MP crashes on BBC 1 HD (1 Viewer)

[jameson_uk]

For me the crash occurs in PowerDVD 7 H264 codec. I think this is possibly down to the way the BBC are encoding the channel

ITV1 HD / 4HD / FIVE HD are fine 100% of the time and it is only BBC that dies on me once every eight or so tunes

 

[doogle]

This may indeed be more than one issue. I get the microsft message when selecting BBC1HD from the TV Guide. I get a black screen if changing channel to BBC1HD from another channel and this might also happen when switching to other HD channels (the black screen that is). I tend not to switch channels from fullscreen mode as I think there are generally problems when switching decoders, for example BBC2 is mpeg2, BBC1HD is mpeg4 or h.264 (both these are DVB-S). Add into the mix the Irish channels on DVB-T - these are mpeg4 or h.264.

There may be something in the way BBC code it - is it time for a later cyberlink codec?

 

[jameson_uk]

BBC1HD is mpeg4 or h.264 (both these are DVB-S)

H.264 is part of MPEG4 (part 10 to be precise)

I don't have any issues switching between SD MPEG2 and HD H264 channels normally just BBC1 HD that sometimes crashes MP with "a problem has occurred ... do you want to report"? message with the details showing the problem is 264dsse3.dll

 

[doogle]

BBC1HD is mpeg4 or h.264 (both these are DVB-S)

H.264 is part of MPEG4 (part 10 to be precise)

I don't have any issues switching between SD MPEG2 and HD H264 channels normally just BBC1 HD that sometimes crashes MP with "a problem has occurred ... do you want to report"? message with the details showing the problem is 264dsse3.dll

As I say, that's probably a separate issue. The issue I raised was the Microsoft error message behaviour. That's interesting about that dll, although I use PDVD9

 

[jameson_uk]

As I say, that's probably a separate issue. The issue I raised was the Microsoft error message behaviour. That's interesting about that dll, although I use PDVD9

The error I get is the MS send info pop up you mentioned before. If/when it happens again select the show details (or whatever it is called) and see if it tells you any more info as to what file the crash actually happened in

 

[doogle]

Yeah, that's on my list to do later.

 

[RobNorthcott]

That makes sense. When I get the black screen hang it's when I've been changing channels from the mini-guide. I'll try a non-PDVD H264 codec and see if it helps with the "microsoft error" issue (although PDVD has always given a much better picture quality than anything else IMO).

BTW - I've had the "microsoft error" when trying to play back recordings of BBC1HD as well, so it's possibly not a tuning problem.

Rob

 

[doogle]

Would you believe it! I can't get the Microsoft pop-up to happen. I did notice though that if I change to a hd channel from MPEG2 CHANNEL I JUST GETAUDIO WITH FREEZE FRAME. Changing from hd to hd works fine. Does seem to affect videos also so looks like codec issue.

 

[wonkyd]

I've had no problems with BBC One HD here with the Microsoft H.264 Decoder in Windows 7.

I know you all seem to be using XP so have any of you tried the latest PowerDVD 10 decoder (included with SAF unlocked)? That apparently "fixed" a few problems with BBC HiDef channels.

 

[Jay_UK]

Hi there,

Everything seems to work ok for me too (Win7 x64 SAF5 PDVD10 H.264)

J.