MediaPortal 1.1.0 RC6 RELEASED!

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dale77

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#63850 3-Jul-2010 10:09

"RC5 was planned to be the last Release Candidate for MediaPortal 1.1.0 final. However, the fix of a major issue related to the detection of a timeshift buffer file being video or radio makes us believe that a big field test is required to ensure that 1.1.0 final will be the most stable release in MediaPortal´s six year history."

http://www.team-mediaportal.com/news/global/mediaportal_1.1.0_rc6_released!.html

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#347545 3-Jul-2010 18:48

Is it recommended to use windows 7 32bit for the upcoming final version?

dale77

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#347573 3-Jul-2010 22:07

I'm not aware of any recommended platform for MP. Windows 7 was actually warned against for MP 1.0.

That said, I think Win7 compatibility was a focus for 1.1 release.

dale77

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#347574 3-Jul-2010 22:12

Just had another go with MP1.1RC, 6 this time.

Once again, I saw strange random stutters in playback. Relatively rare, but definitely present. Skipping back 15 seconds and re-watching the effected footage does not show the same stutter, so it is not in the stream itself.

This is a shame, but it looks like I'm going to be on 1.0.2 for a while.

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#347663 4-Jul-2010 12:54

@dale77: I get "stutters" (more like jerky playback - no pixelation, but like frames are being dropped) like that with 1.0.2 occasionally and just thought it must be me or my setup at fault! It is like the TV server is still writing the ts file while the client wants to display it. I don't know how that could possibly happen as this "error" sometimes happens to me after watching a particular channel for half an hour or more. Perhaps it is when the TV server starts a new timeshift file? Anyhow I don't know for sure that what I am describing is what you are seeing. You might try changing the number or size of timeshift files that are written by the TV server.

dale77

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#347696 4-Jul-2010 15:44

With 1.0.2 the only video problems I have are rare incidents of pixelation that are in the recorded stream.

The 1.1RC6 experience on the same hardware is annoying, but unfortunately I don't really have the time to nail it down. And yes I think it is a sudden temporary framerate drop. But it doesn't just happen in livetv, it happened rewatching recordings as well.

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#348805 7-Jul-2010 17:02

Went to RC6 from RC5 the other day, recorded the football last night to find it jerking like mad when I came to watch it this morning :(

Ive had the odd problem with a jerky picture when recording SBS via DVB-S but all my DVB-T recordings have been rock steady up until now.

dale77

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#348819 7-Jul-2010 18:14

At the moment I think the MP devs are in denial.

Perhaps you could go over to the mp forum and put in a bug report?

http://forum.team-mediaportal.com/mediaportal-1-1-0-rc-3-6-519/

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mcraenz

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#349247 8-Jul-2010 21:11

dale77: At the moment I think the MP devs are in denial.

Have been running RC6 since it came out and have had zero issues so far.Maybe using a NVIDIA card is the key. It's only an old 8600 though.

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#349271 8-Jul-2010 21:56

mcraenz:
dale77: At the moment I think the MP devs are in denial.

Have been running RC6 since it came out and have had zero issues so far.Maybe using a NVIDIA card is the key. It's only an old 8600 though.

How is your 1080i playback, regarding stutter with the newer versions? Are you using an older version of MP?

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dale77

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#349294 8-Jul-2010 22:23

mcraenz:
dale77: At the moment I think the MP devs are in denial.

Have been running RC6 since it came out and have had zero issues so far.Maybe using a NVIDIA card is the key. It's only an old 8600 though.

Could be the nvidia. Or perhaps your CPU? Maybe the OS or codecs?

The point being 1.1Rc4+ doesn't work so good as 1.0.2 on the *same* configuration for some of us. Going from 1.0 to 1.1 shouldn't be a downgrade. But I'm happy it works fine for you, that's good to know.

dale77

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#349304 8-Jul-2010 22:33

No response to this guy's post.

http://forum.team-mediaportal.com/mediaportal-1-1-0-rc-3-6-519/stuttering-live-tv-since-rc-84189/

He's using a Nvidia 9300 onboard.

mcraenz

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#349437 9-Jul-2010 12:11

1080i, I guess that's just TV3? Yes? The only thing I've since about RC4 is that the audio is now in sync. Not stuttering issues. Occasionally I get a small problem but I've always confirmed that as reception issue because it's in the stream when I go back and that is normally when the weather is very bad.

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#349455 9-Jul-2010 12:50

I am also getting the stuttering/pixelation at random times.
I am still on RC4 though.
No HD here either just DVB-S Freeview.
I can also rewind and watch the same part again and the problem won't be there.

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geekPete

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#349480 9-Jul-2010 13:54

I've just upgraded from RC4 to RC6 last night, and playback has turned to crap. Massive pixelation.

I'm running WinXP sp3 32-bit with nvidia 8600GT (latest drivers) on an AMD x2 4000+, 4GB RAM.

Turns out that, after firing up GraphStudio and connecting to the remote DirectX graph, MP is now using the rubbish "MPC Video Decoder" instead of my previous preferred "ArcSoft Video Decoder". This is regardless of the MP Config Settings, and even after I have set the merit of "Arcsoft Video Decoder" to "preferred".

Have unregistered "MPC Video Decoder" (manually, using "regsvr32 -u" command) and it obviously no longer uses it. Instead it chooses CoreAVC - which is OK but doesn't use HW acceleration (CUDA acc crashes too often), unlike the Arcsoft.

Have done a system restore to just before the upgrade(?), but still the same problem. The only other thing that I did prior to RC6 was install the June 2010 update of DX9c.

So my advice to those seeing problems is: Check if your MP preferred codec is actually the one being used (use GraphStudio.exe > File > Connect to remote graph; or a similar program)

It would be interesting to see if anyone else is exhibiting the same behaviour...?

Meanwhile, I'm going to uninstall MP completely, and revert back to RC4; and fire up GBPVR 1.4.7. and see if the problem exists there too (in which case it may be nothing to do with MP and DirectShow is at fault). I'll report back with results.

dale77

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#349598 9-Jul-2010 17:08

So my advice to those seeing problems is: Check if your MP preferred codec is actually the one being used (use GraphStudio.exe > File > Connect to remote graph; or a similar program)

Last time I tried to do that a long time ago, graphstudio whould never show any remote graphs to connect to. At the time I put it down to a Vista (UAC?) issue...

If MP is using a different codec other than the one I tell it to, this could indeed be the problem. Because I know that the "default" cyberlink codec exhibits the same stutter problems under 1.0.2...

Any tips on getting GraphStudio to work?

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