Poor On demand

Hello all. My on demand keeps freezing, so I’ve followed all the suggested routes, re-sets etc. to rectify the problem. Three calls to the so call customer help service, still the same problem! My question is about the BT wholesale broadband performance test. My download speed 6.16, up 0.33 and ping latency (ms) 41.00 is good as the max for my line is 7.15. When I checked the additional services enabled on my line, advanced test (premium for video), the results failed and says to raise a fault with your service provider, poor service throughput performance! Does anyone understand what this means as when I phone all they want me to do is reset box, hub or take a day off work to wait for an engineer to do the same!! Any help would be appreciated, many thanks, Steve.
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Up-date.........
It's a miracle !! Without the suggested help of an engineer, at the cost of £99 if a fault was discovered in my home. The on demand, catch up channels are all working fine, bt wholesale performance test for premium video now passed! Strange how things get sorted when you tell them to collect their box!!

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I have had BT Vision for 10 days now and Im finding that the quality of the on demand is quite poor its a bit hazy around people and quite off putting to watch. It happens on all channels. The technicall team have said it was cos my vision box was running off 1mb instead of 1.6mb. The changed that and still no difference anyone have the same problem as I thought on demand was meant to be perfect

Hi,
i think i'm having the same problems as alot of other people out there. Had my bt vision for a few months now and get no sound and juttery picture quality when watching on demand content. It really annoys me ecspecially when you fork out money to buy the new films and can't watch them. I have just got off the phone with the help desk after speaking for at least an hour and after pluuging and unplugging the hub and running al types of tests, apparently there is a fault on my phone line which isnt correct as i have run the same line test for my phone minutes before he did and there in black white there was no fault in my phone line. I would really appreciate any help at the moment or i will no doubt be changing to sky or virgin here below are my speed results.
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FAQ
1. Best Effort Test: -provides background information.
Download Speed
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If you wish to discuss these results please contact your Broadband Service Provider.
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Poor On Demand music content.

Am I the only one who finds the lack of quality music disappointing?
Why is there no no jazz, blues or classical?   Why is the amount of classic rock so limited? Nearly 12 months ago, when I first got BT Vision, there was a separate menu option for Live Concerts - but no longer. Was that removed simply to hide the fact that there are so few available and that there have been no new ones? This doesn't bode well for the future.
It seems to me that whoever updates the music section is only interested Xfactor acts and similar garbage targetted at 12 year olds.   This really must improve if I am to stay with BT Vision.
Andrew

andrewk wrote:
Am I the only one who finds the lack of quality music disappointing?
Why is there no no jazz, blues or classical?   Why is the amount of classic rock so limited? Nearly 12 months ago, when I first got BT Vision, there was a separate menu option for Live Concerts - but no longer. Was that removed simply to hide the fact that there are so few available and that there have been no new ones? This doesn't bode well for the future.
It seems to me that whoever updates the music section is only interested Xfactor acts and similar garbage targetted at 12 year olds.   This really must improve if I am to stay with BT Vision.
Andrew
My kid loves a lot of the music on there as it's mainly the top 40 and groups heard of, so can easily relate to them
I've not actually looked at what the music side provides overall, but was under the impression it was all the latest chart hits and thus, but just looking at the listing on the btvision website (which we know we can't always trust) there are some good classic stuff on there (tracks that i like, bon jovi, tina turner, meatloaf, u2, the clash, specials to name but a few) - but i like a lot of the eighties music anyway (couldn't see any madness or jam) and there is also a various artists album for the eighties on there.
But I can see there is no classical, blues, jazz, motown of which I like (don't like classical much), of which is a shame and i think as you say the music section is mainly targeted for the young, but I think it also needs to be targetted for the older generation as well.

No support for 60 fps MP4 on Mac. Really? iPhoto does this, so does Live Gallery on Windows

I know Adobe has the technology to support this...they do in Premiere just fine.

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No Support for SoundBlaster Live! Platinum

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Apple maps has received a poor performance rating just after introduction of the iPhone 5. I am running google maps app on the phone. Siri cannot seem to get me to a specific address. Where does the problem lie? Thanks.

Apple maps has received a poor performance rating just after introduction of the iPhone 5. I am running Google Maps app on the phone. SIRI cannot seem to get me to a specific address. Where does the problem lie? Also can anyone tell me the hierarchy of use between the Apple Maps, SIRI, and Google maps when the app is on the phone? How do you choose one over the other as the default map usage? Or better still how do you suppress SIRI from using the Apple maps app when requesting a "go to"?
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Poor performance of the BDB cache

I'm experiencing incredibly poor performance of the BDB cache and wanted to share my experience, in case anybody has any suggestions.
Overview
Stone Steps maintains a fork of a web log analysis tool - the Webalizer (http://www.stonesteps.ca/projects/webalizer/). One of the problems with the Webalizer is that it maintains all data (i.e. URLs, search strings, IP addresses, etc) in memory, which puts a cap on the maximum size of the data set that can be analyzed. Naturally, BDB was picked as the fastest database to maintain analyzed data on disk set and produce reports by querying the database. Unfortunately, once the database grows beyond the cache size, overall performance goes down the drain.
Note that the version of SSW available for download does not support BDB in the way described below. I can make the source available for you, however, if you find your own large log files to analyze.
The Database
Stone Steps Webalizer (SSW) is a command-line utility and needs to preserve all intermediate data for the month on disk. The original approach was to use a plain-text file (webalizer.current, for those who know anything about SSW). The BDB database that replaced this plain text file consists of the following databases:
sequences (maintains record IDs for all other tables)
urls -primary database containing URL data - record ID (key), URL itself, grouped data, such as number of hits, transfer size, etc)
urls.values - secondary database that contains a hash of the URL (key) and the record ID linking it to the primary database; this database is used for value lookups)
urls.hits - secondary database that contains the number of hits for each URL (key) and the record ID to link it to the primary database; this database is used to order URLs in the report by the number of hits.
The remaining databases are here just to indicate the database structure. They are the same in nature as the two described above. The legend is as follows: (s) will indicate a secondary database, (p) - primary database, (sf) - filtered secondary database (using DB_DONOTINDEX).
urls.xfer (s), urls.entry (s), urls.exit (s), urls.groups.hits (sf), urls.groups.xfer (sf)
hosts (p), hosts.values (s), hosts.hits (s), hosts.xfer (s), hosts.groups.hits (sf), hosts.groups.xfer (sf)
downloads (p), downloads.values (s), downloads.xfer (s)
agents (p), agents.values (s), agents.values (s), agents.hits (s), agents.visits (s), agents.groups.visits (sf)
referrers (p), referrers.values (s), referrers.values (s), referrers.hits (s), referrers.groups.hits (sf)
search (p), search.values (s), search.hits (s)
users (p), users.values (s), users.hits (s), users.groups.hits (sf)
errors (p), errors.values (s), errors.hits (s)
dhosts (p), dhosts.values (s)
statuscodes (HTTP status codes)
totals.daily (31 days)
totals.hourly (24 hours)
totals (one record)
countries (a couple of hundred countries)
system (one record)
visits.active (active visits - variable length)
downloads.active (active downloads - variable length)
All these databases (49 of them) are maintained in a single file. Maintaining a single database file is a requirement, so that the entire database for the month can be renamed, backed up and used to produce reports on demand.
Database Size
One of the sample Squid logs I received from a user contains 4.4M records and is about 800MB in size. The resulting database is 625MB in size. Note that there is no duplication of text data - only nodes and such values as hits and transfer sizes are duplicated. Each record also contains some small overhead (record version for upgrades, etc).
Here are the sizes of the URL databases (other URL secondary databases are similar to urls.hits described below):
urls (p):
8192 Underlying database page size
2031 Overflow key/data size
1471636 Number of unique keys in the tree
1471636 Number of data items in the tree
193 Number of tree internal pages
577738 Number of bytes free in tree internal pages (63% ff)
55312 Number of tree leaf pages
145M Number of bytes free in tree leaf pages (67% ff)
2620 Number of tree overflow pages
16M Number of bytes free in tree overflow pages (25% ff)
urls.hits (s)
8192 Underlying database page size
2031 Overflow key/data size
2 Number of levels in the tree
823 Number of unique keys in the tree
1471636 Number of data items in the tree
31 Number of tree internal pages
201970 Number of bytes free in tree internal pages (20% ff)
45 Number of tree leaf pages
243550 Number of bytes free in tree leaf pages (33% ff)
2814 Number of tree duplicate pages
8360024 Number of bytes free in tree duplicate pages (63% ff)
0 Number of tree overflow pages
The Testbed
I'm running all these tests using the latest BDB (v4.6) built from the source on Win2K3 server (release version). The test machine is 1.7GHz P4 with 1GB of RAM and an IDE hard drive. Not the fastest machine, but it was able to handle a log file like described before at a speed of 20K records/sec.
BDB is configured in a single file in a BDB environment, using private memory, since only one process ever has access to the database).
I ran a performance monitor while running SSW, capturing private bytes, disk read/write I/O, system cache size, etc.
I also used a code profiler to analyze SSW and BDB performance.
The Problem
Small log files, such as 100MB, can be processed in no time - BDB handles them really well. However, once the entire BDB cache is filled up, the machine goes into some weird state and can sit in this state for hours and hours before completing the analysis.
Another problem is that traversing large primary or secondary databases is a really slow and painful process. It is really not that much data!
Overall, the 20K rec/sec quoted above drop down to 2K rec/sec. And that's all after most of the analysis has been done, just trying to save the database.
The Tests
SSW runs in two modes, memory mode and database mode. In memory mode, all data is kept in memory in SSW's own hash tables and then saved to BDB at the end of each run.
In memory mode, the entire BDB is dumped to disk at the end of the run. First, it runs fairly fast, until the BDB cache is filled up. Then writing (disk I/O) goes at a snail pace, at about 3.5MB/sec, even though this disk can write at about 12-15MB/sec.
Another problem is that the OS cache gets filled up, chewing through all available memory long before completion. In order to deal with this problem, I disabled the system cache using the DB_DIRECT_DB/LOG options. I could see OS cache left alone, but once BDB cache was filed up, processing speed was as good as stopped.
Then I flipped options and used DB_DSYNC_DB/LOG options to disable OS disk buffering. This improved overall performance and even though OS cache was filling up, it was being flushed as well and, eventually, SSW finished processing this log, sporting 2K rec/sec. At least it finished, though - other combinations of these options lead to never-ending tests.
In the database mode, stale data is put into BDB after processing every N records (e.g. 300K rec). In this mode, BDB behaves similarly - until the cache is filled up, the performance is somewhat decent, but then the story repeats.
Some of the other things I tried/observed:
* I tried to experiment with the trickle option. In all honesty, I hoped that this would be the solution to my problems - trickle some, make sure it's on disk and then continue. Well, trickling was pretty much useless and didn't make any positive impact.
* I disabled threading support, which gave me some performance boost during regular value lookups throughout the test run, but it didn't help either.
* I experimented with page size, ranging them from the default 8K to 64K. Using large pages helped a bit, but as soon as the BDB cached filled up, the story repeated.
* The Db.put method, which was called 73557 times while profiling saving the database at the end, took 281 seconds. Interestingly enough, this method called ReadFile function (Win32) 20000 times, which took 258 seconds. The majority of the Db.put time was wasted on looking up records that were being updated! These lookups seem to be the true problem here.
* I tried libHoard - it usually provides better performance, even in a single-threaded process, but libHoard didn't help much in this case.

I have been able to improve processing speed up to
6-8 times with these two techniques:
1. A separate trickle thread was created that would
periodically call DbEnv::memp_trickle. This works
especially good on multicore machines, but also
speeds things up a bit on single CPU boxes. This
alone improved speed from 2K rec/sec to about 4K
rec/sec.Hello Stone,
I am facing a similar problem, and I too hope to resolve the same with memp_trickle. I had these queries.
1. what was the % of clean pages that you specified?
2. What duration were you clling this thread to call memp_trickle?
This would give me a rough idea about which to tune my app. Would really appreciate if you can answer these queries.
Regards,
Nishith.
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2. Maintaining multiple secondary databases in real
time proved to be the bottleneck. The code was
changed to create secondary databases at the end of
the run (calling Db::associate with the DB_CREATE
flag), right before the reports are generated, which
use these secondary databases. This improved speed
from 4K rec/sec to 14K rec/sec.

FiOS On Demand in need of a complete overhaul! Won't you agree?

Might be nice for fellow members to tag onto this thread if you are in agreement. Verizon might then take notice and action. I'm new to FiOS at my home, and have TV (Preferred HD, whole house DVR), Internet (50/50, Quantum Gateway), and Phone service that replaced my 10-years of Comcast at this house and the last year or so was with X1 service. I have been a Comcast customer for 24 years. I decided to switch primarily because of increasing problems with Comcast due to their transmission cables and aging overhead equipment that left me with poor quality service and frequently service interruption. The decision was made even easier after Comcast again increased rates for the New Year, dropped some standard channels I enjoy, and because FiOS has a really advantageous package deal promotion! To round things out, I also have experience with AT&T Uverse service as I spend a lot of time in Houston with family and have set the house up there with their TV/Internet/Phone. I have to say the HD picture is far better with FiOS than Comcast, and using the whole-house DVR system the set top boxes aren't really any different than those of the X1 service. Internet has been consistently 10% above rated service speeds, and the Quantum Gateway is really a nice router with a robust wireless antenna that FINALLY overwhelms the professional CISCO wireless access point my IT-professional neighbor uses nextdoor that would hinder signal in my living room. Comcast had throttled my Internet frequently, and anyone who says they do not throttle service does not know technical folks in Comcast as I have or really understand why they forced everyone to upgrade their modems to the current docsys standard. FiOS hasn't touched my bandwidth and I can finally transfer massive files through VPN to/from my office without issue and quickly! Even the phone is louder, clearer, and people I call on the West Coast have commented there is no more funny lag or dropouts. All GREAT things that make me happy, especially at a few less bucks a month compared to Comcast even though adding an extra TV! Even further, I had to contact FiOS technical support regarding a bit of an odd problem that occurred during initial setup that affected a few things, and the overall experience and final resolution to my problem was superior to support from Comcast. While it was not a one-contact, fast and easy slam-dunk fix experience. Verizon did work to resolve the issue, and had it the issue sorted within one week. Here's where FiOS falls incredibly short of the definitive mark of superior service as compared to Comcast: On Demand. After now a few weeks acclimating to FiOS On Demand, I have to say that it is terrible compared to Comcast. Comcast has more titles, more logical organization, and literally updates within 12 hours of airing! FiOS On Demand doesn't even organize by all channels. For instance, The CW isn't even in the channel list, and you have to search to find content aired on that channel. Then, the search feature is also inaccurate at times based on inputted search keyword, and it doesn't help that the video on demand provider is not consistent in episode naming/numbering format. I'm still waiting for episodes 10 days after airing and the next episode has already been broadcast! Quite honestly, it looks like FiOS uses the same video on demand provider as Uverse, and customers of Uverse have complained about their On Demand forever. Taking it a step further, Comcast's On Demand programming is totally accessible via mobile appliances (tablets, smartphones) through their TV Remote app, which is smartly laid out, user friendly, and programming easy to find (this is not the old app previously criticised but a totally new app Comcast released in late 2014). Conversely, the FiOS Mobile app is just an extension of everything already wrong with the FiOS On Demand interface! FiOS, I like you, but I'd really like to love you and to be able to recommend you flat across the board to everyone I meet for doing everything better! Can you please take some major steps in improving the On Demand experience?

What irritates me about Verizon On Demand is that shows that should be in both HD and SD, are only showing in SD. I originally watched them in HD when they were broadcast, so why are they only showing in SD on On Demand? Examples of this are: Highlander on Starz...When the episodes were airing, you could go back and watch them again in HD or SD. Now they are only in SD. SD is unsatisfactory when you are used to HD (and you are paying for HD under the Preferred HD plan). Another example...The Americans on FX. I missed it the night it aired and went to watch it the next day and it is only being shown in SD. And these aren't the only two. I called Verizon about this and the rep did not have a response as to why this was the situation. But she went on to tell me how many thousands of shows were on FIOS ON DEMAND...and tried to talk me into signing up and paying more to have a DVR, then I could be sure to see shows in HD....Not a suitable answer and solution to my problem.Just thought I would put my 2 cents in on this topic. PS I used to have Comcast and due to increases and multiple service calls to get issues fixed, I changed over to FIOS (I'd also had FIOS before Comcast). Don't we all get sick and tired of the rate changes?? Keep playing the game and changing back and forth to get the best price! But this is another issue. PPS Geotex1, your're right, I could not find the CW searching via network.

New Macbook Air 11" 2014 Model Display Hinge Loose and exacerbated by extremely poor service

I have bought a new MacBook Air 11 from Ezone on the 3rd of October. When I opened the product, I realised that the hinge seemed to be loose and would fall back on its own when tilted. That's when my troubles started.
I went to the Maple Apple Authorised Service Center at Santa Cruz, Mumbai and was told that the product was fine and that the screen tilt was 'normal'.
I then happened to visit some other stores and noticed that the MacBooks on display didn't swing back the same way.
I returned to the Service Center again and was told again that it was 'normal'. When I demanded to see the manager, I was told he had left for the day. I rang him and was told that I should come and see him the next day and he would provide a speedy resolution to the problem.
I rang the store that I'd purchased it from and they told me that they would be happy to replace the product provided the service center gave a certificate called DOA.
The next day was an even more harrowing experience. When I reached the manager's office, he tried telling me again that the product was 'normal'. When I explained to him that none of the in store models were like that, he said that to give the certificate, he would need at least 2 days as there was a 'process' to be followed. The 'process' is to merely record how the display flips back when tilted back.
I tried to call Apple Customer Care and spoke to Nishant and then Ravi (who told me that he usually never spoke to customers directly but as a special case was speaking to me since I'd had a bad experience!).
Ravi, assured me of a ideal resolution within 24 hours.
And so today, I received a call from Nishant, who informed me that because of the nature of the inconvenience, Apple had decided to offer 2 solutions: 1. They would ship a new machine from Singapore directly to my home address but that would take 4-5 business weeks. I was fine with that solution although I didn't understand the merit of sending a new laptop from Singapore. However, he then told me that I would FIRST have to submit the laptop and ONLY THEN would they ship it out to me. So essentially, I would be without a laptop for next month and a half! In short, a ridiculous solution. 2. The second solution was that I would have to give my BRAND NEW laptop (less than 2 weeks old!) to the service centre, they would repair it and return it in a few days. So we were back to square one. When I tried to understand the escalation process, I was curtly told that there was no escalation and this was Apple's response and resolution to my problem.
So, I, the unhappy customer, was given no choice except to turn in my machine to the service centre whereas, GLOBALLY, Apple would have replaced the machine if it was less than 2 weeks old!
Absolutely pathetic experience with no keenness to help except have longwinded calls that provided no solution whatsoever.
And this to a customer who's just bought a brand new machine and is expecting a spectacular experience! Even Lenovo or Sony offer onsite support, so the Apple experience is a terrible, terrible letdown.
I feel cheated and downright stupid for having paid such a premium for a product with manufacturing defect followed with such extraordinarily poor service!

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Daily demand forecast report

Hello, can you please help with the report design on Bex, I am a fresher on SAP BI.
I have a requirement to design Daily demand tracker, report is published weekly, i have to show the fields in report as sunday, monday... soon, overall week total demand? Can you please tell me how we can achieve this?

Hi Poori, Once you are in RSPC transac, choose you Chain and double click. Then press F8 and you'll schedule the job each day of the week and hours, normally C priority. Regards.

Flash poor performance with vector art (.svg)

When using multiple pieces of vector art I've noticed that performance gets rather sloppy, so I created a simple test program that displays 100 copies of the same graphic and allows zooming. I used what I believe to be a fairly simple vector image (can see links below). However, fps drops massively when zooming in or out. I know zooming requires a lot of calculations, but I have an above average system (i5 2500k processor) that I would expect to handle such demands. Is there something I'm missing? or is vector art just not viable for my game (I would need lots of similar artwork on the screen at one time)
Picture of image - http://i.imgur.com/Cj50O.png
SVG file - http://pastebin.com/MjBLebFQ
Test Code: http://pastebin.com/Xmquy9Py

Oh wow, cache as bitmap seems to make quite a noticable improvement in performance. I didn't know that option was possible.
I will look into bitmaps, but I tried before and noticed the quality was poor when zooming. Lots of jagged edges. I tried using bitmapSmoothing but then my images were noticably blurry afterwards.
Thanks for the help again kglad. You are an absolute legend!

ABAP code for caliculating the demand variability

Hi gurus,
I need to calculate the the demand variability for the requested raw material,
Demand Variability for raw materials is calculated by taking the standard deviation of 52 data points, each point representing the total consumption in a week.
The raw consumption data contains negative figures on many days, resulting from inventory adjustment transactions. Aggregate consumption to a weekly bucket to keep variability from being artificially inflated by any negative figures from adjustments due to physicals, poor practices, or cycle counts.
Calculation
Calculate the consumption for every week based on MSEG-MENGE where MKPF-BUDAT falls within the week bucket from Sunday till Saturday. This is the value Xn.
SUM all 52 Xn values for every week. This is Y.
Divide the Y/52 = Z
Calculate for that year the standard deviation
SQRT (((Xn-Z)2)/n)
Can you any one give the code for this condition.
Thanks in advance.

any help please...

Black Bars on Sides & Poor Upload to YouTube

        I have already tried converting my Mp4's from my camera to AVI and this will resolve the black bars but the end result is still poor video once uploaded... I get the little red x in the lower left hand corner about poor display quality (see picture at bottom) If I work with the original Mp4s and leave the Black Bars on the side the videos looks fine... please help. The AVIs are taking too much space once I convert them from Mp4 so I would like to leave that option out of this topic, unless someone can tell me how set Super or Prisim up to keep the file size the same when converting or how to convert an Mp4 to AVI in a smaller format that is usable by Premiere.
These are the best specs I can give you guys after reading How To Ask A Question from Hunt....
*   WINDOWS 7 64BIT os
*   Adobe Project Settings - HD 1080i 30 presently
                       HD 1080i 30 (60i) formerly
*   Adobe Settings - Default after a clean install of Windows 7
*   Files - Working With raw Mp4 HD 1080/60i (all the same from the same camera)
    * w 1920 x h 1080
    * data rate 17029kbps
    * 59 fps
    * Audio bitrate 128 kbps
    * 2 channel stereo
    * 48 kHz
    * videos are about 500 mb in size each
MY CAMERA
    Signal Type       Signal Type       NTSC
    Storage Media     Storage Media     SDHC slot
    Image Sensor     Sensor Type     CMOS
    Sensor Size     1/4.1"
    No. of pixels     4.7M
    Lens             Optical Zoom     20x (22x)
    Digital Zoom     220x
    Display             Main Screen     No. of pixels     230K
    Video Recording      Recording Format     H.264 HD
    Memory Application     Memory Application     Compatible Card     SDHC
MY COMPUTER
    * Gateway DX4300-03
General
    * Type Personal computer
    * Product Form Factor Mini tower
    * Width 7.1 in
    * Depth 17.3 in
    * Height 16.3 in
    * Weight 24.9 lbs
    * Desktop type Gaming system
Processor
    * Type AMD Phenom X4 9750 / 2.4 GHz
    * Multi-Core Technology Quad-Core
    * 64-bit Computing Yes
    * Installed Qty 1
    * Max Supported Qty 1
Cache Memory
    * Type L2 cache
    * Installed Size 2 MB
    * Cache Per Processor 512 KB ( 4 x 512 KB )
Mainboard
    * Chipset type AMD 780G
RAM
    * Installed Size 8 GB / 8 GB (max)
    * Technology DDR2 SDRAM
    * Form Factor DIMM 240-pin
    * Configuration Features 4 x 2 GB
Storage Controller
    * Type Serial ATA - Integrated
    * Controller interface type Serial ATA-300
Storage
    * Hard Drive 1 x 1 TB - Standard - Serial ATA-300 - 7200 rpm
    * Hard Drive 2nd Drive Simpletech 500gb drive (speed unknown) USB 2.0
    * Hard Drive 3rd Drive WD My Book Essential External Drive 1TB USB 2.0
Optical Storage
    * Type DVD±RW (±R DL) / DVD-RAM
    * Disc Labeling Technology Labelflash Technology
Monitor
    * Acer H203H
    * Sylvania Flatpanel TV extended
Multimedia Functionality
    * TV tuner type Dual digital/analog TV
Graphics Controller
    * NVIDIA GeForce GT 220 - updated yesterday
    * Graphics Processor / Vendor ATI Radeon HD 4650 (not in use)
    * Video Memory 1 GB
Audio Output
    * Type Sound card - Integrated
    * Sound output mode 7.1 channel surround
    * Audio output compliant standards High Definition Audio
    * Speaker(s) 2 x Right / left rear channel
Networking
    * Networking Network adapter - Integrated
    * Wireless LAN Supported Yes
    * Data Link Protocol Ethernet , Fast Ethernet , Gigabit Ethernet
Expansion / Connectivity
    * Expansion Slots Total (Free) 1 ( 0 ) x Processor , 4 ( 0 ) x Memory - DIMM 240-pin , 1 ( 1 ) x PCI Express x1
    * Interfaces 8 x Hi-Speed USB - 4 pin USB Type A ( 4 front, 4 rear ) ,
      1 x Keyboard - Generic - 6 pin mini-DIN (PS/2 style) , 1 x Mouse - Generic - 6 pin mini-DIN (PS/2 style) ,
      1 x Display / video - VGA - 15 pin HD D-Sub (HD-15) , 1 x IEEE 1394 (FireWire) ,
      1 x Network - Ethernet 10Base-T/100Base-TX/1000Base-T - RJ-45 , 1 x Modem -
Phone line - RJ-11 , 1 x Display / video - HDMI - 19 pin HDMI Type A , 1 x Storage - Serial ATA-300 - 7 pin Serial ATA
   *note the red 'X' in the lower left hand corner, as well as the black bars. This is how it looks when directly imported into Premiere (mp4 file from the camera)

1. Open Premiere Elements 8.0.1 and set the project preset (new project dialog) = PAL AVCHD Full HD1080i25.
2. In the program, Edit Menu/Preferences/General, have a check mark next to "Default Scale to Frame Size".
3. Right click the Edit Mode Monitor, select Magnification, and have the set on "Fit".
4. Using Premiere Elements' Get Media/Files & Folders, import your AVCHD 1920x 1080 16:9 video into the program. (You will see your video in the Organizer.)
5. Drag your video from the Organizer to the Timeline. Are you seeing a 4:3 version of it in the Edit Mode Monitor?
6. If so, click on the Project Tab in the row below the active Organize (Blue) Tab to bring up the Project Media View.
7. In the Project Media View, right click your video in the list to bring up the Interpret Footage dialog.
8. In the Interpret Footage dialog, under Pixel Aspect Raio, dot the "Conform to:" and change the setting = Square Pixels (1.0). After you click OK to that, see what your video now looks like in the Edit Mode Monitor.
Miscelleanous
1. You can also use the Interpret Footage dialog for Frame Rate considerations.
2. Although the gspot read out does not give a reading for PAR (Pixel Aspect Ratio), the PAR can be calculated from the SAR and DAR values given since PAR = DAR/SAR and, in your case, 1.778/1.778 = 1.0. The DAR is Display Aspect Ratio and the SAR is Storage Aspect Ratio.
3. What is the duration (seconds, minutes, hours) of the video that you have been trying to use in Premiere Elements 8.0.1. You are working with AVCHD which is a very resourve demanding format, and it appears that you have 2 GB RAM installs that probably translates in much less available and you do not say how much free hard drive space your computer has. But, if the video in question is only of a few seconds duration, we should be able to work through this pixel aspect ratio issue.
courtesy of AT Romano...

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I don't think it's an issue between a wired versus wireless connection. Settings are pretty much as you've suggested and in the past there has been no difference between wired/wireless connection and I doubt this is the reason why.
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