SageTV Demux Beta for Windows w/ Accurate Seeking

[donkey]

Originally Posted by redondo_se

FYI, if you want to enable the demux log (at least this worked with the earlier betas):

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To enable MpegDeMux.log
create an empty file "MPEGDEMUX_LOG.ENABLE" in sagetv directory, restart
sagetv. sagetv creates a log "MpegDemux.log"
-----------------------------------------------------------------

Send in a log, we need a log file to trace down.

[kricker]

I'll try to get a log later today. Send it straigt to you?

[ace007]

I upgraded to 6.5.3 last week before my STX-200 showed up. At home it seems to be running well off the server, the 200, and my MediaMVP so I'm pretty happy. Unfortunately the newer Placeshifter is horrible when remote. I submitted a bug report and sent them a few screenshots of the statistics but I never heard back.

Is anybody else having issues with 6.5.3 Placeshifter when remote?

Rob

[rochurch]

I am getting this when I replace (backed up file) with the latest (12/11)

There was a Playback Error in playback.
sage.Playback Exception: Error( -3,0 x800736b1)
There was a problem accessing the filesystem for playback.

[davidk21770]

I dropped 19 in over 18 with 6.5.3 and it stopped playback after about 5 minutes in a high def program. I switched back 18 and all is well.

[rochurch]

Got it resolved. I was on 6.4.8. Upgraded to 6.5.3 and the new MpegDeMux.ax worked. I'll monitor to see.

[donkey]

An update version 2.0.1.20 here
http://download.sage.tv/users/qian/6.5.3/MpegDeMux.ax.

Fix: a bad PTS in a recording causes playing stop after FF/RW.

[sundansx]

Qian,
I have been using 2.0.1.18 and it is working pretty good. very accurate, but I get a lockup sometimes as others have, ususally worse on some shows. That said, I watched two Chucks (MPG2, HDTV, no demux hang) tonight and didn't even pick up the remote through the whole show. Wife even remarked how awesome it was. WAF++

I have installed 2.0.1.20 tonight and will try it out tomorrow. By the way I am still using current 6.4 release and have replaced the demux with the ones you have been posting or have been included in the beta builds.

Thank you very much for your fine work on fixing an age old problem with Sagetv (Wow, I looked back at some old posts and saw that I first reported this problem on 09-29-2006)

[davidk21770]

2.0.1.20 worked quite nicely here last night.

[redondo_se]

Hi Qian,

2.0.1.20 seems to be working pretty well for me so far.

Do the settings in

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Frey Technologies\Common\DSFilters\MpegDeMux

have any affect on your new demux, or are these just remnants from the old demux? I'm trying to resolve an issue I've had for a long time with occasional video stutter. If they do work, are there any theoretical issues with making the BufferSize, BlockSize, or NumBuffers too big? Should BufferSize be evenly divisible by MPEG2PackSeekModulus? What are the optimal values from your testing?

Thanks,
Sean.

[ToxMox]

I am having some of the old inaccurate skips with 2.0.1.20 I prefer .19
I'd rather have to stop and restart playback once per show than have any kind of inaccuracy when skipping.

[ToxMox]

Is there somewhere I can download .19 again? I overwrote it when downloading .20

[donkey]

Originally Posted by ToxMox

Is there somewhere I can download .19 again? I overwrote it when downloading .20

we didn't back up .19, could you enable MpegDemux log? give me a inaccuracy seeking log.

[ke6guj]

here's 19.

[ToxMox]

Originally Posted by donkey

we didn't back up .19, could you enable MpegDemux log? give me a inaccuracy seeking log.

I did this on my client:

-----------------------------------------------------------------
To enable MpegDeMux.log
create an empty file "MPEGDEMUX_LOG.ENABLE" in sagetv directory, restart
sagetv. sagetv creates a log "MpegDemux.log"
-----------------------------------------------------------------

but it didn't create a log file. Do I need to do this on my server instead?

[redondo_se]

Originally Posted by ToxMox

I did this on my client: but it didn't create a log file. Do I need to do this on my server instead?

Did you put it in the same directory as SageTVClient.exe, e.g.

C:\Program Files\SageTV\SageTV

Are you on Vista with UAC enabled?

Did you make sure the file name is correct?

[kricker]

Originally Posted by ToxMox

I did this on my client: but it didn't create a log file. Do I need to do this on my server instead?

I don't think I got a log either until I set debug_logging=true in the properties file as well.

[ToxMox]

Originally Posted by redondo_se

Did you put it in the same directory as SageTVClient.exe, e.g.

yes

C:\Program Files\SageTV\SageTV
C:\Program Files (x86)\SageTV\SageTV in my case

Are you on Vista with UAC enabled?
Vista x64 no UAC

Did you make sure the file name is correct?
Yes

debug logging is also set to true

[ToxMox]

Never mind...I'm a big idiot. Forgot to refresh explorer across the network.

[ToxMox]

Originally Posted by donkey

we didn't back up .19, could you enable MpegDemux log? give me a inaccuracy seeking log.

Here is a log. around 19:05 I had paused earlier and returned to watching and after doing a comskip jump it wasn't in the right spot. It was way off last night when I was watching something that was still being recorded. Was having symptoms of the playback all of a sudden being from the beginning of the show when I was already 45 minutes in then hitting skip again would bring it back to where it should have been. Pretty much behaving much in the way the demux behaved before this thread was started. .19 was working very well for me I think with only having to stop and restart the show once for almost every recording but it was very accurate.