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<blockquote data-quote="IkeV70" data-source="post: 333227" data-attributes="member: 73615">Thanks for the info KevL. I'm gonna check the video ram immideately when I get home tonight. Not sure which driver version I'm using now. The Avivo (or what are they called?) hardware codecs seem to be reasonably stable. BSOD's are fortunately quite rare, mostly occur when I try to revive the HTPC via remote desktop-taskmanager-kill mediaportal.exe when it's frozen during DVD or TV playback.Anyway, I prefer to use ffdshow for everything except H.264. The CPU can handle normal playback easily. I therefore don't care too much for hardware acceleration.The thing that bothers me the most: When my TV or Radio stops working (yes, radio also stops working occasionally, no video codec needs to be involved) I can solve the problem by restarting MP and TV Service. Why is MP/TV service not able to recover from the problem (no doubt hardware/driver hickup) without restarting? How can MP claim it's a hardware or driver problem when a simple restart solves the problem?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="IkeV70, post: 333227, member: 73615"] Thanks for the info KevL. I'm gonna check the video ram immideately when I get home tonight. Not sure which driver version I'm using now. The Avivo (or what are they called?) hardware codecs seem to be reasonably stable. BSOD's are fortunately quite rare, mostly occur when I try to revive the HTPC via remote desktop-taskmanager-kill mediaportal.exe when it's frozen during DVD or TV playback. Anyway, I prefer to use ffdshow for everything except H.264. The CPU can handle normal playback easily. I therefore don't care too much for hardware acceleration. The thing that bothers me the most: When my TV or Radio stops working (yes, radio also stops working occasionally, [B]no video codec needs to be involved[/B]) I can solve the problem by restarting MP and TV Service. Why is MP/TV service not able to recover from the problem (no doubt hardware/driver hickup) without restarting? How can MP claim it's a hardware or driver problem when a simple restart solves the problem? [/QUOTE]

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