[vdr] Re: Mediamvp

[Dominic Morris <dom@suborbital.org.uk>]

On Wed, 29 Sep 2004, Lars Fredriksson wrote:

> I have found my Hauppauge MediaMVP again ;-) and I'm trying to get it
> working with the mediamvp-plugin! But I'm having som trouble ... I'm
> most intrested of getting the "mvp"-plugin to work, because I only have
> one DVB-card and a lot of the channels I'm watching uses subtitles. But
> I can't get it working! If I load it I only get a black screen on my
> MVP, if I turns off the MVP and starts it again I first get the progress
> bar and Contacting ..., and the the progressbar disappears and nothing
> more happens!

Ah, well the mvp plugin won't help you with subtitles. In fact, it really
won't help you with much! In order to get the video stream going I think
you have to press a key on the remote.

The "mvp" (as opposed to the "mediamvp") plugin is dead, it was a poc that 
didn't work too well.

> I'm now trying the mediamvp-plugin - but with that I really often (50%)
> of the channel switches only gets a black screen on the MVP, and the
> only way to get it working again is to switch it off/on using the
> remote. I don't know if it has something to do with that channel
> switching takes about 3-4 seconds?

I think that's due to timeshared channels? Maybe I should stick in a check 
for video PID being 0 and work around it that way.

BTW, channel switching is fairly quick, but the MVP buffers about 2-3 
seconds which makes it appear slow!

cheers,

d.