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The one thing I was really interested in was the PDVD codec. Is that part of the MPC-HC fileters? If so which one is it (MPCVideoDec.ax?)? If not, is there somewhere I can grab it? I had rather just work with the codec than deal with the overhead of a codec pack. |
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Anyway... There's no way, assuming your video card is newer than 3 years old, you should not get hardware acceleration following my instructions. Sage splitter+pdvd10 will work flawlessly. Did you right click on the ffdshow tray icon while playing back a video to verify the expected decodes were being used? What type of video where you testing with? There's no splitter/decoder combination with Sage that will hardware accelerate vc1 video. Is that what you were testing? If you're willing to play along I'm willing to help out. I want to get to a place where this is a drop dead easy problem to solve for anyone. |
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I am kinda starting to feel bad about a thread-jack here. You want to make a thread with info about your blog post? That will get us out of this thread and let it either get back OT or die Plus it will make it easier for others with questions or people looking for info in the future. Last edited by Spectrum; 02-08-2011 at 06:21 AM. |
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Currently using SageTV Media Center Server on Windows 7, SageTV Client as an HTPC on Windows 7, and an HD Theater HD200. The server controls 3 Motorola DCH-3200 cable boxes and 3 Hauppauge HD-PVRs (all Rev F1) with HD audio and changes channels via firewire WITH NO LOCKUPS. It's awesome. 4 Steps to Perfect Stutter Free Playback for SageTV Quick Guide: How to Bitstream Audio in Windows 7 |
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benjatelcom, did you ever get things working?
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Currently using SageTV Media Center Server on Windows 7, SageTV Client as an HTPC on Windows 7, and an HD Theater HD200. The server controls 3 Motorola DCH-3200 cable boxes and 3 Hauppauge HD-PVRs (all Rev F1) with HD audio and changes channels via firewire WITH NO LOCKUPS. It's awesome. 4 Steps to Perfect Stutter Free Playback for SageTV Quick Guide: How to Bitstream Audio in Windows 7 |
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I thought I'd ask in this thread, I did the 4 steps to Perfect playback. TV playback is smooth, but I am unable to play video files from my Panasonic HDC-SD60. I can see the first frame of the video in Sage when browsing the directory, but the minute I "play" the video the screen goes black and all I get is audio.
The video itself is is a MTS File. I'm unclear what I need to do to get Sage to be able to play it. I was hoping that the Shark007 for win 7 64 bit would have something in it that works but following the directions on that page didn't yield any better results for the MTS file. Do I need to convert the MTS? With what? Buy a Codec? Download something? Looking for guidance. According to Panasonic's specs: Video Recording Format MPEG4-AVC/H.264 (AVCHD standard complaint) Recording Mode HA (17Mbps/VBR) (1920 x 1080), HG (13Mbps/VBR) (1920 x 1080), HX (9Mbps/VBR) 1920 x 1080), HE (5Mbps/VBR) (1440 x 1080) PS, if this is too much a hijack for this thread let me know I'll delete the post and create a brand new thread.
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I have found that the files can be fixed by running them through the Quick Stream Fix utility in the VideoRedo software (VideoRedo is a paid app). QSF will usually report a couple of Audio Synchronization errors or Video Frame Errors, which it repairs. If it happens with every file of that format, it may be something else like a codec issue.
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Server: Ryzen 2400G with integrated graphics, ASRock X470 Taichi Motherboard, HDMI output to Vizio 1080p LCD, Win10-64Bit (Professional), 16GB RAM Capture Devices (7 tuners): Colossus (x1), HDHR Prime (x2),USBUIRT (multi-zone) Source: Comcast/Xfinity X1 Cable Primary Client: Server Other Clients: (1) HD200, (1) HD300 Retired Equipment: MediaMVP, PVR150 (x2), PVR150MCE, HDHR, HVR-2250, HD-PVR |
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GollyJer. I followed your blog to the letter, and though everything is working and verified, I have two issues. Perhaps you can offer suggestions.
1. There is now some ghosting/motion blurring on panning, fast scenes, etc. 2. I've lost the ability to raise the volume for HD content that I had with ACFilter. There does not appear to be choppiness on any content. Win7 32 SageTV v7 EVGA GT-220 Thanks for the blog. Last edited by Pinan; 02-12-2011 at 11:33 AM. |
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Cool! The ghosting worries me though. Glad I can help.
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2. Mostly on 480i, seemingly. (adding note later) Which are recorded on my 150. Hmmmm 3. 32, as stated above. 4. No external hardware. I followed this thread http://forums.sagetv.com/forums/show...ght=low+volume to raise the volume. "If you install AC3filter, and set Sage to use it as the audio decoder, you can go into the AC3filter config and increase the gain on the voice channel". Worked very well. Thanks for the note back. ~~ More info: One Hauppauge 2250, and one Hauppauge 150. Gigabyte 965P-DS3 mobo 3GB RAM Core 2 Quad Q8400 Last edited by Pinan; 02-12-2011 at 10:59 PM. |
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I'll tackle your volume issue first because now I understand what you're asking. You want whats called volume normalization. I'm not certain it will work for your situation, but try opening the FFDShow Audio configuration on the Config tab of Shark007. From there go the the Volume filter. For your ghosting on pvr-150 recordings, go to the SWAP tab in Shark007 and try changing the MPEG2 setting. I normally wouldn't recommend this as PDVD10 has never been a problem for myself or my friends, but maybe there's something going on with your setup. Try Microsoft first (uses DXVA), then try FFDshow (software codec, no DXVA).
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Currently using SageTV Media Center Server on Windows 7, SageTV Client as an HTPC on Windows 7, and an HD Theater HD200. The server controls 3 Motorola DCH-3200 cable boxes and 3 Hauppauge HD-PVRs (all Rev F1) with HD audio and changes channels via firewire WITH NO LOCKUPS. It's awesome. 4 Steps to Perfect Stutter Free Playback for SageTV Quick Guide: How to Bitstream Audio in Windows 7 |
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I couldn't find a way in Shark to raise the HD volume without raising the volume globally. Nor could I find a way to set output to 2 speakers for all content, though I'm sure it's there. Do you know? Maybe I should just use AC3filter for all audio content again? 2. I found some old settings for the 150 (temporal and spatial settings) and they helped, so I'll give it a couple of days as a test. If need be I'll try what you posted. At any rate, everything still seems smooth. |
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I think you should start another thread to tackle your sound problem. You can approach it from two angles. 1) Upping the sound level for SD or HD (whichever is needed) at recording time, or 2) Use a separate audio decoder for SD and HD so you can control the volume output level of each separately. I'm a little confused as to your setup at this point. A separate thread would help.
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Currently using SageTV Media Center Server on Windows 7, SageTV Client as an HTPC on Windows 7, and an HD Theater HD200. The server controls 3 Motorola DCH-3200 cable boxes and 3 Hauppauge HD-PVRs (all Rev F1) with HD audio and changes channels via firewire WITH NO LOCKUPS. It's awesome. 4 Steps to Perfect Stutter Free Playback for SageTV Quick Guide: How to Bitstream Audio in Windows 7 Last edited by GollyJer; 02-13-2011 at 06:48 PM. Reason: audio decoder, not renderer. |
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Probably confused myself here, which wouldn't be the first time. I'll start a new thread. Hope to see you there. Thanks again GollyJer. ~~~~~~ New thread http://forums.sagetv.com/forums/show...662#post480662 Last edited by Pinan; 02-13-2011 at 07:50 PM. |
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In Sage Detailed/VideoAudio/H.264 decoder settingsI had it set as "default" as GollyJer indicated in his blog. However, after investigating the "tray" icon ffshow was, in fact, being used for H.264 playback. So in Sage I clicked "List all possible decoders" under H.264 and said to list even if sage wasn't sure it was h.264. I selected "Cyberlink Video Decoder (PDVD10)" and playback worked with that, although it was not great (jittery). I then went back in and picked "Cyberlink Video/SP Decoder (PDVD10)" and video was less jittery jittery in sage, but still not perfect. Noticed it is not forcing DxVA checkbox and since this codec isn't exposed in Sharkie not sure how to force that on. Anyone? Playback is perfectly smooth for these Panasonic Video MTS files in MS Windows 7 standard media player to my eyes using regular (not SP) PDVD10 with DXVA checked... really would like same smooth video to playback perfect in Sage like it does in the Win Media player. The machine can do it, I have it working perfectly now outside of Sage. I'm happy I have some playback in sage even if stuttery/jittery but would like to get it as smooth as MS Windows Media player. Any other suggestions would be appreciated. Sharkie 2.7.3 Sage 7 Windows 7 x64 Processor never pegs more than 50% now on playback of these files. Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
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Can you verify the the video and audio stream inside the Panasonic MTS files?
Check one out with MediaInfo.
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GollyJer. Thank you so much for your thread and blog. I have been tinkering with the following problem now for weeks and am quite frustrated. Sorry for a long post but I am trying to anticipate any questions and am including (hopefully) salient information.
I have recently converted to HD with 2 R5000 equipped VIP 211 STBs. I am running the very latest version of Sage on both the server and 1 client PC. Playback of recorded videos is choppy on the Server, almost painful at times. I have tried coreAV, Microsoft, PDVD 8 and 10, and DIVX h264 decoders. I thought I had it solved once (had good, non-choppy viewing) but the next morning, the choppiness returned. I am uncertain however I think that ShowAnalyzer was running and processing in the background. Needless to say, the WAF is way down. The client PC is smooth as silk. I came across this thread, followed the instructions to the letter and still have choppiness. Playing the files in VLC media player yields various results. This is somewhat confusing. Sometimes the videos will be fine and others they will be choppy but less so. I now have background ShowAnalyzer engine off. CPU utilization is about 50%. The server is an older but, what I thought, adequate hardware configuration: WIN 7 x64. Clean install. AMD Athlon 64 X2 4400+ Toledo 2.2GHz. ATI X700pro. 3 gig memory The client PC is newer: WIN 7 x64. AMD Athlon 64 X2 5400 Brisbane 2.8GHz. GIGABYTE GA-MA780G-UD3H on board video ATI Radeon HD 3200. 2 gig memory. Again, the client PC is smooth as silk and quite snappy. Is the server hardware, specifically the video card, suboptimal for the required task? Any ideas of how to further troubleshoot?
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The X700pro is not capable of quality playback. You'll need to upgrade.
I have an ATI 5570. It's silent, inexpensive, and works great for HD video and audio.
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Currently using SageTV Media Center Server on Windows 7, SageTV Client as an HTPC on Windows 7, and an HD Theater HD200. The server controls 3 Motorola DCH-3200 cable boxes and 3 Hauppauge HD-PVRs (all Rev F1) with HD audio and changes channels via firewire WITH NO LOCKUPS. It's awesome. 4 Steps to Perfect Stutter Free Playback for SageTV Quick Guide: How to Bitstream Audio in Windows 7 |
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Thank you so much. That is what I figured. Just ordered a new card.
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GollyJer - Ok. I followed instructions on your blog as best I could.
My client setup: Zotac ION-F-E mobo (which is Intel Atom 1.6 with nVidia ION) Win 7 64-bit 2G RAM Sage 7.1.5 Sharks Codec pack v2.7.8 (which has a few different options than your tutorial) 64-bit add-on v2.8.2 I am confused with the 64-bit portion. Do I need to go through all the tabs and set everything the same as the 32-bit settings? The PDVD codec settings (on SWAP, MPG4 and H.264 tabs) do not exist. I am using optical out (not audio through the HDMI), and needed to set the AC3filter pass through (s/pdif) in order to get the sound working properly for mkv files, but not quite everything yet. Results: MPG recordings from HDHR work great MKV files seem work work, only the AC3filter icon shows up, and they use ~30% CPU .ts recordings from HDPVR peg the CPU, and stutter like crazy some xvid movies (in .avi containers, I think those with 5.1 encoding) produce no sound, others are ok When using both the 64-bit add on and the 32-bit settings, which one takes precedent? How can I tell what each file type is trying to use? Nearly all options are repeated in both versions (except PDVD)... I just don't understand the interaction between the two.
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