Analog tv reception always freezes after a while (1 Viewer)

boein

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Hi all,

I'm using mediaportal 1.2 and have problems with analog TV reception/streaming. The setup I use is an asrock 330. MP TV-server and MP client are installed on the same device. When I setup MP my USB TV (pinnacle pctv 340e) is recognised and when I scan for channels everything works fine. After setting up the TV-server and MP config I try to watch tv, it works but after some time (1 minute, 40 seconds, 1 hour ... when it rains, the sun shines ...) reception freezes. MP still works, so there(s no problem with the application only the streaming from the TV-server to the TV-client seem to have crashed (although tvservice is still running). Most of the time it helps rebooting the computer but not restarting MP or restarting the TVservice, when just restarting without rebooting, MP shows noaudiovideodetected. I suppose this is not due to a problem with MPeg encoding/decoding or problems with codecs but because the -streamed-buffer file .ts is not created??? I was wondering why I had to reboot the computer and could not just do a service restart, I realised launching the TVservice again created a second tvservice.exe-process in my taskmanager, trying to delete the "crashed" is not possible "access denied". I suppose this could be the problem why me and a lot of other users get this noaudiovideo error. Problem is why? Is it some buffer-overflow, a network-problem? I hope somebody does because I really want this thing getting to work.
Also something different, when my TV-USB is detected it shows (device X, class X) this X is an assigned number and sometimes changes, when this happens, the TV-server thinks the USB-card is gone and I even cannot scan for channels anymore, deleting the cards and restarting the TV-server config shows the card again (with the new X-values) and I can scan for channels again. A bug or is this common behavior to USB devices?

Regards,
boein


PS in attach the reproduced problem. Starting MP going to TV watch a channel (works first time for some seconds) ... then tv freezes, go back to tv in MP start it again nothing happens and after a while no audio video error...
 

mm1352000

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    Hi there

    I think the first problem is most likely to be a software encoder problem. I'd recommend trying the ATI AVIVO encoder.

    Also something different, when my TV-USB is detected it shows (device X, class X) this X is an assigned number and sometimes changes, when this happens, the TV-server thinks the USB-card is gone and I even cannot scan for channels anymore, deleting the cards and restarting the TV-server config shows the card again (with the new X-values) and I can scan for channels again. A bug or is this common behavior to USB devices?
    Are you changing the port that your tuner is plugged into?

    Merry Christmas :)
     

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