Crashing when switching channels (1 Viewer)

[TuXRuleZ.be]

Area: Media Portal Program
MP Version: 0.2.0.0 RC3
Skin: MCE
Windows Version: Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005
CPU Type: AMD Athlon 64 3000+
Memory: 1GB (2x512MB Dual Channel) OCZ
Motherboard Chipset: NFORCE 4 - Ultra (Asus A8N-E)
Video Card: nVidia GeForce 6600GT 256MB DDR3 PCI-E (Asus)
Video Card Driver: 81.98
Video Card Resolution: 1024x768
Video Render Type: VMR9
Video Codec Type & Version: NVidia Video Decoder
Audio Codec Type & Version: NVidia Video Decoder
TV Card: Hauppauge WinTV-PVR-500 MCE
TV Card Type: Analog with Hardware MPG encoder
TV Card Driver: 2.0.35.23348

Synopsis:
I've been trying out MediaPortal for a couple of days now.
It looks nice and can do anything is need it to do. The only thing i have is that it's really unstable for me.

If is switch channel it seams to crash a lot(1 times out of 10)
This doesn't seem to happen when i switch of timeshifting but i'm not really sure of that. I haven't tested that much so it could be that it also crashes with timeshifting disabled.

1 ) Is this a know problem and can i fix it?

2 ) Will it run better under a plain Windows XP?

3 ) I do have one small other problem. The colors don't always synchronize correctly. It takes some time to get nice colors. I also have this under linux using MythTV but a lot less. Is this due to a poor signal on my cable?

 

[daveluccs]

Hello,

I'm experiencing the same problem with crash when changing tv channels with MediaPortal on MCE2005.

Area: Media Portal Program
MediaPortal Version: 0.2.0.0 RC3$CVS-08.04.2006-13:38:02,15
(2006-04-0Cool
MediaPortal Skin: Razor
Windows Version: Windows XP (SP2)
.NET CLR Version: 2.0.50727
DirectX Version: 4.09.00.0904 (9.0c)
Audio Codec: NVIDIA Audio Decoder
Video Codec: NVIDIA Video Decoder
CPU Type: Genuine Intel - 3.20GHz
Memory: 2 GB
Motherboard: D975XBX (Intel Corporation)
TV Card Model: YUAN PVR PG600-2
TV Card Type: Hardware
TV Card Driver: 2.0.17.91
Video Card Model: Nvidia Geforce 7800 Gtx (256 MB)
Video Card Driver: 8.4.2.6
Video Card Resolution: 1600x1200
Video Render Type: VMR9
Audio Card Model: SigmaTel High Definition Audio CODEC
Audio Card Driver: 5.10.4866.0
Synopsis:: -

 

[TuXRuleZ.be]

I'm testing it on Windows XP Pro now and i don't have any problems anymore. It seams to be a Windows MCE related problem.
However i didn't use the latest svn version on Windows MCE 2005 which i am using now on my regular Windows XP.
The distored colors remain but thats not a realy big problem as they only last for 30 seconds.