MP crashes, TV stops till restart. (1 Viewer)

[zcubed]

Area: Media Portal Program
MediaPortal Version: 0.2.0.4 (2006-08-11)
MediaPortal Skin: BlueTwo
Windows Version: Windows XP (SP2)
.NET CLR Version: 2.0.50727
DirectX Version: 4.09.00.0904 (9.0c)
Audio Codec: ffdshow Audio Decoder
Video Codec: Roxio MPEG2 Video Decoder
CPU Type: Intel Pentium 4 - 3.00GHz
Memory: 1 GB
Motherboard: SiS-648FX
TV Card Model: Powercolor ATI Theatre 550 Pro
TV Card Type: Hardware
TV Card Driver: Latest
Video Card Model: Nvidia Geforce 7800 GS (256 MB)
Video Card Driver: 84.21
Video Card Resolution: 1152x864
Video Render Type: -
Audio Card Model: Realtek AC'97 Audio
Audio Card Driver: -
Synopsis::

MP works fine most of the time but there will be times when it will suddenly slow down and crash or it will shutdown improperly and when i restart it it cannot start 'my tv'. it always says 'unable to create graph' or something along those lines. is this supposed to happen with MP? as in after it suffers a crash windows must be restarted before it can read the card again? i have to restart my whole pc everytime it happens and it happens way too often. here is my error log:

9/12/2006 8:30:43 PM Exception ystem.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException (0x80004005): Error HRESULT E_FAIL has been returned from a call to a COM component.
at System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal.BindMoniker(IMoniker pmk, UInt32 grfOpt, Guid& iidResult, Object& ppvResult)
at System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal.BindToMoniker(String monikerName)
at MediaPortal.TV.Recording.SinkGraphEx.CreateGraph(Int32 Quality)
9/12/2006 8:30:43 PM Exception :Error HRESULT E_FAIL has been returned from a call to a COM component.
9/12/2006 8:30:43 PM site :Void BindMoniker(System.Runtime.InteropServices.ComTypes.IMoniker, UInt32, System.Guid ByRef, System.Object ByRef)
9/12/2006 8:30:43 PM source :mscorlib
9/12/2006 8:30:43 PM stacktrace: at System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal.BindMoniker(IMoniker pmk, UInt32 grfOpt, Guid& iidResult, Object& ppvResult)
at System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal.BindToMoniker(String monikerName)
at MediaPortal.TV.Recording.SinkGraphEx.CreateGraph(Int32 Quality)
9/12/2006 8:31:44 PM Command:MediaPortal.TV.Recording.TimeShiftTvCommand failed reason:Failed to start timeshifting
Unable to create graph time:46.875 msec

 

[mbuzina]

Hi!

To see exactly what it was doing, please post the mediaportal.log also.

Thanks

(sorry, up to now no better answer, except the classical: Try MPA/MPV Decoders).

 

[zcubed]

well ive tried using the MPV decoder and it has a horizontal flicker in the middle of the screen whenever the picture moves too fast so ive been trying different video decoders. right now ive found the 'HT MPEG Video Decoder' to work best in terms of not slowing down MP too much and no flickering when the tv is on. as far as the audio decoder goes i have to use the fddshow one cause the sound from my tuner card comes in very low and the decoder can be programed to increase the audio amplification of the source. heres my mediaportal.log: http://pastebin.team-mediaportal.com/10587

 

[zcubed]

actually it has not crashed since yesterday and the log contains nothing from yesterday so i suppose the log post is useless since it only contains things from sept. 13th. ignore the log post i guess lol. but i have noticed that different video decoders have very differnet impacts on MP's performance. should this occur? for example when i was using the 'roxio MPEG2 decoder' it literally took me over 2 minutes to scroll through my guide either horizontally and vertically. this is of course when the tv is on. i have found that the MPV decoder creates the least amount of lag in MP. still have a few decoders left to try. let me know if u have any recommendations.