CinemaSix... nearly perfect now! Thanks Sujal!

[Ron]

I have a wireless laptop in my home theater (oh, ok, my tv room) and I am
running XP's remote desktop on the laptop and the computer that is running
vlc. Using the remote desktop I can select the video I want to watch and,
in most cases, move freely to any position in that video by moving vlc's
slider. The resulting video and AC-3 audio are excellent. My only
remaining problem (other than the occasional crash, etc.), is the fact that
pause doesn't work for more than a few seconds. For the first time since
buying my HD1000 I can truly enjoy movies served from the computer. Many
thanks to Sujal for the hard work that made this day possible!

[Barry]

I started playing with VLC to get around the Lip Sync problem. Am I doing something stupid ?? If I tell vlc to stream 1.vob, 2.vob etc vlc plays it fine, but CinemaSix drops back to the menu on file change.
..Barry

----- Original Message -----
From: Ron
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Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 2004 8:17 AM
Subject: [Roku-tech] CinemaSix... nearly perfect now! Thanks Sujal!


I have a wireless laptop in my home theater (oh, ok, my tv room) and I am running XP's remote desktop on the laptop and the computer that is running vlc. Using the remote desktop I can select the video I want to watch and, in most cases, move freely to any position in that video by moving vlc's slider. The resulting video and AC-3 audio are excellent. My only remaining problem (other than the occasional crash, etc.), is the fact that pause doesn't work for more than a few seconds. For the first time since buying my HD1000 I can truly enjoy movies served from the computer. Many thanks to Sujal for the hard work that made this day possible!

[Ron]

I've only played TS files so far, but have found the slightest pause in the
stream, such as changing files, will cause CinemaSix to drop back to the
menu. It also does this if you hit the pause on the remote for more than a
few seconds, or if you pause VLC. I don't know if this 'timeout' is
something Sujal is doing or something inherent in the HD1000. I've posted a
message to Sujal to see what he has to say. Hopefully it is something he
can control.







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From: roku-tech-***@lists.rokulabs.com
[mailto:roku-tech-***@lists.rokulabs.com] On Behalf Of Barry
Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 2004 9:49 PM
To: Roku Tech Mail List and Discussion Group
Subject: Re: [Roku-tech] CinemaSix... nearly perfect now! Thanks Sujal!



I started playing with VLC to get around the Lip Sync problem. Am I doing
something stupid ?? If I tell vlc to stream 1.vob, 2.vob etc vlc plays it
fine, but CinemaSix drops back to the menu on file change.

..Barry



----- Original Message -----

From: Ron <mailto:***@transco.com>

To: roku-***@lists.rokulabs.com

Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 2004 8:17 AM

Subject: [Roku-tech] CinemaSix... nearly perfect now! Thanks Sujal!



I have a wireless laptop in my home theater (oh, ok, my tv room) and I am
running XP's remote desktop on the laptop and the computer that is running
vlc. Using the remote desktop I can select the video I want to watch and,
in most cases, move freely to any position in that video by moving vlc's
slider. The resulting video and AC-3 audio are excellent. My only
remaining problem (other than the occasional crash, etc.), is the fact that
pause doesn't work for more than a few seconds. For the first time since
buying my HD1000 I can truly enjoy movies served from the computer. Many
thanks to Sujal for the hard work that made this day possible!


_____

[Rabi Satter]

What version of VLC? The latest version of VLC HTTP was broken so try using
0.7.1. I have had no problems with older CinemaSix clients in this
configuration. I will try to test the latest one this weekend when I have a
large amount of time to devote to it.



_____

From: Barry [mailto:***@cox.net]
Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 2004 11:49 PM
To: Roku Tech Mail List and Discussion Group
Subject: Re: [Roku-tech] CinemaSix... nearly perfect now! Thanks Sujal!



I started playing with VLC to get around the Lip Sync problem. Am I doing
something stupid ?? If I tell vlc to stream 1.vob, 2.vob etc vlc plays it
fine, but CinemaSix drops back to the menu on file change.

..Barry



----- Original Message -----

From: Ron <mailto:***@transco.com>

To: roku-***@lists.rokulabs.com

Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 2004 8:17 AM

Subject: [Roku-tech] CinemaSix... nearly perfect now! Thanks Sujal!



I have a wireless laptop in my home theater (oh, ok, my tv room) and I am
running XP's remote desktop on the laptop and the computer that is running
vlc. Using the remote desktop I can select the video I want to watch and,
in most cases, move freely to any position in that video by moving vlc's
slider. The resulting video and AC-3 audio are excellent. My only
remaining problem (other than the occasional crash, etc.), is the fact that
pause doesn't work for more than a few seconds. For the first time since
buying my HD1000 I can truly enjoy movies served from the computer. Many
thanks to Sujal for the hard work that made this day possible!


_____

[Sujal Patel]

I went through the networking problems today and here is where I'm at:

- VLC disconnects between playlist items. As far as I can tell, the VLC
player disconnects too. I've added code that attempts reconnect, so
this will work in the next release, but I'm not sure it's a great idea
since VLC doesn't even intend this to work.
- Network issues are dealt with better by attempting reconnecting up to 3
times over 5 seconds before dying. You may require a "ROTATE" after
the reset, this will be fixed in a future release hopefully. This code
will be in the next release
- Pause will not work well while streaming. VLC doesn't throttle the
stream based on the blocked http connection. In fact, it starts the
stream even before the first http stream connects up. I think I'm
going to have to write a VLC-side component to make this work well
(much like the software that the SoundBridge will use to transcode audio)

CVS will be up to date tonight for those that are adventerous. I'm gonna
shoot for a dot release by the end of the week (and then I'm on vacation
for 10 days!).


Sujal

Post by Barry
I started playing with VLC to get around the Lip Sync problem. Am I doing something stupid ?? If I tell vlc to stream 1.vob, 2.vob etc vlc plays it fine, but CinemaSix drops back to the menu on file change.
..Barry
----- Original Message -----
From: Ron
Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 2004 8:17 AM
Subject: [Roku-tech] CinemaSix... nearly perfect now! Thanks Sujal!
I have a wireless laptop in my home theater (oh, ok, my tv room) and I am running XP's remote desktop on the laptop and the computer that is running vlc. Using the remote desktop I can select the video I want to watch and, in most cases, move freely to any position in that video by moving vlc's slider. The resulting video and AC-3 audio are excellent. My only remaining problem (other than the occasional crash, etc.), is the fact that pause doesn't work for more than a few seconds. For the first time since buying my HD1000 I can truly enjoy movies served from the computer. Many thanks to Sujal for the hard work that made this day possible!
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[Sujal Patel]

I haven't done enough testing on streaming to find these problems, so
thanks for being my guinea pigs :-)

I'm only home for 6 days (next week) until July 20, so I'll try to get
these streaming bugs hammered out then. There is little chance that I can
make much progress on PS support in that short period of time, so I'll
focus on streaming and I'm sure we can hammer out many of these bugs.

If anyone has some time, I'd appreciate some help on VLC. I need to
figure out how to get VLC to stream via HTTP and control the stream (i.e.
pause, seek) via the HTTP interface. I can either stream, or control a
locally played back stream via the HTTP interface, but not both. If we
can figure this out, then seek will be easy to implement from there.

Sujal

Post by Ron
menu. It also does this if you hit the pause on the remote for more than a
few seconds, or if you pause VLC. I don't know if this 'timeout' is
something Sujal is doing or something inherent in the HD1000. I've posted a
message to Sujal to see what he has to say. Hopefully it is something he
can control.
-----Original Message-----
Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 2004 9:49 PM
To: Roku Tech Mail List and Discussion Group
Subject: Re: [Roku-tech] CinemaSix... nearly perfect now! Thanks Sujal!
I started playing with VLC to get around the Lip Sync problem. Am I doing
something stupid ?? If I tell vlc to stream 1.vob, 2.vob etc vlc plays it
fine, but CinemaSix drops back to the menu on file change.
..Barry
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 2004 8:17 AM
Subject: [Roku-tech] CinemaSix... nearly perfect now! Thanks Sujal!
I have a wireless laptop in my home theater (oh, ok, my tv room) and I am
running XP's remote desktop on the laptop and the computer that is running
vlc. Using the remote desktop I can select the video I want to watch and,
in most cases, move freely to any position in that video by moving vlc's
slider. The resulting video and AC-3 audio are excellent. My only
remaining problem (other than the occasional crash, etc.), is the fact that
pause doesn't work for more than a few seconds. For the first time since
buying my HD1000 I can truly enjoy movies served from the computer. Many
thanks to Sujal for the hard work that made this day possible!
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[Ron]

I'm using 0.7.1



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[mailto:roku-tech-***@lists.rokulabs.com] On Behalf Of Rabi Satter
Sent: Thursday, July 01, 2004 5:34 AM
To: 'Roku Tech Mail List and Discussion Group'
Subject: RE: [Roku-tech] CinemaSix... nearly perfect now! Thanks Sujal!



What version of VLC? The latest version of VLC HTTP was broken so try using
0.7.1. I have had no problems with older CinemaSix clients in this
configuration. I will try to test the latest one this weekend when I have a
large amount of time to devote to it.



_____

From: Barry [mailto:***@cox.net]
Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 2004 11:49 PM
To: Roku Tech Mail List and Discussion Group
Subject: Re: [Roku-tech] CinemaSix... nearly perfect now! Thanks Sujal!



I started playing with VLC to get around the Lip Sync problem. Am I doing
something stupid ?? If I tell vlc to stream 1.vob, 2.vob etc vlc plays it
fine, but CinemaSix drops back to the menu on file change.

..Barry



----- Original Message -----

From: Ron <mailto:***@transco.com>

To: roku-***@lists.rokulabs.com

Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 2004 8:17 AM

Subject: [Roku-tech] CinemaSix... nearly perfect now! Thanks Sujal!



I have a wireless laptop in my home theater (oh, ok, my tv room) and I am
running XP's remote desktop on the laptop and the computer that is running
vlc. Using the remote desktop I can select the video I want to watch and,
in most cases, move freely to any position in that video by moving vlc's
slider. The resulting video and AC-3 audio are excellent. My only
remaining problem (other than the occasional crash, etc.), is the fact that
pause doesn't work for more than a few seconds. For the first time since
buying my HD1000 I can truly enjoy movies served from the computer. Many
thanks to Sujal for the hard work that made this day possible!


_____

[Rabi Satter]

What settings are you using?

This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
I'm using 0.7.1
-----Original Message-----

Satter

Sent: Thursday, July 01, 2004 5:34 AM
To: 'Roku Tech Mail List and Discussion Group'
Subject: RE: [Roku-tech] CinemaSix... nearly perfect now! Thanks

Sujal!

What version of VLC? The latest version of VLC HTTP was broken so

try using

0.7.1. I have had no problems with older CinemaSix clients in this
configuration. I will try to test the latest one this weekend when I

have a

large amount of time to devote to it.
_____
Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 2004 11:49 PM
To: Roku Tech Mail List and Discussion Group
Subject: Re: [Roku-tech] CinemaSix... nearly perfect now! Thanks

Sujal!

I started playing with VLC to get around the Lip Sync problem. Am I

doing

something stupid ?? If I tell vlc to stream 1.vob, 2.vob etc vlc

plays it

fine, but CinemaSix drops back to the menu on file change.
..Barry
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 2004 8:17 AM
Subject: [Roku-tech] CinemaSix... nearly perfect now! Thanks Sujal!
I have a wireless laptop in my home theater (oh, ok, my tv room) and

I am

running XP's remote desktop on the laptop and the computer that is

running

vlc. Using the remote desktop I can select the video I want to

watch and,

in most cases, move freely to any position in that video by moving

vlc's

slider. The resulting video and AC-3 audio are excellent. My only
remaining problem (other than the occasional crash, etc.), is the

fact that

pause doesn't work for more than a few seconds. For the first time

since

buying my HD1000 I can truly enjoy movies served from the computer.

Many

thanks to Sujal for the hard work that made this day possible!
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