RE: CinemaSix 1.1 Beta Ready

VLC doesn't throttle the bitstream at all when I pause, so this is a
problem that I can only fix by making modifications to VLC (which I plan
to do, but not in the immediate future).

Instead, I spent a long long time last night working on getting really
good support for PS video.  Version 1.2 Beta was released last night /
this morning (see my e-mail from 6:00am).  It has vastly improved support
for PS (especially DVDs).  At this point, I'd have to recommend that
playing DVDs directly in CinemaSix over a share is the best way to go (at
least for a while :-)


Sujal

On Wed, 7 Jul 2004, Ron wrote:

> Sujul - 
> 
> I had an opportunity to watch a 1 hour PS video both on the computer and via
> vlc/http/HD1000.  I noticed that there were rather large gaps in the HD1000
> viewing.  It seemed to be associated with the "pause" function.  Going by
> the activity lights on the network switch and what I saw on the screen,
> little, if anything is lost during the pause itself.  It turned out that a
> couple of minutes were being lost each time the 'rotate' button was pressed,
> after a pause, to re-establish the audio stream.  Is this something that can
> be fixed in the future? 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [email protected] [mailto:roku-tech-
> > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Sujal Patel
> > Sent: Tuesday, July 06, 2004 2:06 AM
> > To: [email protected]
> > Subject: [Roku-tech] CinemaSix 1.1 Beta Ready
> > 
> > 
> > I've fixed a bunch of bugs and just released 1.1 beta.  You can get it
> > here:
> > 
> > http://www.up.org/cinemasix
> > 
> > 
> > Here is a summary of the changes:
> > 
> >   - HTTP streaming now reconnects when the network is disrupted, you press
> >     pause for too long, or the playlist moves to the next file.  It
> >     attempts to reconnect for about 5 seconds.  After a reconnect, you may
> >     need to press "ROTATE" to knock it back in sync.  I need to make this
> >     much better in the future, but it will require adding code to
> VideoLan.
> > 
> >   - DVD lipsync seems better since I added a bunch of code to handle
> >     problems in the stream like timestamps going backwards.
> > 
> >   - Bug fix: Aspect ratio isn't reset by decoder reinits
> > 
> >   - PCR's are now used to reconstruct the source audio timeline for live
> >     streaming and TS file playback.  Translation:  Lipsync for some long
> >     movies will be better!
> > 
> > Here is what I need from you folks.  I need three things in particular
> > tested by the masses:
> >   - Did non-streamed DVD playback get better from 1.0 to 1.1 wrt
> >     lipsync?  Have you ever seen CinemaSix (any version) do better?  Test
> >     with both digital output on and off.
> >   - Did TS file lipsync get better (if problems occured in 1.0)?  Please
> >     send e-mail if StreamPlayer can play a clip correctly and CinemaSix
> > can't.
> >   - Did HTTP streaming reconnect fix the problems you've been seeing.
> > 
> > 
> > Sujal
> > 
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