TV Quality setting on 0.2.2.0 is broken? (1 Viewer)

[igalan]

In previous versions of Media Portal I enabled the quality setting on my PVR-350 and set it to medium or low. That worked fine. Now if I enable this setting on MP 0.2.2.0, TV frame-rate is worse than 1 fps when time-shift is enabled. If I uncheck this setting, everything works as expected, including time-shift.

MediaPortal Version: 0.2.2.0
MediaPortal Skin: Blue Two
Windows Version: Windows XP Pro SP2
CPU Type: AMD XP 2500+
HDD: Seagate Barracuda 320 GB 7200 rpm 8 MB cache
Memory: 512 MB DDR333 (2x256 MB Dual Channel)
Motherboard: Shuttle SN41G2V3
Motherboard Chipset: nForce 2 MCP
Motherboard Bios:
Video Card: Sapphire Atlantis ATI Radeon 9600 (passively cooled)
Video Card Driver: Catalyst 3.11
Sound Card: built-in
Sound Card AC3:
Sound Card Driver: Audio driver 4.42 (WHQL)
1. TV Card: Hauppauge PVR 350
1. TV Card Type: analog
1. TV Card Driver:
2. TV Card: Hauppauge HVR 900
2. TV Card Type: DVB-T
2. TV Card Driver: 2.5E (24198)
3. TV Card:
3. TV Card Type:
3. TV Card Driver:
4. TV Card:
4. TV Card Type:
4. TV Card Driver:
MPEG2 Video Codec: MPV
MPEG2 Audio Codec: DScaler Audio Codec
Satelite/CableTV Provider:
HTPC Case: Shuttle SN41G2V3
Cooling:
Power Supply: Shuttle 250W
Remote: iMON Knob
TV: Loewe Cantus
TV - HTPC Connection: S-Video

 

[geov]

Which quality setting are you talking about?

Cheers
GeoV

 

[FlipGer]

Hi,

quality settings for PVR 350 is unfortunately broken since quite some time. I reported it already, but there was no reaction, yet.

Flip.

 

[igalan]

Not that much time as with MediaPortal 0.2.1.0 this was working. I didn't try SVN releases, though.

 

[FlipGer]

Hi,

did it with MP 0.2.1.0? Must have missed this, because in 0.2.0.0 it did not work:
https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/showthread.php?t=4884

So I turned it off and did not test it since, neither in 0.2.1.0 nor in 0.2.2.0

Flip.

 

[igalan]

The issue you describe seems different. I haven't looked at the resulting file sizes to confirm wether the correct bitrate has been used or not. The problem is that TV playback doesn't work properly, I get really bad stutter with this setting enabled. I've double checked with a clean install of MP 0.2.2.0.

On Media Portal 0.2.1.0 I had quality enabled and selected 'low' which was enough for analog TV; and I'm almost sure that with MP 0.2.0.0 I had the same setting. But as I said, I never looked exactly the resulting bitrate, as long as 1 h recording took less than 2 GB, that was enough for me.

 

[FlipGer]

Hi,

with "low" a one hour recording would have been lower than 1 GB. It should have been around 700 MB. And "low" does look ugly (imho ).

I will check with 0.2.2.0 as soon as I can, if I also get stutter.

Flip.

 

[igalan]

Then it wasn't doing it's thing because my recordings have always been in the ballpark of 2 GB/h.

But now it's completely broken here. It's unwatchable TV with the quality setting enabled, regardless of the quality chosen: low, medium or high.