H.264 playback in 6.1.6RC

[HawgGuy]

Originally Posted by HawgGuy

Originally Posted by HawgGuy
Well, I purchased and installed the Cyberlink H.264 software. Now, when tuning to a station (NFL-HD) with an H.264 stream at least I no longer get a playback error, but there's no video or audio.

Originally Posted by Narflex

That's odd. Can you try it with different video renderers and with 3D on/off to see if you get a picture then? The logfile didn't really show anything wrong.

Tried various combinations - VMR, Overlay, even uninstalled Purevideo. Same results. I now hear audio, and there is no error message from Sage, but no video.

When I render a H.264 file with GraphEdit it looks fine. Uses the Cyberlink Demux, H.264 video codec and AC3 audio. Though WMP 10 shows a blank screen as well. So the problem may not be SageTV.

[bcjenkins]

Originally Posted by HawgGuy

Tried various combinations - VMR, Overlay, even uninstalled Purevideo. Same results. I now hear audio, and there is no error message from Sage, but no video.

When I render a H.264 file with GraphEdit it looks fine. Uses the Cyberlink Demux, H.264 video codec and AC3 audio. Though WMP 10 shows a blank screen as well. So the problem may not be SageTV.

Have you tried CoreAVC before? Or if you do that it won't work on the TV stream?

[donkey]

upload a clip with a sage log for reproducing problem.

[HawgGuy]

Originally Posted by bcjenkins

Have you tried CoreAVC before? Or if you do that it won't work on the TV stream?

I was going to try CoreAVC, but it seems their website/download "will be back in a few days" for the past week or so.

Originally Posted by donkey

upload a clip with a sage log for reproducing problem.

I uploaded a log to the ftp site, I'll work at capturing a _small_ clip as well.

[jkohn]

I'm happy to report that SageTV now plays H.264 on my system with PowerDVD Ultra 7.1 installed.

[HawgGuy]

Originally Posted by jkohn

I'm happy to report that SageTV now plays H.264 on my system with PowerDVD Ultra 7.1 installed.

What is the source of the video? I can only get audio if I tune to an H.264 station on my r5000HD.

[Motofreak75]

I dont think this is a sagetv issue rather than Cyberlink issue, I'm Using Power DVD7 build 2414 in fresh install of Vista (and tried XP) installed I can't play any H.264 files at all in any media player with Cyberlink software installed. Once I install a trial demo of Lead H.264 decoders then it works. Or I load a H.264 file into my encoder program and I can view them without any issues.

I have all ready contacted Cyberlink support by phone and talked to a useless guy, but I am waiting Second tier support to call me back on this issue. And I have supplied them a few sample H.264 files for them to look at and us get this bug fixed.

[jkohn]

Originally Posted by HawgGuy

What is the source of the video? I can only get audio if I tune to an H.264 station on my r5000HD.

I don't have an r5000HD, these files are from SkyHD broadcasts.

[jkohn]

I dont think this is a sagetv issue rather than Cyberlink issue, I'm Using Power DVD7 build 2414 in fresh install of Vista (and tried XP) installed I can't play any H.264 files at all in any media player with Cyberlink software installed.

Maybe the difference is that I'm running 7.1 Ultra (the HD-DVD version). I'm not recommending buying 7.1 for H.264 playback though, it's overpriced and buggy. I just already have it since I have an XBox 360 HD-DVD drive.

[Lucas]

Just installed 6.1.6. h264 works fine on my P4 3Ghz CPU with Power DVD 7 (version that came with technotrend S3200 DVB-S2 card).

I get 100% CPU utilisation with some frames dropped but this is definetely CPU related....

Even the BBC HD clips play!
Bravo SageTV!