STV: SageMC 16x9 Version 6.x (latest dev build)

[White94Cobra]

How many of you are using the service mode? I've been fighting frequent lockups, hangs, black screens, etc... for the past few weeks. Tonight it was so bad that I couldn't navigate for more than 5 seconds before Sage locked up. Playing a recording just gave me the spinning icon of death. It locked up 10 times in 10 minutes with reboots in between each lockup (I almost threw my keyboard across the room).

I was getting ready to give MCE a try again when I decided to stop the service, disable service mode, and load Sage again. It was FAST. Menus were 10x faster than before... I navigated around and played some videos and things were instant. Not a single lockup after 15 minutes of playing around. I do still have the weird thing were the disk space bar shows up when going back to the main menu sometimes (I do not have it enabled). But other than that, disabling the service mode seems to have worked wonders. I'll try this for a few days and see how it goes.

[scm]

Originally Posted by kricker

I had this issue once before. In sageMC options setting guide coloring to disabled fixed it for me. At some point thougb I re-enabled it and it still works fine now. I thought it was just a quirk with my system. It is worth a shot though.

Thanks. I tried it, but only with minimal improvement. I'll keep hunting.

BTW, I am using service mode connecting to a remote server.

[mickp]

Originally Posted by White94Cobra

How many of you are using the service mode? I've been fighting frequent lockups, hangs, black screens, etc... for the past few weeks. Tonight it was so bad that I couldn't navigate for more than 5 seconds before Sage locked up. Playing a recording just gave me the spinning icon of death. It locked up 10 times in 10 minutes with reboots in between each lockup (I almost threw my keyboard across the room).

I was getting ready to give MCE a try again when I decided to stop the service, disable service mode, and load Sage again. It was FAST. Menus were 10x faster than before... I navigated around and played some videos and things were instant. Not a single lockup after 15 minutes of playing around. I do still have the weird thing were the disk space bar shows up when going back to the main menu sometimes (I do not have it enabled). But other than that, disabling the service mode seems to have worked wonders. I'll try this for a few days and see how it goes.

I've found that if I run the SAGE service as system (the default) the sage client ui runs at 100% cpu. Changing the SAGE service to run as the administrator account fixed the problem and it's all running sweetly. This hasn't always been the case. I'm suspicious that it has something to do with a recent Microsoft patch.

Mick.

[kricker]

I have always run the Sage service. My Sage UI is still very quick. I have never had any problems with the service crashing or slowing me down in any way. I run the service in the default system mode. SageTV and SageService have also never gotten to 100 CPU. Currently I am running:
Sage 6.0.15
Java 1.5.0_09

[JDizzy]

I have a question about how to structure the music section.

It seems as though the library references on album names / artists which are in the tags (ID)....

As it is now, I have several hundred complete albums listed and they are all contained within their own folders:
C:\music\album1
C:\music\album2

and they show up that way in Sage as far as being in their own folders.

Now, I have a folder (named 'chill') full of single songs by various artists that I would like to add and tried it as:
C:\music\chill

But, all the songs end up out of the folder and mixed in with all the albums.
I would like just for the folder to show up and upon clicking on the folder the song titles display...

How can you go about this?
-JD

[White94Cobra]

Originally Posted by kricker

I have always run the Sage service. My Sage UI is still very quick. I have never had any problems with the service crashing or slowing me down in any way. I run the service in the default system mode. SageTV and SageService have also never gotten to 100 CPU. Currently I am running:
Sage 6.0.15
Java 1.5.0_09

Kricker - Are you running with any of the following?

Purevideo
Nvidia video card (what driver)?
Dual core (or hyperthreaded CPU)
Over 1 gig of memory
3D Acceleration
VMR9
FSE

[kricker]

Originally Posted by White94Cobra

Kricker - Are you running with any of the following?

Purevideo
Nvidia video card (what driver)?
Dual core (or hyperthreaded CPU)
Over 1 gig of memory
3D Acceleration
VMR9
FSE

Purevideo 1.02.233
onboard 6150 with drivers 93.71
AMD 3800+
1GB Ram
yes
yes
yes

PM me if you need any more info.

[geogecko]

I'm also running service mode. I am running it with an account, not default.

SageTV 6.0.15
Java 1.6.0 with latest snapshot
Purevideo 1.02.233
6600GT with 93.71 drivers
AMD 3000+
1GB RAM
3D Acceleration
VMR9
No FSE

Menu's are generally snappy, minus the delete at the end of a show sometimes. I get the spinning icon for a couple seconds once in a while, but that's generally it.

[dflachbart]

Service mode, running with an account

SageTV 6.0.15
Java 1.6.0 with latest snapshot
Purevideo
MX4000
Celeron 2.9 Ghz
1GB RAM
3D Acceleration
Overlay
No FSE

Menu's and Guide as snappy as could be. Spinning Sage icon once in a while, but still no problem at all, and given my low-end hardware (which runs server and client) expected.


Dirk

[pvr599]

Wonder if there might not have been some bad data in the file system's entries for that old music directory? Possibly could have been the problem.

heffe2001,
Yeah, could be. All I know now is it's running really good. I brought all my media files in little by little.


One other off the subject question. When I got this running once before and I used the search feature, the letters and numbers were all in thier own box not like I see it now and the way it was in previous versions where if you title searched ABC are together, DEF are together.....etc. Is that a feature I turned on? I really liked it when I saw it for a short time.

[White94Cobra]

Originally Posted by flachbar

Service mode, running with an account

SageTV 6.0.15
Java 1.6.0 with latest snapshot
Purevideo
MX4000
Celeron 2.9 Ghz
1GB RAM
3D Acceleration
Overlay
No FSE

Menu's and Guide as snappy as could be. Spinning Sage icon once in a while, but still no problem at all, and given my low-end hardware (which runs server and client) expected.


Dirk

Maybe it's time for yet another total reinstall - I just did one a few weeks ago when moving up to the beta. My HDD is constantly hammering like I'm out of memory (even when it's not recording anything). I am lucky when I can play an entire recording without some issue. I spend more time looking at the spinning icon than actually using Sage. Most of the time I have to do a hard reset (I've let the spinning icon sit overnight and it doesn't go away).

[toricred]

Is there any way to have the channel name or number in the file name as it is saved? I'd like to use the profiles in ShowAnalyzer since it has some real problems with Sleuth shows.

[MeInMaui]

Originally Posted by toricred

Is there any way to have the channel name or number in the file name as it is saved? I'd like to use the profiles in ShowAnalyzer since it has some real problems with Sleuth shows.

Is that necessary? I thought SA used data from neilm's webserver to allow you to set up profiles by channel or favorite.

Mike

[toricred]

I'm not using the web server. Maybe I should be.

[blade]

Originally Posted by MeInMaui

Is that necessary? I thought SA used data from neilm's webserver to allow you to set up profiles by channel or favorite.

Mike

It does.

[StephaneM]

Hello Dirk,

Now that Audio selection is availabe for video files and tv, it would be nice to add the audio languages in the options menu.

I just added this to the OSD Options (just before the "Aspect Ratio" menu entry):

      <Conditional Name="IsVideoFile(MediaFile) &amp;&amp; (Size(GetDVDAvailableLanguages())&gt;0)">
       <Item Name="Audio Language">
        <IgnoreThemeProps>false</IgnoreThemeProps>
        <BackgroundComponent>false</BackgroundComponent>
        <Action Ref="2477" Name="CloseOptionsMenu()"/>
        <Text Name="Audio Languages">
         <AutosizeText>false</AutosizeText>
         <WrapText>false</WrapText>
         <TextShadow>false</TextShadow>
         <DisableFontScaling>false</DisableFontScaling>
         <IgnoreThemeProps>false</IgnoreThemeProps>
         <BackgroundComponent>false</BackgroundComponent>
        </Text>
       </Item>
      </Conditional>

And it just works. The only thing left to do is to somehow "check" the current selected language, there is some code in the default STV for this, but somehow have failed to enable it in SageMC.

Regards,
Stéphane.

[dflachbart]

Originally Posted by StephaneM

Hello Dirk,

Now that Audio selection is availabe for video files and tv, it would be nice to add the audio languages in the options menu.

I just added this to the OSD Options (just before the "Aspect Ratio" menu entry):

      <Conditional Name="IsVideoFile(MediaFile) &amp;&amp; (Size(GetDVDAvailableLanguages())&gt;0)">
       <Item Name="Audio Language">
        <IgnoreThemeProps>false</IgnoreThemeProps>
        <BackgroundComponent>false</BackgroundComponent>
        <Action Ref="2477" Name="CloseOptionsMenu()"/>
        <Text Name="Audio Languages">
         <AutosizeText>false</AutosizeText>
         <WrapText>false</WrapText>
         <TextShadow>false</TextShadow>
         <DisableFontScaling>false</DisableFontScaling>
         <IgnoreThemeProps>false</IgnoreThemeProps>
         <BackgroundComponent>false</BackgroundComponent>
        </Text>
       </Item>
      </Conditional>

And it just works. The only thing left to do is to somehow "check" the current selected language, there is some code in the default STV for this, but somehow have failed to enable it in SageMC.

Regards,
Stéphane.

Hi Stephane,

not sure if I understand what you mean. The code you posted only applies to DVD content, and has already been in the SageMC options menu ('Audio Language' menu item) for a long time. Now there might be something new in V6.0 for non-DVD video files, but I couldn't find anything about this in the Mediafile or MediaPLayer APIs ...

Dirk

[dflachbart]

Originally Posted by geogecko

I can host it for a while, and see how it goes. I have 750GB/month transfer. I can monitor it for a while, and see how it goes.

Hi Jason,

I got everything sorted out more quickly than I thought and have my new hosting plan up and running, so no need for you to host the file any more. Since you mentioned Netfirms for $10/month: I stuck with the Home plan from 1&1, 1000GB transfer / 100GB space / 2GB email / 2 free domains for $4.99 a month, might be worth checking out if you ever plan to switch providers.

Thanks a lot again for your immediate help, and also to Kirby for his offer.

Dirk

[Opus4]

Originally Posted by flachbar

not sure if I understand what you mean. The code you posted only applies to DVD content, and has already been in the SageMC options menu ('Audio Language' menu item) for a long time. Now there might be something new in V6.0 for non-DVD video files, but I couldn't find anything about this in the Mediafile or MediaPLayer APIs ...

The code he posted looks like it was based on what is in the default v6 STV -- GetDVDAvailableLanguages() now does extra duty here for non-DVD videos that have multiple audio tracks.

- Andy

[geogecko]

Originally Posted by flachbar

Hi Jason,

I got everything sorted out more quickly than I thought and have my new hosting plan up and running, so no need for you to host the file any more. Since you mentioned Netfirms for $10/month: I stuck with the Home plan from 1&1, 1000GB transfer / 100GB space / 2GB email / 2 free domains for $4.99 a month, might be worth checking out if you ever plan to switch providers.

Thanks a lot again for your immediate help, and also to Kirby for his offer.

Dirk

Sure, glad you got it worked out. I'll have to look into that when my contract is up. Sounds like a deal good enough for what I need, and saves me about $60.

Hopefully I can take my domain name with me, to keep all my pics and links working...