HD Transcoding Choppy on MVP and Conversions

[jquinlan]

Originally Posted by zoso

The sage transcode is only single thread. This means that unless you are running other transcodes (or other cpu intensive activities) at the same time, it is not going to matter how many cores you have.

ZOSO is right, is does not matter if you have dual or quad core, only one core or thread is used for each Transcoder. You need to get the fastest GHz chip you can if you wish to trasncode HD. Dual and Quads will possibly allow multiple MVP connection with each trasncoder using a different core or thread. Or just wait for the HD Extender.

[zoso]

Originally Posted by jquinlan

ZOSO is right, is does not matter if you have dual or quad core, only one core or thread is used for each Transcoder. You need to get the fastest GHz chip you can if you wish to trasncode HD. Dual and Quads will possibly allow multiple MVP connection with each trasncoder using a different core or thread. Or just wait for the HD Extender.

The multiple core will allow for multiple MVPs. I can run HD programs on 2 (haven't tried 3 yet, but I assume it would work) MVPs with out a stutter.

[dmiraclejr]

George of SageTV support got back to me today with the following reply:

"Donnie,

I heard back from one of the developers and they have fixed this for version
6.1. Hopefully a release candidate of version 6.1 will be released within
2-3 weeks.

George"

So here is hoping for a speedy version 6.1 release!!

[Stuntman]

I'm sure I'm dense.. but..

Fixed what for the 6.1 release?

Originally Posted by dmiraclejr

George of SageTV support got back to me today with the following reply:

"Donnie,

I heard back from one of the developers and they have fixed this for version
6.1. Hopefully a release candidate of version 6.1 will be released within
2-3 weeks.

George"

So here is hoping for a speedy version 6.1 release!!

[BBCritical]

Would this alleviate the need for an HD extender (the proposed fix)?

[dmiraclejr]

Stuntman:

George said that the choppy/shuddering video that is produced when the server transcodes high definition content so that it may be played on the MVP will be corrected with 6.1 (the MVP can not play HD by itself thus the needed transcoding by the server).

BBCritical:

No, it does not replace a HD extender unless all you want to do is record HD content and play it back as transcoded standard definition. Most people want a HD extender to use as a HD client to play back HD content on HD televisions. We will still need the HD extender to do this.

Hope that helps.

[Stuntman]

Originally Posted by dmiraclejr

Stuntman:

George said that the choppy/shuddering video that is produced when the server transcodes high definition content so that it may be played on the MVP will be corrected with 6.1 (the MVP can not play HD by itself thus the needed transcoding by the server).

BBCritical:

No, it does not replace a HD extender unless all you want to do is record HD content and play it back as transcoded standard definition. Most people want a HD extender to use as a HD client to play back HD content on HD televisions. We will still need the HD extender to do this.

Hope that helps.

Ahh... thanks!! Wish it would show today then! I had planned on trying to project the Superbowl this weekend using my MVP and a HD TV Stream...

[IVB]

Originally Posted by BBCritical

So if I have an Athlon64 3700+ 2.4Ghz CPU w/ 2.6 Gig RAM it should be able to handle steaming the HD to my MVPs?

Was this question ever dealt with? I've been searching for a while here, can't find a definitive answer.

One of my machines is bugging out, it's a 3yr old via chipset mobo so i may just replace it and make it my SageTV server. Looking to transcode one HDTV stream to an MVP, I don't have an issue purchasing an AMD Athlon 64 4000, that plus a mobo is only $200-ish. But, if there's still stuttering, that doesn't really help me.

[bcjenkins]

Originally Posted by IVB

Was this question ever dealt with? I've been searching for a while here, can't find a definitive answer.

One of my machines is bugging out, it's a 3yr old via chipset mobo so i may just replace it and make it my SageTV server. Looking to transcode one HDTV stream to an MVP, I don't have an issue purchasing an AMD Athlon 64 4000, that plus a mobo is only $200-ish. But, if there's still stuttering, that doesn't really help me.

I am using a P4 2.8 875P for the server running Java 1.6 Server 2K3 and using standard quality for MVP. I can watch HDTV. I still block it from the channel list though. (Thanks Bob for FCL!)

B

[mcaron1234]

Originally Posted by One of my machines is bugging out, it's a 3yr old via chipset mobo so i may just replace it and make it my SageTV server. Looking to transcode one HDTV stream to an MVP, I don't have an issue purchasing [url=http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103868

an AMD Athlon 64 4000[/url], that plus a mobo is only $200-ish. But, if there's still stuttering, that doesn't really help me.

I have the socket 939 version of the 4000+ and a ECS mobo and am now, with the 6.1.6 RC and getting stutter free playback of HDHR HD files via the MVP. The 6.0.19 release had major audio out of sync issues when transcoding HD files with the 4000+. The betas have really made a huge difference with this.

Matt

[flavius]

Standard quality works fine here (AMD Sempron 3000+), if not much else is going on. Recently my son walked up to me and complained about choppy playback - well, the server was recording two transport streams, one of them HD and some other show on the hauppauge - while my son wanted to watch another transport stream show on one of the MVP's.

In a few days I'm getting a new C2D mobo..

[appelm]

I can't get any TS files to transcode at all to my MVPs. I have an hdhomerun and nothing that is recorded on it will play on the MVP. I'm using 6.1.6. When I hit play on the MVP, the screen seems to try to start playing and then it locks up. Only way to reset it is to unplug the MVP. Then the MVP won't connect to the server and I actually have to go to the server and terminate the SageTV process and restart it.

Anyone else experiene this? My server is a Pentium 4 2.8gz machine with 1gb ram with gigabit lan.

[flavius]

See http://forums.sagetv.com/forums/showthread.php?t=24346

That's the fix for 6.1.6. You can also upgrade to 6.1.7.

[appelm]

i'll try 6.1.7 tonight. I tried installing that dll and then Sage won't load at all.. I get some dll mismatch error.