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

[Drazi]

Originally Posted by duddarr

With debug enabled I get "warning: couldn't find any valid system header. I'm continuing anyway". It then goes through demultiplexing, but after that I get another error: can't open c:\Program......system cannot find the file specified. Any thoughts?

This is my current problem. Demux is okay but then neither dvdauthor or mkisofs seems to run. So DVD Decypter gives an error because there is no .iso file to write.

[Cayars]

Originally Posted by pciccone

Ya, "E" version for sure....

When the dual dir mode is enabled before it starts the demux is seems to be copying the file across the two drives. I dont see a debug window on this, but I do see both drives running (only a guess?? it sits for a long time). (vs. the normal way where the demux debug window opens as soon as dvdburner.exe starts up).

What it shoud do if not using UNC paths is demux to Dir1. Leaving out compression here. It would then MUX to Dir2, then AUTHOR to Dir1 and then build the ISO on Dir2.

All it should be doing is reading from one drive and writing to another to lighten the IO load.

Prcedure call or agument is not valid. at MS.VB.FS.Rename(String oldPath, String newPath) at DVDBurner.Module1.Demux(<demux param list>)

This gives me something to go on. I'll check it out.

Want to stress it sits for a good 30 minutes before this error appears and only happens when running dual temp directories. I abreviated the above message, you know what it means

R U using UNCs, mapped drives or local drives on this machine?

Carlo

[Cayars]

Originally Posted by Cayars

What it shoud do if not using UNC paths is demux to Dir1. Leaving out compression here. It would then MUX to Dir2, then AUTHOR to Dir1 and then build the ISO on Dir2.

All it should be doing is reading from one drive and writing to another to lighten the IO load.

This gives me something to go on. I'll check it out.

R U using UNCs, mapped drives or local drives on this machine?

Carlo

I'm going to make a new build of the DVDBurner that will expose the command line arguments so you guys can use it external to SageTV for testing (on another machine if you want).

I'm going to also put together a min-faq for trouble shooting, showing you how to run each of the steps manually to see where things fail.

[abasu2003]

Drazi and others,

maybe it will be easier (organizational purposes) to start using the "Cayars: DVDBurner" thread. At least Drazi is having the same problem as me and Cyrex on that thread.

Of course this Turbo Drive problem is a little different and might need a thread of its own

[SteveP]

I just found an issue after I upgraded to Cayars 16. The Main Menu Options function isn't able to add a new menu item. It can delete, but can't add. I tried adding an Internal Screen (#93) several times and nothing happens. This worked great with version 15. I'm trying to add back a function I had before. Any ideas?

Thanks,
Steve

[Cayars]

It's working on my system so I can't be of much help.

[Cayars]

Originally Posted by abasu2003

Drazi and others,

maybe it will be easier (organizational purposes) to start using the "Cayars: DVDBurner" thread. At least Drazi is having the same problem as me and Cyrex on that thread.

Of course this Turbo Drive problem is a little different and might need a thread of its own

And lose the massive thread count?

[mdmint]

Originally Posted by SteveP

I just found an issue after I upgraded to Cayars 16. The Main Menu Options function isn't able to add a new menu item. It can delete, but can't add. I tried adding an Internal Screen (#93) several times and nothing happens. This worked great with version 15. I'm trying to add back a function I had before. Any ideas?

Thanks,
Steve

Works on mine too, both 2 Clients w/v16 and a 3rd w/v17a.

[SteveP]

Originally Posted by SteveP

I just found an issue after I upgraded to Cayars 16. The Main Menu Options function isn't able to add a new menu item. It can delete, but can't add. I tried adding an Internal Screen (#93) several times and nothing happens. This worked great with version 15. I'm trying to add back a function I had before. Any ideas?

Thanks,
Steve

DOH! Big Simpson moment! I didn't add a name for the menu item.

Steve

[SteveP]

Request: The single Upcoming Recording line at the bottom of the main page is a great idea. What about placing the advance/go back arrows together on the right side of the line instead of split with one arrow on each end of the line? The end result could be two arrows on the right with one pointing up and one down.

Cheers,
Steve

[ajuhawk]

Originally Posted by rsagetv99

Hurry up with that FAQ PLEASE!!!!

Originally Posted by broderp

Is there a way to organize this HUGE thread?
Someone mentioned a FAQ to the issues brought up and resolved.
Is there a wiki page for this STV?

I'm working as fast as I can Okay, so actually I'm only putting an hour or two a night in, but I should be able to spend some serious time working on the documentation part tomorrow. However, the FAQ part still could use a ton of input from everybody out there. So far only one person has sent me a couple items for the FAQ. I REALLY, REALLY, REALLY need YOU to send me tips and solutions, as I'd rather not spend 2005 digging through the previous 2200+ messages! Thanks in advance

-AJ

[Cayars]

Originally Posted by ajuhawk

I'm working as fast as I can Okay, so actually I'm only putting an hour or two a night in, but I should be able to spend some serious time working on the documentation part tomorrow. However, the FAQ part still could use a ton of input from everybody out there. So far only one person has sent me a couple items for the FAQ. I REALLY, REALLY, REALLY need YOU to send me tips and solutions, as I'd rather not spend 2005 digging through the previous 2200+ messages! Thanks in advance

-AJ

I did you one better. I created a new thread specifically for this. Maybe this way more people will see it and contribute to it. This will also give everyone a chance to offer a different solution or maybe a better way to accomplish something related to the FAQs.

The thread is here: http://forums.freytechnologies.com/f...9442#post81534

[pciccone]

R U using UNCs, mapped drives or local drives on this machine?

Regular local drive letters D:\TEMP and E:\TEMP. If you want me to try some other configuration to troubleshoot further let me know. The odd thing is it sitting for a while before the demux, if its not copying anything I wonder what its doing for 30 minutes before the error box. In your demux class what are you trying to rename using the FSO rename function? It must be a rename before you spawn the demux command to mpgtx.

If you cannot figure it out on code alone, maybe you can do a quick build with some message boxes printing strings oldPath and newPath?

For the hell of it, I will check my ASP.NET version maybe something quirkey about it causing my FSO functions to behave differently.

[Cayars]

Originally Posted by pciccone

Regular local drive letters D:\TEMP and E:\TEMP. If you want me to try some other configuration to troubleshoot further let me know. The odd thing is it sitting for a while before the demux, if its not copying anything I wonder what its doing for 30 minutes before the error box. In your demux class what are you trying to rename using the FSO rename function? It must be a rename before you spawn the demux command to mpgtx.

If you cannot figure it out on code alone, maybe you can do a quick build with some message boxes printing strings oldPath and newPath?

For the hell of it, I will check my ASP.NET version maybe something quirkey about it causing my FSO functions to behave differently.

Do me a favor and continue this in the Cayars: DVDBurner thread. We'll try and keep the DVD burner stuff there from now on.

Anyway, try this again just to make sure this wasn't a fluke. It's possible a file could have been open or something. If this fails again or does the long hang try it with only the one directory being used and let me know how that goes.

[Cayars]

Originally Posted by SteveP

Request: The single Upcoming Recording line at the bottom of the main page is a great idea. What about placing the advance/go back arrows together on the right side of the line instead of split with one arrow on each end of the line? The end result could be two arrows on the right with one pointing up and one down.

Cheers,
Steve

I don't think it would be a good idea to use up/down arrows as this could be confusing because it functions by remote/keyboard using the left/right combo. It would/could allow the bar itself to be a little wider by having both icons in the same location but I'm not sure if it would be as pleasing to the eye.

I'll try it and see.

[kevthor]

Can I make a link to either Two Pane recordings or Catagorized recordings in the main menu? I can't seem to find any internal screen that matches this nor does it have any information about these in the menu.xml file?

[Cayars]

Make sure you're looking at cayars-menu.xml

[pciccone]

(new question)

Bug or other?

If enabling new feature "use only external players for non-direct supported filetypes" (or whatever its called)....

STV will spawn WMP for DVD playback (i.e. an imported VIDEO_TS/AUDIO_TS) folder. Two problems with this, 1) sagetv does directly playback DVD files and 2) WMP does not nativly support DVDs / also the way its called it cannot open the VIDEO_TS file even if it had a DVD decoder installed.

If I DISABLE this new option, then things run correctly but break other things. Like for example it is a nice idea to call WMP for WMV files

[abasu2003]

there is a separate run external player for dvd command. i haven't actually played with this though.

[Cayars]

Originally Posted by pciccone

(new question)

Bug or other?

If enabling new feature "use only external players for non-direct supported filetypes" (or whatever its called)....

STV will spawn WMP for DVD playback (i.e. an imported VIDEO_TS/AUDIO_TS) folder. Two problems with this, 1) sagetv does directly playback DVD files and 2) WMP does not nativly support DVDs / also the way its called it cannot open the VIDEO_TS file even if it had a DVD decoder installed.

If I DISABLE this new option, then things run correctly but break other things. Like for example it is a nice idea to call WMP for WMV files

You can setup the external players seperately for Music, Video & DVD. Each can be turned on or off. To use anything other than WMP you need to edit the "***.cmd" file in the external directory under cayars.