vu+ duo

Been using Vix since Vix 1.00 to version 2.2 with little or no problems. Excellent image constantly being updated and improved on. All for free.

irishchris wrote: »

Thanks for the comment and thankfully it is the sentiment of the majority of the users we have and reason we still bother doing thus as a free hobby. Also appreciate dnme and few others gave different opinions and with the likes of dreamelite pli and others there are plenty of images to change to until people find their preferred one.also without these image makers there would only be the stick image which is also available to download and perhaps some may find better?
@ dnme if you pm sicilian I'm sure he would have no hesitation in giving your few euro voluntary donation back.
@rob the voluntary contribution was introduced for people if they wished to pledge few euro they could and if they did not wish to that is no problem as most don't. It is merely there to assist in site hosting costs, additional hardware eg nova tuners, smargo readers and such for testing and coding software to them as in the early days the team bought them themselves out of their own pocket. Like me I paid 96 euro in early days for sundtek tuners to begin coding and testing.

Your're missing my point though ...

The owner of the forum and the owner of the shop is one of the same ... has access to any stock that the 'team' need .. so no need for a donation system.

Most if not all forums that are run by shops have no donation system its part of the support function of the shop that help sales.

I think most of us that has been involved in coding/testing etc has spent alot of money in this hobby for the benefit of the hobby .. thats whats great about it ... just don't like to see abuse of the hobby for commercial purposes.

Anyway its all about the hobby and i'm sure we all do what we do with the greatest of intentions

What is the make/model of the USB DTT (Saorview) tuner people are buying for the VU+Duo ?

Quick question for anyone,

I'm playing avi's on my VU+Duo that live on a network drive. If I stop a file and play it again later, it "resumes playback" at the place I stopped it.

What if I just want to play th efile from the start?
How do I disable this "resume playback"?
(rewinding only seems to go at 2x no matter what speed I set, and network files dont want to rewind all the way).

irishchris wrote: »

Not at my vu duo now to check and can't think off hand.but if you are using vix recordings player then press menu while in recordings list and there is an option to reset playback positions If I recall correctly.

Thats the puppy, god bless ya

irishchris wrote: »

No probs glad to help.

well it worked the first time, but ever since it just doesn't. Also when I pause a vid with sound muted for a while, after I unpause, I cannot get the sound back, I have to stop the vid, go out to TV and press vol +- a few times.

more bugs under more carpets

I have picons and epg on mounted usb stick, works fine.

dnme wrote: »

well it worked the first time, but ever since it just doesn't. Also when I pause a vid with sound muted for a while, after I unpause, I cannot get the sound back, I have to stop the vid, go out to TV and press vol +- a few times.

more bugs under more carpets

Why don't you use another image?

Say, take the PLI image (which VIX is based on) and customise to exactly how you want it?

guff daddy wrote: »

I had the same problem - constant spinner but no crash/crashlog when switching from sat to DTT.

I had my timeshift recording to a USB drive and it may be that the system isn't able to handle driving two USB devices simultaneously. Certainly when I moved the permanent time shift back to the main HDD the problem disappeared.

+1 on this!
VIX still has known memory management issues when using using swap/EPG/picon/Timeshift on USB stick.
Its improved a lot compared to 2.0 and 2.1 but when I used I USB for those I had constant hanging even without a DTT tuner

But by moving everything to the HDD it seems to have eliminated the hanging(Apart from the occasional glitch when swapping back from DTT, Or the occasional total freeze on DTT) and enabling PTS to my HDD eliminates any delay on waiting for the drive to spin up for Picon/EPG on channel change.
Dropping the USB key makes VIX 2.+ a lot smoother.

I'm still swopping between VIX and OpenPLI.....
I like the customisation I can achieve in PLI but it means anyone else using my Vu+ doesn't have a clue what to do
Whereas with VIX I have a mostly stable image that is very user intuitive/friendly and even now when its running a beta skin is still stable(apart from DTT to Sat change)

My only major gripe currently is the DTS audio being a bit hit and miss.
Often I'll start a movie, no audio will be output until I stop playback return to the movielist and then start playback again......
However much as I'd like to jump on the its the image bandwagon
Its a driver issue that has happened to me with PLI, BH and VTI images too.....I just hope the next Vu+ driver update sorts it.

guff daddy wrote: »

I don't think it is memory management but more likely USB power issues. I still have EPG, swap and Picons on the USB stick - I have just moved the PTS to HDD and it has improved 100%

There is a memory management issue, its not a guess its a fact that the PLI and VIX developers are aware of and actively try to minimise(Although I've heard no talk from VIX developers on the issue since 2.2).
Plenty of people were having spinning timers when the only USB device used was a USB key.

Now that said there is an issue with the Vu+ not supplying full 5v/500ma power to all USB ports but this isn't an image issue, rather a hardware design issue whereby the USB ports share the 5v/500ma supply rather than each supply 5v/500ma per port as if the are a hub rather than individual ports.

With USB sticks and 2.5'' HDD enclosures this isnt really an issue as they will draw enough current to cause a problem.
I'm not sure what the power draw of a DTT device is but if the draw of combined devices on USB bus exceeds 500ma then the Bus will power down and reboot the devices which would cause the software to FUBAR
I agree with you on that score, that if the combined draw of the DTT and USB key exceeds 500ma it will cause the box to shut down power to the USB ports and the power cycle will cause the box software to hang and glitch regardless of the image used.

I must try find out what the combined draw of those devices is now.....I'm curious!

Gunther_Gloop wrote: »

I'm not sure I understand what the problem was, but are you two talking about being able to play movie files from a PC hdd via the network on the Duo?

I've searched for "vix recordings player" but can't find details. I've looked in Plugins on the Duo, but the closest thing I can see is the VLC player (whatever it's called). I tried that, but it resulted in a crash whenever I tried running it. Could be the settings I used, but since I could no longer run it to be able to change the settings I removed it.

Am I in the right place? Is this even possible? If so, does it only play AVIs?

Gunther I took it to mean the built in VIX media player ie. the screen that pops up on pressing list(I could be wrong)
As for playing back files from the PC all you need to do is use the Network Mount manager to map the PC drive/folders to the Vu+.
As for playback I use mine for avi, mkv and divx from my network drive with no problems.

kierank01 wrote: »

Does anyone have an issue downloading the rytec epg?

It attempts to start downloading the following file:

www.xmltvepg.be/rytecxmltvuk.gz

It get about 1/4 way across, and then stops. I left it for 5+ minutes, but it didn't move on.

I tried to download that file from a browser, and had the same issue.

I am on a 3g connection shared over wifi to a dd-wrt router setup as a wireless ethernet bridge, which has been working all along.

Why not just set the rytec uk epg to download daily from the plugin?

Thats what I do and works well so far.

@irishchris - I posted that channel/bouquet problem in that forum.

I went reading back about a month or so and noticed that someone else had also posted the same problem but nobody replied.

kierank01 wrote: »

But if I download manually or automatically, it stops 1/4 of the way through.

I don't download daily, because I have a 2 gig data limit per month, and all those downloads add up...

I dont know how big the 7 day download is but I wouldnt have thought it could be that big as some people do not have internal hdd and download to flash which isnt that big. I think the download is a bit stupid as instead of just downloading the next available day it actually downloads all 7 days even though you already have 6 of them downloaded from the previous download if you understand me? Seems like something they need to work on. Can you download to your laptop instead of the VU and then try ftp the file to the box?

Actually I'm a big fan of the VIX image (using 2.1)
The issues I have are 1 - EPG on DTT that recently changed and impacts lots of other receivers and 2 - The EPG Source that Rytec uses for RTE1+1 etc thats gone off air. These arent Vixs fault. Maybe they could do a solution for the DTT EPG.

My box works 100% 100% of the time...

One old issue I had with DTT recording crashing on NovaT I have sussed as it does the same with Sundtek. I download lots of CNET and Revision3 video from web with PC during the night and watch on Duo. This is the cause, if I watch 10+ clips then record on DTT it crashes DTT. If I watch clips, reboot, then its fine. The Video playback must be hitting performance. Following this rule I havent had a freeze in months.

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dnme wrote: »

+1

Vix is a serious pile of crap. Every aspect of it is buggy. I've just had to restart it again in order to get it to recognise my HDD which it regularly looses inexplicably. I tolerate it for the epg but even that is packed to the hilt with problems. I seriously think I'll throw it out, it's just truly awful.

Thanks givecredit.
I assume you mean its OK over the air ?


Also rytec have changed the source of missing DTT channels to www.tvguide.co.uk so they are now populating there too.

givecredit wrote: »

The EPG issue seems to have resolved itself. Everything fine again on DTT epg. Fingers crossed....