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    Icon14 PRIORITY MANAGER V1.6 BY BUYUKBANG : Complete Tool to Power Up Azbox

    PRIORITY MANAGER V1.6 BY BUYUKBANG




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    DESCRIPTION:
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    This plugin is written by BUYUKBANG to improve total performance of Azbox HD and add some
    missing features! However its name remains as "Priority Manager", it now makes more than
    its name offers. Here are the features of Priority Manager:

    * Priority Manager automatically changes the priorities of the processes to give optimal
    performance for the menu being used. I tested all processes one by one, decided their
    effects on the performance of all modules and prepared a bug-free (hopefully) and complex
    logic to cover all possible usage cases.

    * Priority Manager provides power saving! Smudger's power measurements show that
    Priority Manager decrease power consumption of the box from 25W to 23W while watching an
    SD channel and from 28W to 24W while watching an HD channel.

    * Priority Manager provides password protected hidden channel list feature. This will
    cover missing function in Azbox and so that you will be able to prepare a separate hidden
    channel list which you want hide from people not knowing your password. Default channel
    list will be automatically replaced, so that any reboots / electricity problems will not
    reveal this second channel list.

    * Priority Manager can move plugins to internal HDD or USB storages.

    * Priority Manager upgrades Busybox from v1.0 to v1.16.

    * Priority Manager enables Cron usage.

    * Priority Manager optionally automatically mounts CIF and NFS shares when remote server
    is online and automatically unmounts CIF AND NFS shares when remote server is offline, so
    protects file manager from freezes when remote goes offline after the shares mounted.

    * Priority Manager optionally creates swap file on your HDD/Flash disk which will help
    RAM by caching some part of the memory. Priority Manager not only supports creating swap
    file on internal HDD or usb HDD/Flash disk connected before Azbox boots, it also supports
    creating swap file on usb HDD/Flash disk connected after Azbox boots by continuously
    checking for new USB devices.

    * You can backup or restore /DISK2 and /PLUGINS folders with just a simple button from
    user interface.

    * Priority Manager optionally takes backup of /DISK2 and /PLUGINS folders in user defined
    periods in background.

    * Priority Manager can execute user selected programs after going into SLEEP mode and
    the kill them after return from SLEEP mode. By using this feature running resource
    intensive programs like transmission, aMule, azepgmgr in only SLEEP mode will be
    automatically managed without user intervention.

    * Priority Manager increases internal storage (DOM) speed speed up to 20% by changing
    its working parameters.

    * Priority Manager provides "Deep Sleep Mode" which automatically kills all unnecessary
    applications and improve downloading speed when box goes to sleep mode.

    * You can reset all system passwords with just a simple button from user interface.

    * Up on deactivating or uninstalling Priority Manager, if related features activated in
    /DISK2/etc/PriorityManagerSettings.txt, Busybox downgrades to the orginal version,swap file
    and cron is deactivated all mounted shares are unmounted and plugins are moved back to
    original place. A complete rollback without reboot requirement is performed.


    SPECIAL THANKS TO:
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    Smudger for the all information, tests and power measurements, his tests killed the bugs!

    Kanber Kav for his permission for the usage and modification of his Multicas Info plugin
    and for the idea of increasing internal storage (DOM) speed!

    Zeini for the detailed channel switching time tests!


    Bug Reports
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    If you have any problems with Priority Manager, activate VERBOSE LOG from user interface
    and restart Priority Manager from PLUGINS-->PriorityManager-->Activate/Reactivate.
    This will create a verbose log file /Download/PriorityManager_Verbose_Log . Collect data
    with this option set to 1, without stopping, restarting, reactivating and deactivating
    Priority Manager, because all this operations will delete all old log files. Then send an
    e-mail to buyukbang @ gmail.com containing PriorityManager_Verbose_Log with the approximate
    time that problem occured.


    HISTORY:
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    v1.6
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    NEW: Fine tune for the channel switching times. (Thanks to Zeini for the tests)

    NEW: Reset all system passwords from user interface.

    NEW: Automatically change PriorityManagerSettings.txt format to unix againist accidentally
    being saved in DOS format by user.

    NEW: Priority Management feature can be turn on and off from user interface or direcly
    from PriorityManagerSettings.txt .

    NEW: DYNAMIC_SLEEP, MAJOR_SLEEP_TIME, MINOR_SLEEP_TIME parameters are added. You can
    change this parameters in PriorityManagerSettings.txt if you are not satisfied with (or
    have problems with) Priority Management feature. This gives you more control over Priority
    Management.

    NEW: DOM Speed Increading feature can be turn on and off from user interface or direcly
    from PriorityManagerSettings.txt .

    NEW: Added support for mounting CIF and NFS shares of same file server at the same time .

    FIX: Clicking a button in user interface sometimes shows empty output.

    FIX: Wrong do***entation saying that enabling CRON feature requires enabling BusyBox
    feature. In fact, /PLUGINS/PriorityManager/busybox is directly called by Priority Manager,
    so if you want you can disable BusyBox feature while using CRON feature.


    v1.5
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    NEW: User interface is completely reworked. Toggling all settings from user interface
    without any need for using TELNET / FTP is now possible. Added a button to user interface
    to review current settings.

    NEW: Password protected hidden channel list feature is added.

    NEW: Backup /DISK2 and /PLUGINS folder from user interface is added.

    NEW: Restore last backup of /DISK2 and /PLUGINS folders from user interface is added.

    FIX : Fixed some bugs in "Move Plugins" feature.


    v1.4
    -----
    This was an internal release and only a few testers got this version.

    NEW : Faster menu detection algorithm which dynamically manages sleep time between loops.

    NEW : Busybox can be upgraded automatically in boot from v1.0 to v1.16 with a simple
    option in PriorityManagerSettings.txt (Thanks to Kanber Kav for compiling Busybox!)

    NEW : Full automated Cron setup. Cron provides a very flexible UNIX scheduling mechanism.

    NEW : Moving plugins to internal HDD or USB storages.

    NEW : Scheduled backup of /DISK2 and /PLUGINS folders in user defined periods.

    NEW : Improved user interface on Plugins Menu. (Thanks to Kanber Kav for the new version of
    his Multimenu plugin!)

    NEW : Improvement on automatic management of execution and killing programs: Priority
    Manager can start user selected programs when Azbox sleeps. When Azbox wakes up there are
    3 things that priority manager can do as an opposite action: kill it, start another
    script to stop it or simply do nothing which can be useful if it's a auto-terminated
    program or script.

    NEW: Better and faster recording detection algorithm.

    NEW: Mount checks simplified and tuned for better performance. Now you can mount CIF/NFS
    shares directly to HDD folders without using symlinks to DOM folders.

    NEW: Improved swap file support. Creation of swap file is now retried when "SWAP FILE
    ACTIVATION FAILED" error occurs.

    NEW : Up on deactivating or uninstalling Priority Manager, if related features activated
    in /DISK2/etc/PriorityManagerSettings.txt, Busybox downgrades to the orginal version, swap
    file and cron is deactivated, all mounted shares are unmounted and plugins are moved back
    to original place. So a complete rollback without reboot requirement is performed.

    NEW : Limiting file size of PriorityManager_Verbose_Log with the given byte value.

    FIX : HDD not sleeps when reserved programs are waiting to be recorded.


    v1.3
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    NEW : Packed the script as a plugin. You can look at the script logs, activate,
    deactivate, restart the script simply from Plugins Menu without having to use TELNET.
    Special thanks to Kanber Kav for his permission for the usage and modification of his
    Multimenu plugin!

    NEW : Increasing internal storage (DOM) speed up to 20% by changing its working
    parameters! (Thanks to Kanber Kav for the idea!)

    NEW : Full automated cleanup mechanism: After deleting this plugin from Plugins Menu,
    Priority Manager will be deactivated and process will be stopped, all installed files and
    log file will be deleted, all process priorities will be set to their default values. No
    reboot or user intervention needed!

    NEW : Reserved programs are now supported. When a scheduled recording starts, TV
    prioritization will be applied until it ends.

    NEW : CIF mount support for those who want want to mount CIF shares of your network to
    Azbox. (auto-mounts shares when the file server is online, auto-unmounts share when the
    file server is offline)

    NEW : NFS mount support for those who want want to mount NFS shares of your network to
    Azbox. (auto-mounts shares when the file server is online, auto-unmounts share when the
    file server is offline)

    NEW : Swap file support for Azbox. You can activate this option so that to Priority
    Manager creates swap file on your HDD or Flash disk which will help RAM by caching some
    part of the memory. Swap usage file helps large file operations like recording.

    NEW : "Deep Sleep" option. You can activate this option if you want to kill all
    unnecessary applications when box goes to sleep mode to improve downloading speed. There
    are some side effects of deep sleep. For more information please read DEEP_SLEEP section
    of /DISK2/etc/PriorityManagerSettings.txt .

    NEW : Automatic management of execution and killing of sleep mode programs. Priority
    Manager can execute user selected programs after going into SLEEP mode and the kill them
    after return from SLEEP mode with the new feature. For more information please read
    PROGRAM section of /DISK2/etc/PriorityManagerSettings.txt .

    NEW : CCcam EMU prioritization. (Thanks to Smudger for the information!)

    NEW : NewCS EMU prioritization. (Thanks to Smudger for the information!)

    NEW : Transmission (torrent client) sleep mode prioritization.

    NEW : aMule (eD2K client) sleep mode prioritization.

    NEW : Verbose log generation for debugging added. Please read "IMPORTANT NOTES - 4" for
    more information.

    NEW : Better TV recording and channel switch speed.

    NEW : Better performance for some process priorities.

    NEW : All settings are moved from script file to a separate file :
    /DISK2/etc/PriorityManagerSettings.txt

    FIX : "CANCEL" option in sleep menu is now detected as it should be.


    v1.2
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    NEW : azepgmgr support to protect TV/Media applications from the glitches caused by its
    initial process. (Thanks to Smudger for all tests and information!)

    NEW : Client/Server mode switch parameter for those who want to this script on a box
    being used as a CAM server.

    NEW : Audio menu prioritization.

    NEW : Settings menu prioritization.

    NEW : Plugins menu prioritization.

    NEW : Cheops EMU prioritization.

    NEW : SBox EMU prioritization.

    NEW : All process priorities fine tuned.

    NEW : Better menu detection.

    NEW : Better sleep mode detection.

    NEW : Loop sleep time decreased from 60 seconds to 30 seconds.

    FIX : Sometimes CRTVCore collects all CPU power and this slows down everything. So I
    decreased priority of CRTVCore.

    FIX : Fixed a bug in restart: /DISK2/etc/start.d/S1PriorityManager.sh restart


    v1.1
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    NEW : RSS and Browser components stay in memory after first usage. Added support for
    automatically killing RSS and Browser components when using other menu.


    v1.0
    -----
    NEW : All process priorities updated according to the results of my long tests. IP TV,
    Mediaplayer, Recording, ECM Time (for EMUs) performances are optimised.

    NEW : Old scripts use "snice +XX" command to give processes positive nice values (lower
    priority). But this command does not guarantee to decrease the priority and system
    sometimes ignore this command. You can check old scripts by top command while changing
    menu modes. "<" sign means negative nice value and high priority, "N" sign means positive
    nice value and low priority. After a few times changing the menu modes everything has "<"
    sign and this is really nonfunctional situation. To fix this problem I used "snice STOP"
    which cannot be ignored by the system.

    NEW : massimo1167's script is not compatible with the option "Always Start in TV Mode"
    and this causes totally wrong prioritization. This is fixed.

    NEW : Old scripts block firmware upgrades and upgrade process sticks at "Extracting".
    Priority Manager fixes this issue and fully compatible Opensat upgrades. Just wait 45
    seconds at "Extracting", then upgrade process will continue.

    NEW : ftp,samba,telnet prioritization in sleep mode. I suggest you to transfer your files
    with FTP during sleep mode prioritization. This is the fasted method.

    NEW : Photo menu prioritization.

    NEW : Browser menu prioritization.

    NEW : RSS menu prioritization.

    NEW : Use this command to stop the script (does not work in old scripts):
    /DISK2/etc/start.d/S1PriorityManager.sh stop
    NEW : Use this command to restart the script (does not work in old scripts):
    /DISK2/etc/start.d/S1PriorityManager.sh restart

    NEW : Logging. Use this command to see log file:
    tail -n100 -f /tmp/PriorityManager_IsRunning


    INSTALLATION:
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    METHOD 1 : USING PLUGINS MENU USER INTERFACE
    1. Extract PriorityManager.plugin and plugins.lst files from the archive file.

    2. Copy PriorityManager.plugin and plugins.lst to USB or simply transfer them by FTP to
    /tmp folder of your Azbox.

    3. Enter Plugins menu, press Red Button on remote controller to add plugin. If you're
    using USB select to install it from USB, or if you transferred files to /tmp folder
    install it from tmp folder.

    4. Check user defined parameters in /DISK2/etc/PriorityManagerSettings.txt and edit
    parameters if you want, save the file.

    5. Activate plugin from the plugins menu: PLUGINS-->PriorityManager-->Activate/Reactivate

    6. After the first run of the script standby.sh and wakeup.sh scripts will be created
    under /DISK2/etc . These scripts will help to main script for the decision of the sleep
    mode by creating and deleting a file ( /tmp/PriorityManager_Sleep ) If you have already
    standby.sh and wakeup.sh in /DISK2/etc, they will be backed up by installation process
    in the same directory. Then you may want to manually add below commands to scripts
    before running Priority Manager:
    echo 0 > /tmp/PriorityManager_Sleep = to standby.sh
    rm /tmp/PriorityManager_Sleep = to wakeup.sh

    METHOD 2 : MANUAL INSTALLATION
    Those having difficulties with azbox plugin installation mechanism may choose this method.
    1. Rename PriorityManager.plugin as PriorityManager.tgz and extract files with an unzip
    tool like winrar, 7-Zip, etc.

    2. Upload PriorityManager folder to azbox under /PLUGINS folder.

    3. chmod 755 everything in PriorityManager folder and its sub folders.

    4. Run following command in TELNET: /PLUGINS/PriorityManager/sh/install.sh

    5. Check user defined parameters in /DISK2/etc/PriorityManagerSettings.txt and edit
    parameters if you want, save the file.

    6. Activate plugin from the plugins menu: PLUGINS-->PriorityManager-->Activate/Reactivate

    7. After the first run of the script standby.sh and wakeup.sh scripts will be created
    under /DISK2/etc . These scripts will help to main script for the decision of the sleep
    mode by creating and deleting a file ( /tmp/PriorityManager_Sleep ) If you have already
    standby.sh and wakeup.sh in /DISK2/etc, they will be backed up by installation process
    in the same directory. Then you may want to manually add below commands to scripts
    before running Priority Manager:
    echo 0 > /tmp/PriorityManager_Sleep = to standby.sh
    rm /tmp/PriorityManager_Sleep



    DESCRIPTION OF THE PROCESSES:
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    SDecoderServer - A/V playback and demux
    DStar - Menu handler
    CRTVCore - TV module
    CRTVSetup - TV module
    detector_test - file type detection
    emu_module - Multicas
    file_control - manages file operations.
    mbox_module - MBox emu
    mgcamd - MgCamd emu
    cheops_module - Cheops emu
    sbox.sigma - SBox emu
    telnetd - telnet server
    vsftpd - ftp server
    JIPC_Server - manages messages between processes (Java Interprocess Communication Server)
    cifsdnotifyd - SAMBA server
    cifsoplockd - SAMBA server
    xfslogd - XFS log
    xfsdatad - XFS
    xfsbufd - XFS
    ir_control - Remote control
    youtube_player - Youtube
    Polaris - Browser
    browser_control - Browser
    rssfeed - RSS
    EStar - Photo viewer


    LIST OF NEW COMMANDS IN BUSYBOX V1.16:
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    ar, arp, arping, blkid, brctl, bzip2, cal, catv, chattr, chpasswd, chpst, cksum, comm,
    cpio, crond, crontab, cryptpw, cttyhack, depmod, devfsd, devmem, dhcprelay, diff, dnsd,
    dnsdomainname, dumpkmap, ed, eject, envdir, envuidgid, ether-wake, expand, fakeidentd,
    fbsplash, fdflush, findfs, flash_eraseall, flash_lock, flash_unlock, flashcp, fold, fsck,
    fsck.minix, fsync, ftpd, ftpget, ftpput, fuser, hd, httpd, hush, ifenslave, ifplugd,
    inetd, ip, ipaddr, ipcalc, ipcrm, ipcs, iplink, iproute, iprule, iptunnel, kbd_mode,
    killall5, length, linux32, linux64, loadfont, loadkmap, logread, losetup, lpd, lpq, lpr,
    lsattr, lspci, lsusb, lzmacat, lzop, lzopcat, makemime, man, mdev, mesg, microcom,
    mkdosfs, mke2fs, mkfs.ext2, mkfs.minix, mkfs.reiser, mkfs.vfat, mkpasswd, mountpoint,
    msh, nameif, nc, nice, nmeter, nohup, ntpd, patch, pgrep, ping6, pkill, popmaildir,
    printenv, pscan, rdev, readprofile, realpath, reformime, resize, rpm, rpm2cpio, rtcwake,
    runlevel, runsv, runsvdir, script, scriptreplay, sendmail, seq, setarch, setconsole,
    setfont, setkeycodes, setlogcons, setsid, setuidgid, sha256sum, sha512sum, showkey,
    slattach, softlimit, split, stat, sum, sv, svlogd, switch_root, tac, tcpsvd, tftpd,
    timeout, tr, traceroute6, tunctl, tune2fs, udpsvd, uncompress, unexpand, unlzma, unlzop,
    volname, wall, watch, watchdog, who, zcip


    SAMPLE LOG FILE:
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    PRIORITY MANAGER V1.6 BY BUYUKBANG
    FLAGS => R:RECORD M:MOUNT S:SWAP A:ACTION B:BUSYBOX C:CRON P:PLUGINS
    21:56:11 06/27/10: MOVING PLUGINS TO /DATA/usb1/sda1
    21:56:48 06/27/10: MOUNTING /DATA/usb1/sda1 TO /PLUGINS
    21:56:51 06/27/10: RECREATING SYMLINKS FOR /USER /EMU
    21:56:52 06/27/10: PLUGINS MOVED
    /dev/sda1 on /PLUGINS type ex** (rw,data=ordered)

    21:56:53 06/27/10: INCREASING INTERNAL STORAGE (DOM) SPEED
    21:56:53 06/27/10: UPGRADING BUSYBOX
    21:57:02 06/27/10: BUSYBOX UPGRADED
    21:57:03 06/27/10: CRON ACTIVATED
    # THESE ARE JUST EXAMPLES, ADD YOUR ENTRIES WITHOUT LEADING #
    # 30 14 * * * /DATA/hdb1/EPG/cronepg.sh
    # 50 20 * * 0 /opt/rsync.sh
    # 0 10 * * 4 /DATA/hdb1/EPG/update.sh
    * * * * * /DISK2/etc/test1.sh

    21:57:15 06/27/10: CREATING A NEW SWAP FILE
    21:58:58 06/27/10: SWAP FILE ACTIVATED
    total used free shared buffers
    Mem: 100484 97244 3240 0 2836
    Swap: 151700 0 151700
    Total: 252184 97244 154940

    21:59:01 06/27/10: NFS MOUNT COMPLETED
    192.168.2.12:/film on /DATA/hdb1/movie/film type nfs
    192.168.2.12:/download on /DATA/hdb1/movie/download type nfs
    192.168.2.12:/mp3 on /DATA/hdb1/music/PC type nfs
    192.168.2.12:/pictures on /DATA/hdb1/picture/PC type nfs

    21:59:01 06/27/10: BACKUP STARTED => /DATA/hdb1/BACKUP/100627215901
    21:59:40 06/27/10: DELETING OLD BACKUP /DATA/hdb1/BACKUP/100619151221
    21:59:40 06/27/10: BACKUP COMPLETED
    21:59:42 06/27/10: START=>PLUGINS TV=10 R=0 M=1 S=1 A=W BU=1 C=1 P=1 BA=1
    22:00:39 06/27/10: PLUGINS=>TV TV=13 R=0 M=1 S=1 A=W BU=1 C=1 P=1 BA=1
    ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------


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    thank u
    0.9.4931 + HW acceleration on + PRIORITY MANAGER V1.6 is v v fast
    /also btw epg is perfect on some channels (7days visible)

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    Yes, I've same configuration. HW accerelation is always on for 2 mounts without any single problem or instability for me.

    Quote Originally Posted by aoryx View Post
    thank u
    0.9.4931 + HW acceleration on + PRIORITY MANAGER V1.6 is v v fast
    /also btw epg is perfect on some channels (7days visible)

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    yep, finally we get a stable configuration, thank to buyukbang

    also EPG finally does not disappear!

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    what is the proper way to install this plugin with 1.5 already installed

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    Delete v1.5 from plugins menu, send these new files to azbox /tmp folder with ftp, install it from plugins menu, edit setting file then activate PM from user interface.


    Quote Originally Posted by blakas View Post
    what is the proper way to install this plugin with 1.5 already installed

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    I made a test for the new prority manager and i'm not really happy with it. (I appreciate your hard work and thank you for that).

    The test is made on Azbox HD Elite (SW 0.9.4931, lastest MultiCAS and PRIORITY MANAGER V1.6 BY BUYUKBANG).

    I had these 11 channels and I tested the zap speed.

    1. Das Erste HD (FTA HD)
    2. ZDF HD (FTA HD)
    3. Einsfestival HD (FTA HD)
    _______________________________
    4. RTL HD (Locked HD)
    5. VOX HD (Locked HD)
    6. Kabel Eins HD (Locked HD)
    7. Sat 1 HD (Locked HD)
    8. Prosieben HD (Locked HD)
    _______________________________
    9. RTL (FTA SD)
    10. RTL 2 (FTA SD)
    11. Super RTL (FTA SD)

    As you can see there are 3 groups of channels: FTA HD, Locked HD and FTA SD. Here are the results:

    Without Priority Manager:

    FTA Channels (from 9. to 3.): 17.4 s
    Locked Channels (from 4. to 8.): 21.7 s
    Both (from 9. to 9.): 41.6 s


    With Priority manager:

    FTA Channels (from 9. to 3.): 18.1 s
    Locked Channels (from 4. to 8.): 23.3 s
    Both (from 9. to 9.): 41.1 s


    As you can see, with Priority manager my Azbox needs more time to zap the same number of channels.
    One more notice, navigating through the channel list is also slower with the Priority manager.

    Priority manager was 100% good installed, swap file worked fine, no errors in the log file.

    Oh, I almost forgot, I couldn't use the "Hardware acceleraction" because when i activate it i get the "No signal" message and "TV" option from the Home menu disappears and i have to clean install the Azbox.

    I hope these helps.

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    Hmm,

    Your test results really differs from mine and Zeini's. For us v1.6 is even better than v1.3 which is better than switching channels without PM. Could you retest with a clean old firmware (ie 4890) + v1.3 and v1.6 when you had time?

    Quote Originally Posted by T0rca1950 View Post
    I made a test for the new prority manager and i'm not really happy with it. (I appreciate your hard work and thank you for that).

    The test is made on Azbox HD Elite (SW 0.9.4931, lastest MultiCAS and PRIORITY MANAGER V1.6 BY BUYUKBANG).

    I had these 11 channels and I tested the zap speed.

    1. Das Erste HD (FTA HD)
    2. ZDF HD (FTA HD)
    3. Einsfestival HD (FTA HD)
    _______________________________
    4. RTL HD (Locked HD)
    5. VOX HD (Locked HD)
    6. Kabel Eins HD (Locked HD)
    7. Sat 1 HD (Locked HD)
    8. Prosieben HD (Locked HD)
    _______________________________
    9. RTL (FTA SD)
    10. RTL 2 (FTA SD)
    11. Super RTL (FTA SD)

    As you can see there are 3 groups of channels: FTA HD, Locked HD and FTA SD. Here are the results:

    Without Priority Manager:

    FTA Channels (from 9. to 3.): 17.4 s
    Locked Channels (from 4. to 8.): 21.7 s
    Both (from 9. to 9.): 41.6 s


    With Priority manager:

    FTA Channels (from 9. to 3.): 18.1 s
    Locked Channels (from 4. to 8.): 23.3 s
    Both (from 9. to 9.): 41.1 s


    As you can see, with Priority manager my Azbox needs more time to zap the same number of channels.
    One more notice, navigating through the channel list is also slower with the Priority manager.

    Priority manager was 100% good installed, swap file worked fine, no errors in the log file.

    Oh, I almost forgot, I couldn't use the "Hardware acceleraction" because when i activate it i get the "No signal" message and "TV" option from the Home menu disappears and i have to clean install the Azbox.

    I hope these helps.
    Last edited by buyukbang; 06-07-2010 at 06:27 AM.

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    Hi T0rca1950!

    Make more runs. The times are different from run to run. On my test the runs with Prioritymanager 1.6 was a little faster than without. But the difference was less.

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    Hello,

    I made some tests with PM v1.5 with my Elite and I also got poorer results than when PM is disabled, namely in terms of channel switching and menu navigation...
    With PM v1.5 I also experienced some problems playing recorded HD channels (e.g. BBC HD and ITV HD).
    After aprox. 3 minutes playing no sound and image bouncing... and playing the same recorded channel with PM disabled, there is no problem I was able to watch the 90+15 minutes (aprox. 9GB) of a world cup game :-)

    Notes:
    - I'm using firm 0.4931
    - I didn't make any change on settings file (I'm using the default)
    - Usually I'm not using any external USB flash or HDD (I only connect an HDD when I want to record something or watch a movie)
    - HW accelaration Off (I never tried by, it seems that it doesn't work very well with Elite model)

    Having the aformentioned scenario, do you recommend any change on settings file to improve performance with PM?

    Anyway, thanks Buyukbang for your great work.

    I hope to have some time during the next weekend, to perform some tests with PM v1.6.

    thanks again.

    Quote Originally Posted by buyukbang View Post
    Hmm,

    Your test results really differs from mine and Zeini's. For us v1.6 is even better than v1.3 which is better than switching channels without PM. Could you retest with a clean old firmware (ie 4890) + v1.3 and v1.6 when you had time?

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    1.6 is really good. way better than previous ones.

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    I'll check this today and and pass result here.

    For channel switch speed with v1.6, it's better than any previous versions and for the case without PM.

    Quote Originally Posted by fcis7000e+ View Post
    Hello,
    With PM v1.5 I also experienced some problems playing recorded HD channels (e.g. BBC HD and ITV HD).
    After aprox. 3 minutes playing no sound and image bouncing... and playing the same recorded channel with PM disabled, there is no problem I was able to watch the 90+15 minutes (aprox. 9GB) of a world cup game :-)
    thanks again.

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    I did a clean install (reseted to factory defaults, deleted channels, deleted plugins, fromated application area). Installed lastest OpenXCAS, MultiCAS, Firmware, Priority manager. I don't even have a big channel list (only Astra 19.2 and Hotbird). I did the test three times and this is the avarage.

    I don't belive that I will have time to do more tests today, maybe in the evening, but just maybe.

    It would be great if you could put your tests here... Maybe on the same channels as I did. So that we can compare them.

    Quote Originally Posted by buyukbang View Post
    Hmm,

    Your test results really differs from mine and Zeini's. For us v1.6 is even better than v1.3 which is better than switching channels without PM. Could you retest with a clean old firmware (ie 4890) + v1.3 and v1.6 when you had time?

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    Hi again,

    These are the Zeini's results for PM v1.6 (its written as v1.5 Test 2). I didn't do***ented my results but I've similar results in my tests. If you check sums there is a relationship like this for channel swithcing speed:

    PM v1.6 > PM v1.3 > No PM

    Of course PM does not double channel switching speed, because this is highly related with tuner, tuner driver, EMU and firmware user interface. But I think %7 channel switching speed increase with PM 1.6 is a good software upgrade. Speed difference is much more for Media Player since there aren't too many external factors.


    Quote Originally Posted by T0rca1950 View Post
    I did a clean install (reseted to factory defaults, deleted channels, deleted plugins, fromated application area). Installed lastest OpenXCAS, MultiCAS, Firmware, Priority manager. I don't even have a big channel list (only Astra 19.2 and Hotbird). I did the test three times and this is the avarage.

    I don't belive that I will have time to do more tests today, maybe in the evening, but just maybe.

    It would be great if you could put your tests here... Maybe on the same channels as I did. So that we can compare them.
    Last edited by buyukbang; 06-07-2010 at 01:40 PM.

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    BTW, for a fair comparison you must be sure that your server's response time (ECM) is perfectly same during your tests. This is an important factor that causes differences between results of same tests.

    So I think best way of testing the channel switch speed is using PM for a few days.

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    For a fair comparsion we have to use fta channels. I'm more worried about the slow navigating through the menu... I'll try to test the whole thing today or tomorrow...

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    As I promised I tested recording an HD encrypted channel and playback of this file. Recording is perfect and playback is very smooth with PM v1.6. I suggest you to try v1.6.

    Quote Originally Posted by buyukbang View Post
    I'll check this today and and pass result here.

    For channel switch speed with v1.6, it's better than any previous versions and for the case without PM.

    Quote Originally Posted by fcis7000e+ View Post
    Hello,
    With PM v1.5 I also experienced some problems playing recorded HD channels (e.g. BBC HD and ITV HD).
    After aprox. 3 minutes playing no sound and image bouncing... and playing the same recorded channel with PM disabled, there is no problem I was able to watch the 90+15 minutes (aprox. 9GB) of a world cup game :-)
    thanks again.

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    Thanks.

    As soon as possible I'll try PM v1.6.
    Then I let you know the results.

    Quote Originally Posted by buyukbang View Post
    As I promised I tested recording an HD encrypted channel and playback of this file. Recording is perfect and playback is very smooth with PM v1.6. I suggest you to try v1.6.

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    Quick Tests results with PM 1.6:

    1- Using default PM settings, except DOM improving speed, which I set to ON
    2- Channel switching and menu navigation times improved (much better than PM 1.5 and it seems slightly quicker than withoiut PM)
    3- No more problems playing back recorded HD program of about 9GB (BBC HD and ITV HD) => there was a problem observed with PM 1.5, after 3 minutes playing, no sound and image bouncing, after 10 min watching the same ts video, no problems observed with Pm 1.6
    4- "cuts" watching prueba.mkv (1080 HD movie sample) => in previous versions of firmware and using the script of hfmls and typeR I was able to watch this 30 sec movie samples without any "cut".
    5- After installing PM 1.6 I'm having again the problem (not) accessing the Settings menu and when switching among the different menus e.g. TV => Plug-ins => TV results in a black image in TV mode and only after a box restart I'm able to watch TV again. After the reboot If I enter again in Plug-ins or RSS menus (the ones I tried) then to watch TV I have to restart the box again...
    I reported this same problem some time ago (it is somehow related with IPTV channels), and it seemed that it was misteriously solved (I didn't understand if solved with the latest firmware version or something else...), but after installing PM 1.6 it appeared again. The strange thing is that after disabling PM1.6 the problem still persists...
    I will try to remove IPTV channels and make some more tests...
    Anyway if you have any ideas to try to overcome this situation, would be appreciated.

    Thanks.

    Quote Originally Posted by fcis7000e+ View Post
    Thanks.

    As soon as possible I'll try PM v1.6.
    Then I let you know the results.

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    Quote Originally Posted by buyukbang View Post
    BTW, for a fair comparison you must be sure that your server's response time (ECM) is perfectly same during your tests. This is an important factor that causes differences between results of same tests.

    So I think best way of testing the channel switch speed is using PM for a few days.
    You need to keep in mind the model being used in your comparisons.

    I am an elite user with a DVB-S and a DVB-T interface. I therefore cannot use "Hardware acceleration", my DOM will be smaller than a Premium etc..

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