[confirm] random TV stuttering and freezes (1 Viewer)

[HDnewt]

Living room client:
MediaPortal Version: 1.1.0. RC1
MediaPortal Skin: Blue3 on all Systems
Windows Version: Windows Vista Home Pro 64bit
CPU Type: AMD Athlon X2 5200+ EE (2x 2,6GHz)
HDD: Western Digital 300GB
Memory: 2GB DDR2 800MHz
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-M57SLI-S4
Video Card: Zotac GeForce GTX 260² 216 Core
Video Card Driver: 196.21
Sound Card: Creative Audigy2ZS
Sound Card AC3:
Sound Card Driver: Installation-CD
MPEG2 Video Codec: PowerDVD 7 Ultra
MPEG2 Audio Codec: MPC
h.264 Video Codec: PowerDVD 7 Ultra
Satelite/CableTV Provider: Astra 19.2°E, Hotbird 13°E
HTPC Case:
Cooling: ThermalRight
Power Supply: Seasonic
Remote: Microsoft MCE Remote
TV: Sony CRT, Samsung SyncMaster 2493HM
TV - HTPC Connection: S-Video, DVI

server:
Intel Atom N270
2GB DDR2 RAM
1,5TB WesternDigital HDD
Windows Buisness 32bits
1. TV Card: DE FloppyDTV S2
1. TV Card Type: DVB-S
1. TV Card Driver: 5.7N
2. TV Card: DE FloppyDTV S2
2. TV Card Type: DVB-S
2. TV Card Driver: 5.7N
3. TV Card:
3. TV Card Type:
3. TV Card Driver:
4. TV Card:
4. TV Card Type:
4. TV Card Driver:

Hello,

i am using MediaPortal for years now and installed the 1.1 RC1 last week. The TV server is an Intel Atom with 2GB RAM, the 2 DigitalEverywhere FloppyDTV S2 cards (newest firmware and drivers) and windows vista business 32bit. Windows Vista Home Pro 64bit runs on the living room client and Windows XP Pro on the other client. I tried the RC1 with my two clients and get stuttering and freezes at rondom times (on both clients). It becomes unusable this way. It just happens after a while, 3minutes or an houre after starting to watch TV. Sometimes short video and audio stutterings occur, sometimes the picture+audio freeze at all and i need to restart the client (3 times the server too).

logs attached
hdnewt

 

[HDnewt]

AW: random TV stuttering and freezes

I thought it could be a problem with my old PowerDVD 7, so i tried the MPC decoder, but the problem occured with it too. I watched one channel for 15minutes and it started to stutter hard again (1 frame/5sec).

 

[tourettes]

TsReader.log is full off:

17-03-2010 01:23:30.671 [c98]Audio Continuity error... b ( prev 9 )
17-03-2010 01:23:30.687 [c98]vid:set discontinuity
17-03-2010 01:23:30.781 [c98]Video Continuity error... 2 ( prev 4 )
17-03-2010 01:23:30.781 [c98]Audio Continuity error... 9 ( prev 7 )
17-03-2010 01:23:30.781 [c98]vid:set discontinuity
17-03-2010 01:23:30.890 [c98]Video Continuity error... b ( prev 5 )
17-03-2010 01:23:30.890 [c98]Audio Continuity error... 9 ( prev 7 )
17-03-2010 01:23:30.906 [c98]vid:set discontinuity
17-03-2010 01:23:31.000 [c98]Video Continuity error... 0 ( prev e )
17-03-2010 01:23:31.000 [c98]Audio Continuity error... 9 ( prev 7 )
17-03-2010 01:23:31.109 [44c]Video Continuity error... e ( prev 7 )
17-03-2010 01:23:31.109 [c98]vid:set discontinuity

99% cause for such is bad signal.

 

[HDnewt]

AW: random TV stuttering and freezes

Hm ok, so I will have to reconfigure the sat mirror. I tried DVB-T with my notebook as tv-server. I watched 3 houres without any problem, so the problem seems to be my sat installation.
But I wonder a bit about it, MediaPortal telles the signal level is good, i attached a screen shot.

 

[HDnewt]

AW: random TV stuttering and freezes

Ok i got lower levels later... Is that less than MP would need?

 

[tourettes]

Re: AW: random TV stuttering and freezes

Ok i got lower levels later... Is that less than MP would need?

Unfortunately BDA drivers report the signal's level & quality values in various ways (depending on the manufacturer and HW itself) so all those meters are showing is a comparable value when you adjust the signal -> worse or better. But nothing that would indicate if the quality is too bad.