LiveTV Problem After one hour (1 Viewer)

[druid9]

Need to update my System Specs

Client for Mepo is now Acer Revo 3610 ION 330
Codecs used - various trying to solve this issue
Video Renderer vmr9 - cannot use EVR, massive frame drop

After about one hour of watching LiveTV I get drastic pixelation, massive frame drop and then TV basically stalls.
If I stop the TV and then restart, all is good. If I rewind TV then play it will get to the glitch point, then start misbehaving again

I have attached TS Reader log, which shows lots of

01-09-2010 21:31:24.023 [7ac]Video Continuity error... 5 ( prev d )

I also have lots of

01-09-2010 21:25:13.577 [89c]memorybufferut full buffer (12583592)

I know I need full logs, but was not in a position to collect them. This issue is completely reproducable, and no doubt when SWMBO sits down to watch Friday Night Crime tonight, I will get that burning sensation in the side of my head about one hour into the show as it falls in a heap again. Will try to collect logs and identify the time.

Please help, WAF plummeting (again)

 

[Cousin_Jerry]

Finally someone with the same issue as me! See here: https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/...v-channel-left-unchanged-logs-attached-85876/

I too am using the Acer 3610 as the client. Not sure what it could be though.

 

[druid9]

Seems to be the same issue. Which Codec you using for LiveTV?

VMR9 or EVR as Video Renderer

Have you tried Owlsroost dshowhelper?

2gb or 4Gb RAM on your Revo?

Nvidia Drivers up to date?

Lets see if we can work on this together, must be a solution

OK. looked at your specs. I have 4Gb RAM in my Revo, so we can eliminate your 2Gb as an issue.

I am outputting via HDMI to a Sony 32" LCD so we can eliminate your VGA connection as an issue

Which Skin do you use on the client? Any other plugins installed? FanArt handler in use?

I assume you have Win7 on the revo?

Network hardwired? Static IP address?

Someone smarter than me could probably get all this from your logs, but until they wander by thought I would ask.

Just a thought, wonder if it is a power settings issue?

 

[Owlsroost]

You could try the 'avoiding RTSP' option mentioned by romuz here - https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/bugreports-74/stuttering-after-10-min-livetv-hd-playing-seeking-beyond-end-position-86119/#post651667

Tony

 

[druid9]

Thanks Tony, gave that a try and will see if it helps. Watched a couple of hours of LiveTV last night, and the problem appeared right on cue. Almost as if the Client machine is playing the file slower than it is being delivered. When the stuttering appeared if I timeshifted to the end it appeared to fix itself.

I am still not convinced that there is not a further issue with the client machine though. I can find no way to make EVR run smoothly. I thought maybe the RTSP no setting might have fixed this also, but no joy.

I have attached logs from a MePo session running VMR9 and another with EVR on the same LiveTV channel. With VMR9 no dropped frames, with EVR about one in 3 frames dropped.

Getting to the point of desparate with this, because using VMR9 produces problems with the MePo GUI (Indigo Skin).

Any thoughts/help you might have would be very much appreciated

 

[Owlsroost]

From the evr.log, it looks like a performance issue - the 'paint' times (basically, how long it takes to render a frame to the screen) are greater than the display cycle time (20ms), so it will drop frames frequently.

The rendering overhead of EVR + 'Aero' desktop is higher than VMR9 - have you tried PDVD decoder, or turning off Aero ?

If you play a .ts file locally (rather than over the network) is that any better ?

Tony

 

[druid9]

ThAnks for the reply

I believe playing a .ts even over the network via recorded tv is better,will test.

Thought i needed aero on?

 

[druid9]

So tried no rtsp, TV works, but no improvement.

Tried a complete MP reinstall, no improvement

Tried different codecs, no improvement,

Turned of Aero, no improvement.

Installed Disaster's MP Edition, which would have Owlsroost's improved dshowhelper, some improvement, but not a great deal.

I am not sure how much further to go with this, maybe just ditch the machine as not being powerful enough, which according to everything I have read, it should be.

Considering whether to downgrade to XP, that might make a difference, but is a big step, and I am a little reluctant. Won't affect my usage case though as the machine is exclusively a MP client.

Any other thoughts before I take this step?

This client is hardwired to the router, and I have another less powerful client (ASUS_Mini_PC_Nova_Lite_PX24) running flawlessly on an ethernet over power setup in XP, go figure. There must be something about Mediaportal and ION judging by the number of posts on this forum complaining of troubles. For the record, mine is 4Gb RAM and running Win7 64- Bit.

 

[dynamic]

Hi,

generally an ION-Platform has sufficient horsepower to support Mediaportal with regular SD & HD content ( both Live-Tv as well as Videos ).

I am using an A330ION with W7 64bit, 4GB RAM and don't have such issues as you describe ( Skin: MPStream )

There may be some issues on the Acer Revo Board though ( I know of a friend, who has sent in his box three time due to occasional BlueScreens due to "KernelPower" Errors and the box is still not stable ... )

Regards
dynamic

 

[glenn 1990]

I found that cpu spikes (when grapping epg, ..) on the server caused stutter on my client.
And then it keeps stuttering until a channelchange or skipping back.

With non rtsp streaming (unc) went it away.
Disable the idle epg grapper can solve this to.