Bluescreen when watching HDTV - Live or recorded (1 Viewer)

[bryanford]

Hi,

Having this weird problem. When watching HDTV, whether its live or prerecorded, the sound buzzes, I get a stop error, and a restart.

Watching DVD's, downloaded video, playing music, etc works perfectly. The machine runs fine forever until I start watching TV. This happens both in MP and the Winfast PVR2 software.

The fact that media portal records full episodes in the background without restarting leads me to believe its a codec problem, and not a hardware issue.

Any help would be great! I'm a newb when it comes to codecs etc.

Regards,

Bryan


TV-Server Version: Whatever was bundled with RC3
MediaPortal Version: 1.0.0.0 RC3
MediaPortal Skin: Blue2 Wide
Windows Version: Vista Home Premium 64 Bit
CPU Type: Intel Pentium 4 2.8GHz with HT
HDD: Seagate Barracuda SATAII 320GB
Memory: 4GB DDR800
Motherboard: Asus P5Q
Video Card: NVidia 9400GT 512MB
Video Card Driver: Latest
Sound Card: Realtek High Definition Audio
Sound Card AC3:
Sound Card Driver: Latest
1. TV Card: Leadtek Winfast 2000T
1. TV Card Type: DVB-T
1. TV Card Driver: Latest
MPEG2 Video Codec: ffdshow
MPEG2 Audio Codec: ffdshow
h.264 Video Codec: Dont know what that is
HTPC Case: Silverstone LC20B
Cooling: 5 Fans
Power Supply: Coolermaster 550w
Remote: Microsoft MCE Remote
TV: Samsung 40" LCD 1080p
TV - HTPC Connection: HDMI 1.3

 

[globaldonkey]

Bluescreens are invariably low level driver problems. Make sure you have the latest ASUS chipset drivers and Nvidia drivers.

BTW, WRT your system spec, the H.264 codec is set in the same config screens as the MPEG-2 codec. By default it would be MPV. H.264 is what most high definition streams are encoded with. However, in Australia, our HDTV uses MPEG-2, so you are probably using ffdshow to decode it. A lot of other countries are using H.264 for both SD and HD TV.