STV: Cayars17 Ultimate STV (Release 17 - Jan 18)

[ajuhawk]

Originally Posted by rsagetv99

I was noticing that a lot of my shows were not being com detected so I killed CD and tried to restart it, but I got an error that it expired.

Are these problems related?

I don't believe they are related. What I'm noticing is that once every two days or so I need to restart the comdetect manager. Once I do that things seem to run normally for a couple more days.

[White94Cobra]

Is anyone that uses UNC paths for their recordings successfully comskipping using the latest beta STV? If I go back to CDM test C it works fine.

[Tony414]

I'm having difficulty playing a ripped dvd. I'm nto sure if it's a problem or I'm doing something wrong. I'm sure it's just me Anyway, after running the rip dvd command I'm seeing the dvd folder that I just ripped. When I click on it, it shows nothing for file size (or something like that). When I click watch now nothing happens. I looked in the "dvds" folder and see it there. Any ideas??

[setherd]

Originally Posted by Tony414

I'm having difficulty playing a ripped dvd. I'm nto sure if it's a problem or I'm doing something wrong. I'm sure it's just me Anyway, after running the rip dvd command I'm seeing the dvd folder that I just ripped. When I click on it, it shows nothing for file size (or something like that). When I click watch now nothing happens. I looked in the "dvds" folder and see it there. Any ideas??

what are you using to rip? and what mode/settings? prefer dvd shrink and ripping to file

[Tony414]

Originally Posted by setherd

what are you using to rip? and what mode/settings? prefer dvd shrink and ripping to file

I'm using dvd decryptor the way Cayars STV has it setup. It seemed to rip fine. The files are located in c:\dvds\(foldername of dvd). I have no trouble playing them stand-alone. I can't seem to figure out how to play them through Sage. I have Sage set to use external dvd player (TheaterTek). DVD's play fine in my drive.

[setherd]

I didn't see this info posted anywhere so I thought I put this up.
I had a problem getting zoomplayer to work as an exteranl player.
http://www.inmatrix.com/zplayer/parameters.shtml
that's where you can find all the commandline parameters you can use with zoomplayer.

DVD player:
"C:\Program Files\Zoom Player\zplayer.exe" /F /LOCKFS /DVD /VOL:100 /CD:E /PLAY /Q %1

the quotation marks are very important. they have to close right after zplayer.exe
/F means fulscreen mode,
/LOCKFS means lock into fullscreen mode (not sure how effective),
/DVD means dvd mode,
/VOL:100 sets the volume to 100%, I'm doing that because I'm using spdif to an external receiver,
/CD:E tells it the dvd drive, replace that with your drive letter,
/PLAY tells it to start playing,
/Q tells it to quit zoomplayer when done playing back. (VERY IMPORTANT)
%1 is the file passed from sagetv.

video player: (only for ripped dvd's)
"C:\Program Files\Zoom Player\zplayer.exe" /F /LOCKFS /VOL:100 %1\VIDEO_TS.IFO /Q

everything is the sme except no dvd mode, no dvd drive letter, and you have to change %1 to this %1\VIDEO_TS.IFO
as near as I can tell sage is passing the ZP the video_ts folder while in ZP I can tell it to open a folder apparently it doesn't want to get that as a commandline parameter. by making it receive the video ts folder with video_ts.ifo as the file in it everything works.

I also have some avi files in my movie folder and I use sage to play these back. there is a problem trying to play back individual files using my method b/c of the VIDEO_TS.IFO appended to the file name.

hope this is of use to someone

[rsagetv99]

Originally Posted by rsagetv99

BTW, can comskip process files that have been compressed using FFMPEG?

Carlo, I tested this as you requested, and it did not work. What I did were as follows:
1. Compressed file using default compression format setting (Divx I think).
2. Manually moved the .txt, .ccno, .vpr files over to the same folder that contained the new compressed files.

When I play the file I do not see any of the purple commercial breaks, maybe the STV is not set to look for them with this type of file...

[ToonGal]

Court for interim stuff finally done. VERY positive results all around. Taking the day off from everything, and watching NFL-related TV to decompress. As a result, lots more feedback. If I get inspired, I might actually FIX that darned PVR-250 and ship it RMA'd to Hauppauge. Maybe tomorrow.

Using v17 still. Assuming true to v18.x as well.

1) BUG: TV Recordings, 2 pane view. I've been taping "Super Bowl Highlights" and have most of the 38 recorded. When navigating the individual episodes with arrow up/down, it works great. When navigating with page up/down, then arrow up/down, it seems to lose focus on which episode is highlighted. The only way to get control back is to use arrow up/down again. I'm assuming there's an array that simply doesn't load all eps shown on the screen.

2) REQUEST: Same show example. It would be REALLY nice to have these sorted in some reasonable fashion. As it is, I can only assume "random", "hash", or "order recorded", although the last seems not true in my case (I think). Curious as to what it currently is; much more interested in sorting by episode ID, if available, title, if not.

3) QUESTION: Same show example. Viewing history is a terrific feature, given the numerous "bass masters" record errors over my Super Bowl Highlights. I want to track which, if any, I'm missing. Is it possible to link "Viewing History" to a keystroke, currently? If so, how?

4) QUESTION: Any progress on integration of items from my previous post?
http://forums.freytechnologies.com/f...3709#post83709

Thanks again, as always, Carlo!

[jgsouthard]

Originally Posted by bgorrell

I think I've found a hard bug in the menu system. Exactly what I did (confirmed multiple times):

1. Go to IMDB Search
2. Search for person (for instance... Brooke Burke )
3. Use left arrow key to go back
4. Did you get a blank menu with the number 1?
5. Press left arrow... looks like it will be okay...
6. Select Back
7. FUBAR from here on out

I get an error and a "default menu" that does nothing. Closing and restarting Sage is required at this point.

See posts 2157, 2159, and 2342. I haven't tested this in any of the 18x betas, and you didn't say what version you were using, but it sounds like it hasn't been fixed yet.

[rsagetv99]

I created a new thread for Feature Requests, maybe if we use this one for all of the STV feature requests we can keep track of the requests a little better. It's called "Cayars: Unofficial Feature Request Thread".

[briands]

Has this thread really gone over 30 hours without a post... What is everone watching TV or something???

[abbott_m]

dunno but i'm really wanting to get my hands on the current v18 code cause i'm getting some lockups with v17 and i'm rather hoping that's been fixed.

[hchucky]

I have been running 18D2 since it was released along with 2.2.4. I just upgraded to 2.2.5 and noticed that there is a change in the way that CommercialDetection is processing files. It is now waiting to process the files until they are done recording. Before the upgrade it would start processing the files shortly after the recording starts.

Something else that I noticed (this was there before the upgrade) is that when I run CommercialDetection on two computers the first computer will delete the logo.txt file of a show that is being analyzed by Commercial Detection on the second computer. Is this normal?

Is anyone else seeing these issues?

UPDATE - Looking at things this morning it appears to be processing commercials in near real time. Not sure why it was not working like this last night but again appears fine this morning. Still having the issue with the logo.txt file being deleted but maybe that's normal.

HC

[JREkiwi]

I'm getting a couple of messages showing up in sagetvclient_0.txt with Cayars17

1.

ERROR Cannot find translation file for STV:java.util.MissingResourceException: Can't find bundle for base name STVs\OriginalV2\Cayars17_i18n, locale

I can make this go away by copying C:\Program Files\Frey Technologies\SageTV\STVs\OriginalV2\OriginalV2_i18n.properties to Cayars17_i18n.properties. Is it just me missing this file? I can't find it in any of the Cayars STV builds I have. SageMC has one though.

2. My log is filling up with this message. See attachment for full text.

java.lang.StringIndexOutOfBoundsException: String index out of range: 12
...
EXCEPTION in getValueAsObject:java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException: -1
java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException: -1

Only happens when running Cayars STV

Any ideas?

Sage 2.2.5
Java 1.5.0_01

[bones71]

Hey everyone, Love this stv have a small problem just got a new laptop it is cool to be able to watch sage anywhere in the house, But I can't get comskip to work on it files are marked on the server but not on the laptop. I have autoskip enabled.I am using the newest sage beta and cayars 17. tried some other stvs also can't get it to work. Would appreciate if anyone could tell me what I am missing thanks.

[owilsky]

Originally Posted by JREkiwi

2. My log is filling up with this message. See attachment for full text. Only happens when running Cayars STV

Any ideas?

Sage 2.2.5
Java 1.5.0_01

I see this also:

Fr 2/4 17:46:04.985 setUI(sage.ae@1187d2f[SageRecordings Shortcut by Cayars]) histIdx=1 uiHistory=[sage.ae@1066caf[Dynamic Main Menu by nielm modified by Cayars], sage.ae@1187d2f[SageRecordings Shortcut by Cayars]]
Fr 2/4 17:46:05.157 setUI(sage.ae@11c5342[SageRecordings w/ Optional Preview and AutoCategories modified by Cayars]) histIdx=1 uiHistory=[sage.ae@1066caf[Dynamic Main Menu by nielm modified by Cayars], sage.ae@11c5342[SageRecordings w/ Optional Preview and AutoCategories modified by Cayars]]
java.lang.StringIndexOutOfBoundsException: String index out of range: 12
Fr 2/4 17:46:05.209 	at java.lang.String.substring(Unknown Source)
Fr 2/4 17:46:05.209 	at sage.ag$31.do(Unknown Source)
Fr 2/4 17:46:05.210 	at sage.s.a(Unknown Source)
Fr 2/4 17:46:05.212 	at sage.a.d.a(Unknown Source)
Fr 2/4 17:46:05.212 	at sage.a.c.a(Unknown Source)
Fr 2/4 17:46:05.213 	at sage.a.k.if(Unknown Source)
Fr 2/4 17:46:05.213 	at sage.a.d.a(Unknown Source)
Fr 2/4 17:46:05.214 	at sage.a.c.a(Unknown Source)
Fr 2/4 17:46:05.231 	at sage.a.k.if(Unknown Source)
Fr 2/4 17:46:05.232 	at sage.a.d.a(Unknown Source)
Fr 2/4 17:46:05.232 	at sage.a.c.a(Unknown Source)
Fr 2/4 17:46:05.233 	at sage.a.d.a(Unknown Source)
Fr 2/4 17:46:05.233 	at sage.a.m.a(Unknown Source)
Fr 2/4 17:46:05.234 	at sage.ag.a(Unknown Source)
Fr 2/4 17:46:05.234 	at sage.an.if(Unknown Source)
Fr 2/4 17:46:05.245 	at sage.an.else(Unknown Source)
Fr 2/4 17:46:05.246 	at sage.an.<init>(Unknown Source)
Fr 2/4 17:46:05.246 	at sage.an.a(Unknown Source)
Fr 2/4 17:46:05.247 	at sage.an.a(Unknown Source)
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Fr 2/4 17:46:05.251 	at sage.an.a(Unknown Source)
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Fr 2/4 17:46:05.258 	at sage.an.a(Unknown Source)
Fr 2/4 17:46:05.259 	at sage.an.a(Unknown Source)
Fr 2/4 17:46:05.259 	at sage.an.a(Unknown Source)
Fr 2/4 17:46:05.261 	at sage.an.a(Unknown Source)
Fr 2/4 17:46:05.286 	at sage.an.<init>(Unknown Source)
Fr 2/4 17:46:05.287 	at sage.av.byte(Unknown Source)
Fr 2/4 17:46:05.288 	at sage.av.try(Unknown Source)
Fr 2/4 17:46:05.288 	at sage.an.new(Unknown Source)
Fr 2/4 17:46:05.289 	at sage.an.try(Unknown Source)
Fr 2/4 17:46:05.289 	at sage.an.new(Unknown Source)
Fr 2/4 17:46:05.290 	at sage.an.try(Unknown Source)
Fr 2/4 17:46:05.290 	at sage.an.new(Unknown Source)
Fr 2/4 17:46:05.291 	at sage.ae.f(Unknown Source)
Fr 2/4 17:46:05.291 	at sage.UIManager.a(Unknown Source)
Fr 2/4 17:46:05.292 	at sage.UIManager.a(Unknown Source)
Fr 2/4 17:46:05.293 	at sage.UIManager.c(Unknown Source)
Fr 2/4 17:46:05.293 	at sage.an.a(Unknown Source)
Fr 2/4 17:46:05.294 	at sage.an.a(Unknown Source)
Fr 2/4 17:46:05.294 	at sage.ag.a(Unknown Source)
Fr 2/4 17:46:05.295 	at sage.ag.a(Unknown Source)
Fr 2/4 17:46:05.295 	at sage.ag.a(Unknown Source)
Fr 2/4 17:46:05.296 	at sage.ae.f(Unknown Source)
Fr 2/4 17:46:05.297 	at sage.UIManager.a(Unknown Source)
Fr 2/4 17:46:05.297 	at sage.UIManager.a(Unknown Source)
Fr 2/4 17:46:05.298 	at sage.UIManager.c(Unknown Source)
Fr 2/4 17:46:05.298 	at sage.ag$688.do(Unknown Source)
Fr 2/4 17:46:05.299 	at sage.s.a(Unknown Source)
Fr 2/4 17:46:05.299 	at sage.a.d.a(Unknown Source)
Fr 2/4 17:46:05.300 	at sage.a.c.a(Unknown Source)
Fr 2/4 17:46:05.300 	at sage.a.d.a(Unknown Source)
Fr 2/4 17:46:05.301 	at sage.a.m.a(Unknown Source)
Fr 2/4 17:46:05.301 	at sage.ag.a(Unknown Source)
Fr 2/4 17:46:05.302 	at sage.an.a(Unknown Source)
Fr 2/4 17:46:05.303 	at sage.an.a(Unknown Source)
Fr 2/4 17:46:05.303 	at sage.an.actionPerformed(Unknown Source)
Fr 2/4 17:46:05.304 	at sage.an.mouseReleased(Unknown Source)
Fr 2/4 17:46:05.304 	at sage.c.do(Unknown Source)

continues this way.
Also 2.2.5 beta, Java 1.4.2_07.

Oliver

[bones71]

I even set up unc paths still no go why won't this work?

[Cayars]

Originally Posted by briands

Has this thread really gone over 30 hours without a post... What is everone watching TV or something???

Well I'm just getting back into things. Rebuilding a large RAID (over 2TBs) is painful. At least backus were good

I'll be addressing things shortly.

[ajuhawk]

Originally Posted by bones71

I even set up unc paths still no go why won't this work?

Are your paths the same on both computers? On my server everything is R:TV, thus on both my clients I have a drive mapped as R: which has the media stored in TV so that on both the server and the clients everything is identical. If this is not the case then the STV will not find the comskip info and thus has no idea that it's out there.

[bones71]

yes my paths are he same on client and server but I used unc not mapped drives.