Does MVP support XVID

[Francois Parent]

Does MVP currently support XVID? If not, are there any plans to add it?

[ke6guj]

not natively. Sage has experimental support in 4.1.6? that has on-the-fly transcoding. Plan on having a lot of CPU horsepower to run that smoothly. My Sempron 2500+ just barely runs it with minimal pausing and stuttering.

[BBCritical]

I have looked through the user guide and the forum's and I cannot seem to find where this setting for the experimental transcoding is. Can someone please post a link as to where to turn it on and what filetypes it supports...

[gplasky]

Read the release notes for 4.1.5.

Gerry

[BBCritical]

I only see release notes for beta ver 4.1.6....
http://forums.sagetv.com/forums/showthread.php?t=15809

[MrApollinax]

http://forums.sagetv.com/forums/showthread.php?t=15545

Originally Posted by 4.1.5 Release notes

The main thing is fixes for MVP networking/connectivity/loading issues.
There's also experimental transcoding support for the MVP in there (set the property enable_transcode_streaming=true to try it out)
...
Media Extender Updates
1. New MVP experimental transcoding support! To turn it on set the property in the Sage.properties file: enable_transcode_streaming=true

[sabre]

i have tried this, and it seems to work pretty well, assuming not a lot of menu, pause/stop/go action (although that works too). CPU usage of ~40-70%

[mayamaniac]

so does it support Xvid?

Also, the hauppauge software does Divx transcoding, now does that support Xvid?

[ke6guj]

Originally Posted by mayamaniac

so does it support Xvid?

Also, the hauppauge software does Divx transcoding, now does that support Xvid?

I'm sorry, I thought I answered that in post #2, but I see I didn't actually.

Yes, the MVP in 4.1.5 and 4.1.6 will play xvid, divx, some wmv, and maybe others if you have "experimental transcoding" turned on. That is done by adding the following statement into your sage.properties file: enable_transcode_streaming=true

With that done, your Sage server will transcode the file and send a valid mpeg stream to the MVP that it can use. Plan on having a lot of CPU if you want to use this. Without the transcoding feature, the MVP does not support playing anything but a standard mpeg file.

With regards to hauppauge's software and divx/xvid transcoding. I dunno anything about that, never used it. Sage's implementation is totally separate from that.

[Wheemer]

Just a thought: It's really too bad there is not a way to pump the video through an extra encoder... There's no way to do that with just software is there?

[c309]

where is it?

and how do you do it?

I search for it and i find a file in program files under sage tv that I can't open to put anything in.................(enable_transcode_streaming=true)


thanks in advance

tom(rookie)

[Opus4]

Originally Posted by c309

sage.properties file: where is it?

and how do you do it?

the properties file is located in the sagetv directory, where you find sagetv.exe.

To edit it, you have to completely exit (not sleep) SageTV, or the service if you use service mode. You can edit it in notepad, but make sure Format -> Word Wrap is not checked.

- Andy

[c309]

thank you very much for the response.

A few more questions if you will.

After it is in that folder do I turn it on somewhere(in Sage or Client), to make my Media extender start transcoding? Please be specific. I am a total beginner in sage and on the computer.

thank you

tom

[sleonard]

Originally Posted by c309

thank you very much for the response.

A few more questions if you will.

After it is in that folder do I turn it on somewhere(in Sage or Client), to make my Media extender start transcoding? Please be specific. I am a total beginner in sage and on the computer.

thank you

tom

Exit Sage. Go to C:\Program Files\SageTV\SageTV, find and open Sage.properties (or SageClient.properties if using the Sage Client). Change the property "enable_transcode_streaming=" to true, save the changes and exit Notepad. Thats it. Nothing else to do except to start watching your Xvid's.

[c309]

is it the same for these or is there an encoding trick to make these play too?

Thank you in advance

tom

[MrApollinax]

Transcoding is taking a encoded file and encoding it to another encoded format for transport. In this case MPEG2. As long as you can play the file in the SageTV player on your computer you should be able to transcode the file for MVP playback. I've done this with wma and divx/xvid with no problems. The only catch is that this process is very processor intensive and may bog down your system while you are streaming to your MVP.

[c309]

I can play any video file in sage tv and any in sage client------but nothing so far in media extender except those recorded by sage. Xvid is still up for trial.......im encoding a dvd to xvid now so we will see.

I get this when I try to play any non sage recorded file......:


THERE WAS AN ERROR PLAYING THE SELECTED FILE;

E:\WHATEVERFILE.avi or divx or wm audio/video file

ERROR:ERROR(19) THERE WAS NO MEDIA PLAYER THAT CAN PLAY BACK THE SELECTED FILE.

thank you for helping me

tom

[MrApollinax]

hmmm, strange. I just set the transcoding option that has been mentioned here in this thread and I can playback those files. I'll have to look at it again to check but I've done wmv, divx and xvid in the past.

[c309]

>+++++++++++ REQUEST ++++++++++

REQUEST DESCRIPTION: Is there a way to play other video formats(one's not
recorded by sage), with the Media Extender? When I import avi/wmv, etc...
non sage recorded movies, they wont play(they do play in sage and client on
same computer)

I get this when I try to play:

THERE WAS AN ERROR PLAYING THE SELECTED FILE;

E:\WHATEVER.MPG

ERROR:ERROR-19) THERE WAS NO MEDIA PLAYER THAT CAN PLAY BACK THE SELECTED
FILE.

Step by step explanation would be nice I'm new.

thanks


RESPONSE FROM SAGE:

Tom,

At this that is not supported. We are currently testing it in the beta.
http://forums.sagetv.com/forums/showthread.php?t=15809

Thanks,

George Oms
SageTV, LLC
support@sagetv.com
http://www.sagetv.com/


MY CONCLUSION:

It cant play xvid either.................MY SAGETV MEDIA EXTENDER WILL ONLY PLAY WHAT SAGE TV RECORDS PERIOD.

I give up this is junk ............it is just that,.. a sage tv ONLY media extender

thank you evrybody for your help i'm sending it back and buying a linksys.

tom

[Wheemer]

are you actually running the beta version?