vista codecs, the TV picture improved drastically. I found that certain codecs perform better with different systems. When I used the Lav codecs to watch tv, it also stutters. Hope this helps, or possibly someone else will reply shortly.
     

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    You said Argus - I presume that means you're using ForTheRecord? 1.6.0.2?

    The ForTheRecord/Argus server is on the ASRock & not accessed over the LAN?

    Have you set DXVA2 or CUDA in LAV Video? The format/output settings are right in LAV Audio?

    Have you tried setting different audio renderer options for TV in the MP config? Try direct or a specific device rather than default.
     

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    Logs please......

    Is this only with live TV - do recordings play OK ?

    If recordings don't play OK, try playing a recording (.ts file) via the Videos section of MP - does it play OK ?

    If it doesn't play OK, then change the file extension of the recording to .mts and try playing it in Videos - this should use LAV splitter (instead of TsReader.ax) - does that play OK ?

    Tony
     

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    First of all, tnx for taking the time to reply.. i've been away for a while, so my appologies for the late reply.

    You said Argus - I presume that means you're using ForTheRecord? 1.6.0.2?

    The ForTheRecord/Argus server is on the ASRock & not accessed over the LAN?

    Have you set DXVA2 or CUDA in LAV Video? The format/output settings are right in LAV Audio?

    Have you tried setting different audio renderer options for TV in the MP config? Try direct or a specific device rather than default.

    I'm using the 1.6.1.0 Beta 6 (it makes it possible to switch between Radio and TV)
    Indeed both the ForTheRecord/Argus and MP are installed on the same Asrock box and NOT accessed over the LAN.
    I've set the LAV video to NVDIA CUVID (i use a geforce onboard card).
    Output mode is at 50p/60p (and my tv @ 50hz)
    have tried almost every codec avail. Used the new mediaportal audio render aswell.

    Logs please......

    Is this only with live TV - do recordings play OK ?

    If recordings don't play OK, try playing a recording (.ts file) via the Videos section of MP - does it play OK ?

    If it doesn't play OK, then change the file extension of the recording to .mts and try playing it in Videos - this should use LAV splitter (instead of TsReader.ax) - does that play OK ?

    Tony
    The stutter accures on both the live and recordings.
    Playing the .ts file from video stutters.
    When i change the file extension of the recording to .mts the video plays very smooth (audio is a bit off).

    I've added a TsReader log of just now. I've tuned in to Discovery Channel HD Showcase (same channel as i tested with the chanigng of extension)

    Need any more logs?

    I'm using the original tsreader.ax shipped with 1.2.3 and not using the audiorender anymore.
     

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    I guess the refresh rate of your TV isn't set correctly. You could try to set it to 50Hz or 60Hz and try which one is the best.

    If you are in Live TV mode you could press Shift + 1. The three lines should be flat :)
     

    mhoogenbosch

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    I guess the refresh rate of your TV isn't set correctly. You could try to set it to 50Hz or 60Hz and try which one is the best.

    If you are in Live TV mode you could press Shift + 1. The three lines should be flat :)
    I'll check the Shift + 1, but the refreshrate is set correctly. Nevetheless, i'll give it a try.
     

    mhoogenbosch

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    I guess the refresh rate of your TV isn't set correctly. You could try to set it to 50Hz or 60Hz and try which one is the best.

    If you are in Live TV mode you could press Shift + 1. The three lines should be flat :)
    I'll check the Shift + 1, but the refreshrate is set correctly. Nevetheless, i'll give it a try.
    With the SD video the three lines are steady, sometimes a glidge but nothing serious. On the HD channels the overlay doesn't show. ?!
     

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