WDTV Live transcoding hangs after few minutes (SOLVED)

[ditlew]

I found the problem, not the solution.

I took the mencoder command and ran it by hand. It reached the exact same frame and stopped, saying :"BUFFER UNDEFLOW at stream 1, raising muxrate to 55000 kb/s, delta_scr: 804". Why this doesn't happen with the PS3 as a client .. I dunno.

Do you have an idea?

*update* I don't get it ... the ps3 command looks the exact same..

[shagrath]

this error should be the same with the ps3 or the wd live, unless you are using the MPEGTSAC3 transcoder option in the renderer conf file

[ditlew]

Found the problem and fixed it

I dunno why, but I came to think of that maybe I ran my PS3 test on a different version of mencoder, so I copied mencoder_mt.exe on top of mencoder.exe and vola .. it runs perfectly! Did you add a new mencoder version recently or did I replaced yours as a test earlier on perhaps ... hmm?

I'm heading to bed now, but tomorrow I'll clean up my code and let you know what the minimun changes are for a WDTV Live client.

[ditlew]

Hi shagrath,

These are the WDTV Live support changes I would like you to include:

From BufferedOutputFile.java

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   public WaitBufferedInputStream getCurrentInputStream() {
      if (inputStreams.size() > 0)
      {
         // Ditlew - org
         //return inputStreams.get(0);
         // Ditlew - You might wanna create a new setting for this?
         // I've found other ways of making this work but this is the most simple one.
         return PMS.getConfiguration().getTrancodeKeepFirstConnections() ? inputStreams.get(0) : inputStreams.get(inputStreams.size() - 1);
      }
      else
         return null;
   }


From DNLARessource.java

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   public String getDisplayName() {
      String name = getName();
      if (this instanceof RealFile) {
         if (PMS.getConfiguration().isHideExtensions() && !isFolder())
            name = FileUtil.getFileNameWithoutExtension(name);
      }
      if (player != null) {
         if (noName)
            name = "[" + player.name() + "]";
         else {
            // Ditlew - WDTV Live don't show durations otherwize, and this is usefull for finding the main title
            // You might wanna add a setting for this.
            if (media.dvdtrack > 0)
            {
               name += " - " + media.duration;
            }

            if (!PMS.getConfiguration().isHideEngineNames()) {
               name += " [" + player.name() + "]";
            }
         }
      } else {
         if (noName)
            name = "[No encoding]";
         else if (nametruncate > 0)
            name = name.substring(0, nametruncate).trim();
      }
      
      if (srtFile && (media_audio == null && media_subtitle == null))
         if (player == null || player.isExternalSubtitlesSupported())
            name += " {External Subtitles}";
      
      if (media_audio != null)
         name = (player!=null?("[" + player.name() + "]"):"") + " {Audio: " + media_audio.getAudioCodec() + "/" + media_audio.getLang() + "}";
      
      if (media_subtitle != null && media_subtitle.id != -1)
         name += " {Sub: " + media_subtitle.getSubType() + "/" + media_subtitle.getLang() + (media_subtitle.flavor!=null?("/"+media_subtitle.flavor):"") +  "}";
      
      if (avisynth)
         name = (player!=null?("[" + player.name()):"") + " + AviSynth]";
      
      if (splitStart > 0 && splitLength > 0) {
         name = ">> " + DLNAMediaInfo.getDurationString(splitStart);
      }
      
      return name;
   }


WDTVLive.conf *I've just attached a png that can be used instead of unknown.png*

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# ps3mediaserver renderer profile for WDTV Live
# Refer to PS3.conf for help

RendererName=WD TV Live
RendererIcon=unknown.png
UserAgentSearch=INTEL_NMPR
Video=true
Audio=true
Image=true
#SeekByTime=true
SeekByTime=false
TranscodeVideo=MPEGAC3
#TranscodeVideo=MPEGTSAC3
TranscodeAudio=PCM
DefaultVBVBufSize=false
#DefaultVBVBufSize=true
MuxH264ToMpegTS=false
MuxDTSToMpeg=true
WrapDTSIntoPCM=false
MuxLPCMToMpeg=false
MaxVideoBitrateMbps=0
MaxVideoWidth=0
MaxVideoHeight=0
#TranscodedVideoFileSize=-1
#TranscodedVideoFileSize=0
#TranscodedVideoFileSize=100000000000
TranscodeExtensions=flv
StreamExtensions=avi,xvid,divx,avc,mpg,mpeg,mkv,264,ts,tp,m2t,m2ts,wmv,mp3,wav,pcm,lpcm,wma,aac,flac,mka,aif,aiff,ogg,dts


PMS.conf
transcode_keep_first_connection = false or another setting to allow the BufferOutputFile.java change to activate. If this could be a renderer conf setting it would be great.

Mencoder
The mencoder from .369 doesn't work as it should on my system, but the one from .366 do. Others must have seen this problem too, since it isn't WDTV Live specific.

[shagrath]

PMS.conf
transcode_keep_first_connection = false or another setting to allow the BufferOutputFile.java change to activate. If this could be a renderer conf setting it would be great.

this change requires some heavy method signature modification, maybe I could make a renderer setting who enable the current option for now

[ditlew]

PMS.conf
transcode_keep_first_connection = false or another setting to allow the BufferOutputFile.java change to activate. If this could be a renderer conf setting it would be great.

this change requires some heavy method signature modification, maybe I could make a renderer setting who enable the current option for now

What ever will make it work Btw, my PS3 works fine with BufferOutputFile.java change activated permantly, but I dunno if it will cause problems for some of the other renderers therefor the wish for a setting.