Same recording issue in 0.1.3 and 0.2.0 - Solved (Kinda) (1 Viewer)

[jeffp]

I've used 0.2.0 since the beginning of using MP. About 3 weeks ago when any of my scheduled recordings would start the screen would get all blocky and very choppy. When I watch any of thsoe recordings they look the same way.

I uninstalled 0.2.0 and installed 0.1.3 and it has the same issue. Now if I just choose record now it all works fine. No choppy picture and the recorded shows are fine when watching them.

So any ideas why in the past 3 weeks this issue would just show up out of no where?

I had been applying the CVS's to 0.2.0 on a regular basis and when I removed 0.2.0 and installed 0.1.3 I just installed it over the old directory. Could there be an issue with one of the old CVS's?

 

[FlipGer]

Hi,

sure there can always be problems with the CVS. A CVS is an untested snapshots of the current work. Sounds like a problem with the setting of the encoding quality. Perhaps this was buggy. Littlebit guessing here. The TV engine is under heavy development currently.

Did you apply a new TV-card driver in this time? This could also have caused this issue.

Flip.

 

[jeffp]

No drivers have been updated since teh original build back in September. The only chanegs that have been made is installing .Net 2.o and a few Windows Updates.

Have there been any Windows updates in say the last month that have caused any issues?

I'm currently testing a fresh install of 0.1.3 into a clean directory to try and help narrow it down.

Edit: Ok a fresh install of 0.1.3 with the 8/26 CVS applied has the same issue.

Looks like there was a batch of updates install on 10/14 and then again on 11/8. If it's an update my guess would be something out of the 11/8 batch because I didn't have this issue untill right around the begining of the month.

Still doesn't make any sense as to why I can choose record now and it works fine but the scheduled recordings are messed up.
Any ideas?

Edit#2 Ok I removed the updates from 11/8 and the problem went away. Of course I wasn't thinking when I did and didn't write down which ones there were. I'll see if I can find out and post them so the programmers can look into it.

 

[jeffp]

Well.... Mystery solved. It had nothing to do with any updates or apparently any CVS. At around the same time I applied those updates I changed all my recordings to a quality setting of LOW in MP. That LOW setting is what is causing the issue. If I choose default then there is no problem.

So why is a LOW seeting in MP causing this? I guess we can close this string because I posted another one asking what the difference is between the quality settings on the capture card .vs that found with-in MP.