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<blockquote data-quote="Noelix" data-source="post: 94318" data-attributes="member: 18535"><p><strong>MediaPortal Version</strong>: 0.2.0.0 11-28-2006--18-52-Rev11956</p><p><strong>TV Engine</strong>: 11-28-2006--01-12h--Rev119433</p><p><strong>MediaPortal Skin</strong>: BlueTwo</p><p><strong>Windows Version</strong>: Windows XP (SP2)</p><p><strong>CPU Type</strong>: AMD Athlon XP 2200+</p><p><strong>HDD</strong>: 180GB Western Digital, 7200RPM</p><p><strong>Memory</strong>: 768MB</p><p><strong>Motherboard Chipset</strong>: KT600-8237</p><p><strong>Video Card</strong>: Nvidia Geforce FX 5500 (256 MB)</p><p><strong>Video Card Driver</strong>: 9.1.3.1</p><p><strong>Sound Card</strong>: C-Media AC97 Audio Device</p><p><strong>Sound Card AC3</strong>: </p><p><strong>Sound Card Driver</strong>: 5.12.1.50</p><p><strong>1. TV Card</strong>: Hauppauge PVR-500 MCE</p><p><strong>1. TV Card Type</strong>: Analog</p><p><strong>1. TV Card Driver</strong>: 2.0.43.24103</p><p><strong>MPEG2 Video Codec</strong>: Intervideo</p><p><strong>MPEG2 Audio Codec</strong>: Intervideo</p><p><strong>Satelite/CableTV Provider</strong>: Cox Communications (Basic)</p><p><strong>HTPC Case</strong>: Antec Overture II</p><p><strong>Power Supply</strong>: Special 450W SmartPower 2.0 ATX12V v2.01 compliant</p><p><strong>Remote</strong>: Microsoft MCE Remote, EU version</p><p><strong>TV</strong>: Zenith CRT</p><p><strong>TV - HTPC Connection</strong>: S-Video to RCA connection</p><p></p><p>I believe I have reproduced this action... You may have noticed my posts about livetv freezing up elsewhere on the forums. I have done all the tips and tricks things to help smooth video, and after doing them all, tv still freezes. I updated my video card drivers, everything. Here's what happens:</p><p></p><p>I go into My TV, tv guide, pick a channel, and begin watching. While previously before I did the tips and tricks, the video would just straight up freeze, now it slows down to a halt over a period of minutes. It gets choppier and choppier, until it finally freezes. MP is still responsive at this point, although very very sluggish. I managed to get back out to the main menu but when when I hit the "stop" button on the remote, something strange happens. The screen in the corner goes black, and then proceeds to flash on and off the screen for a few seconds at a time. MP is really sluggish at this point, so I'll draw up logs now.</p><p></p><p>In looking at task manager at this point, the cpu usage is only around 7 percent, but the memory usage is huge - 1.03GB, which is higher than the 768MB I have (meaning it went into virtual memory)! There is definitely a memory leak here. I've attached two screenshots of task manager. One when the blinking of the blank video in the corner on the main menu was going on, and one when I killed the MP process, you can see a huge dropoff in memory usage.</p><p></p><p>I went to open the log files and the error log was almost 68MB! I'll try and compress those log files and put them up on my site:</p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.noelestep.net/error.zip" target="_blank">http://www.noelestep.net/error.zip</a></p><p><a href="http://www.noelestep.net/MediaPortal.zip" target="_blank">http://www.noelestep.net/MediaPortal.zip</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Noelix, post: 94318, member: 18535"] [b]MediaPortal Version[/b]: 0.2.0.0 11-28-2006--18-52-Rev11956 [b]TV Engine[/b]: 11-28-2006--01-12h--Rev119433 [b]MediaPortal Skin[/b]: BlueTwo [b]Windows Version[/b]: Windows XP (SP2) [b]CPU Type[/b]: AMD Athlon XP 2200+ [b]HDD[/b]: 180GB Western Digital, 7200RPM [b]Memory[/b]: 768MB [b]Motherboard Chipset[/b]: KT600-8237 [b]Video Card[/b]: Nvidia Geforce FX 5500 (256 MB) [b]Video Card Driver[/b]: 9.1.3.1 [b]Sound Card[/b]: C-Media AC97 Audio Device [b]Sound Card AC3[/b]: [b]Sound Card Driver[/b]: 5.12.1.50 [b]1. TV Card[/b]: Hauppauge PVR-500 MCE [b]1. TV Card Type[/b]: Analog [b]1. TV Card Driver[/b]: 2.0.43.24103 [b]MPEG2 Video Codec[/b]: Intervideo [b]MPEG2 Audio Codec[/b]: Intervideo [b]Satelite/CableTV Provider[/b]: Cox Communications (Basic) [b]HTPC Case[/b]: Antec Overture II [b]Power Supply[/b]: Special 450W SmartPower 2.0 ATX12V v2.01 compliant [b]Remote[/b]: Microsoft MCE Remote, EU version [b]TV[/b]: Zenith CRT [b]TV - HTPC Connection[/b]: S-Video to RCA connection I believe I have reproduced this action... You may have noticed my posts about livetv freezing up elsewhere on the forums. I have done all the tips and tricks things to help smooth video, and after doing them all, tv still freezes. I updated my video card drivers, everything. Here's what happens: I go into My TV, tv guide, pick a channel, and begin watching. While previously before I did the tips and tricks, the video would just straight up freeze, now it slows down to a halt over a period of minutes. It gets choppier and choppier, until it finally freezes. MP is still responsive at this point, although very very sluggish. I managed to get back out to the main menu but when when I hit the "stop" button on the remote, something strange happens. The screen in the corner goes black, and then proceeds to flash on and off the screen for a few seconds at a time. MP is really sluggish at this point, so I'll draw up logs now. In looking at task manager at this point, the cpu usage is only around 7 percent, but the memory usage is huge - 1.03GB, which is higher than the 768MB I have (meaning it went into virtual memory)! There is definitely a memory leak here. I've attached two screenshots of task manager. One when the blinking of the blank video in the corner on the main menu was going on, and one when I killed the MP process, you can see a huge dropoff in memory usage. I went to open the log files and the error log was almost 68MB! I'll try and compress those log files and put them up on my site: [url]http://www.noelestep.net/error.zip[/url] [url]http://www.noelestep.net/MediaPortal.zip[/url] [/QUOTE]
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