Black TV and other... (1 Viewer)

[muaddib]

I have trouble using My TV. My troubles are:
- Screen is sometimes black: I have sound but no picture. Switching on and off TV or going in and out of MY TV sometimes helps.
- When using record now nothing is recorded, the recorded file is only 9 kb big.
- At some point when switching off and on TV/live TV/recordings MP freezes completely and must be rebooted manually.

I have noticed some error logs, and tried searching in the forums but found nothing. Please help!

Area: Media Portal Program
MediaPortal Version: 0.2.1.0 (2006-10-21)
MediaPortal Skin: BlueTwo
Windows Version: Windows XP (SP2)
.NET CLR Version: 2.0.50727
DirectX Version: 4.09.00.0904 (9.0c)
Audio Codec: MPA Decoder Filter
Video Codec: MPV Decoder Filter
CPU Type: Mobile Intel Celeron - 1.70GHz
Memory: 479 MB
Motherboard: P4S800-MX SE (ASUSTeK Computer INC.)
TV Card Model: Sapphire Theatrix 550
TV Card Type: Hardware
TV Card Driver: -
Video Card Model: Sis 661fx (32 MB)
Video Card Driver: -
Video Card Resolution: 800x600
Video Render Type: -
Audio Card Model: Realtek AC'97 Audio
Audio Card Driver: -
Synopsis:: -

 

[Spragleknas]

Not sure if this is you issue, but I belive your gfx isn't a DX9-card.... which is needed for MP

 

[muaddib]

You're right in hardware, but it should be 'DX9 S/W Compliant'. Everything else works flawlessly.

I should also mention I have tried many combinations of codecs and with the 0.2.0.4 without the SVN build with the same problems.

 

[Spragleknas]

Often using large fonts in XP causes simular behaviour.... could this be the case?

 

[muaddib]

I am not sure what you mean exactly, but I have not changed the font sizes anywhere. Under Display Properties\Appearance normal font size is chosen.

 

[ronilse]

Hi,
muaddib, try running MP in Windowed mode & see if the same problem occurs.
Try also to enable / disable TimeShift to see if you got any changes.
The problem it's probably your 32M graphic card, minimum for trouble free MP playing it's 64M & recommended it's 128M.

Regards
Roy

 

[muaddib]

It is an onboard graphics card and uses shared memory, so I tried setting 64 MB to the graphics card. This did not change anything, but I will keep it there just in case.
Just after the change the following error reappeared in the error.log:
22-10-2006 11:25:56 328 [ERROR] PlaneScene: re-entrancy in PresentSurface