Stutter video on Wireless MediaMVP

[Jabroni]

Im having problems with my SageTV 5.0.4 box. When I try to watch a video with a Hauppage Wireless Media Extender (rev 2.05) I cant get any video to display properly, it plays for 3 seconds, then it stutter for like 1 or 2, then it continues, and so on. Ive tried with MPEG2 streams (which wouldnt requiere transcoding) and with DivX, with same results. The wireless MediaMVP has 3 bars of signal strenght with ~ -60db of gain. For tests I ran the Hauppage media software for streaming, and that app worked flawlessly to broadcast divx from my computer (with sage shut off)

Specs:
AMD XP 2400+
512 ram
Ati Radeon 9500 PRO connected via HDTV

Any idea what could be wrong?? I tried formatting the machine and still have the same probs.

[InvisiblePin]

I don't recall ever having the problem with the canned software that came with my wireless MVP. Key question is, does the canned Hauppauge software deal with potential wireless snags better than Sage, or does wireless have nothing to do with it?

You may want to try the same thing I'm going to try (not sure when I'll get around to it), that is buy a hard wire to connect the router to the MVP and use it on a TV that is located close to the router. Until I try this, I'm not convinced it's a wireless issue. If this does indeed fix the problem, I'm lucky enough that the two TV's I want to use are close enough to use hard wires.

Good luck.

InvisiblePin

[Deadbolt]

Originally Posted by Jabroni

Im having problems with my SageTV 5.0.4 box. When I try to watch a video with a Hauppage Wireless Media Extender (rev 2.05) I cant get any video to display properly, it plays for 3 seconds, then it stutter for like 1 or 2, then it continues, and so on. Ive tried with MPEG2 streams (which wouldnt requiere transcoding) and with DivX, with same results. The wireless MediaMVP has 3 bars of signal strenght with ~ -60db of gain. For tests I ran the Hauppage media software for streaming, and that app worked flawlessly to broadcast divx from my computer (with sage shut off)

Specs:
AMD XP 2400+
512 ram
Ati Radeon 9500 PRO connected via HDTV

Any idea what could be wrong?? I tried formatting the machine and still have the same probs.

Have you tried increasing the buffer number and size:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Frey Technologies\Common\DSFilters\MpegDeMux Buffersize & NumBuffers

This worked for me....I use:
BufferSize of 262144 and NumBuffers 256

FYI - I'm not sure if it matters but I stopped the SageTV service before making these changes. Also, I do know you will need to reboot for them to take affect.

[Jabroni]

Thanks, that did helped a bit.. but video still freezes Dev teams any other idea or tweaks I can do to the sagetv to make improve of maybe debug my situation???

Meanwhile I'll do some other tests todays and see if I can get it work correctly.

Question.. does the mediamvp uses TCP or UDP for media transmission??

[tmiranda]

I also have problems with the MVP freezing. I've already submitted a bug report and sent my logs and example MPEGs to Sage. The developers started looking at them earlier this week. I'll let you know when I hear more.

My freeze has something to do with using the nVidia DualTV card. MPEGs produced by my Hauppauge cards are fine but all the MPEGs from the DualTV freeze at 5:25 into the clip.....

[tmiranda]

Support has provided a new MVP.BIN for me. I have not done extensive testing but on the surface this seems to solve my MVP freeze at 5:25.

Download the MVP.BIN from here:

http://download.sagetv.com/~jeanfrancois/alpha/mvp.bin

This might be the same MVP.BIN being discussed in the "blinking bootup" thread.

Good luck!