Jumpy video (1 Viewer)

[bfrye26]

TV-Server Version: 0.2.3.0
MediaPortal Version: 0.2.3.0
Windows Version: XP-SP2
CPU Type: Athlon X2 3500
HDD: 160GB HDD
Memory: 1GB
Motherboard: A8N-SLI
Motherboard Chipset:NVidia
Video Card: 6600LE
Sound Card: Built In
1. TV Card: Digiwave 103G
MPEG2 Video Codec: MPV
MPEG2 Audio Codec: Nvidia

I am having problems with video on the TV. After about 10 minutes of watching it will start to jump and will continue untill I restart the MP. I have no idea why this is happening. I have tried many different codecs but it always has this same issue.

Any help you can give would be amazing!!!

 

[mikeahmed]

Hi there,

How did you get Digiwave 103G to work with MP. I'm having no luck with 103g.

Thanks in advance

 

[bfrye26]

I just installed the latest drivers. Once you restart the comp it will be found by TVE3

If you have any problems please ask and will help out

 

[the_it_bloke]

Hi
I see from your post you are using tv-server and media portal, but it's not clear if you are using multiple pc's (client-server) or all on one PC.

Anyway, just a few things to check which i have had trouble with;

There is a memory leak bug which has recently been fixed which causes the TVserver service to eat up all the available RAM. This will make the server sluggish and possibly skip. When its skipping, open up the Task Manager (right click the windows Taskbar and select Task Manager).
If you look at the Processes tab, tvservice.exe shouldn't be using more than around 100MB and at idle should be around 50MB (very approximately).
Also, if you are using MS-SQL, make sure it isnt using more than 100MB.
If either are taking much more that 'could' be your problem.
Check the Available RAM in the performance tab and this (again very roughly) should have at least 100MB (100000 in the display) available.
If this looks like the issue (my Tvservice.exe was holding 800MB RAM, then update to the latest version to get round the issue.

Whilst in task manager check the Performance graph for a peak every 17 seconds when the tvservice looks at the database. I had a number of recording schedules setup (particularly record a program at any time on any channel) which was causing the processor to hit 100 %and caused my programmes to jump. If you processor is peaking at or near 100% try deleting your schedules (particularly the any/any ones) and see if the processor peaks drop off and sort the issue out.

As I said, just some things to try.

regards and good luck !