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<blockquote data-quote="swamprat96" data-source="post: 733654" data-attributes="member: 105223">Re: SingleSeat Mediaportal- TV dropped out and broken RESOLVED (I hope)Multitude of problemsI had prepared my logs to post and decided to try System restore again. That fixed the tv problem - but it was taking a very long time to boot. It would sit on &quot;starting TV service&quot;forever.After trying various things I disabled the antivirus completely (avast) and it booted fine. After researching, repaired Avast and fixed that problem permanently.So I was back to the relatively new AVI stutter issue. AVI's are really important to me as most of the content we watch is in this format. I could also duplicate it outside mediaportal by simply playing avi's in Windows Media player- and they all had the same issue. Updated the DIVx codes- no difference. Uninstalled the DIVx and reinstalled- no change. Disabled the antivirus again- no change. Reinstalled the audio driver (IDT- a real POS) - no change. Replaced the Sata cable to the HDD- no change.So I went back to Task Manager and saw I had three instances of Capture~3 running - using a fair chunk of Ram each. Researching told me that its the Hauppauge TV server. But that was disabled originally. Somehow it had been re-enabled. Killed it and changed it in msconfig so it would not restart - and (I think) I've got it.Looking at the shift+1 screen I get a jitter count of 2 to 3 and one dropped frame. However I don't recall what I had previously. Does that seem OK? It seems to play alright now.I've made a system restore point and hopefully thats the end of it.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="swamprat96, post: 733654, member: 105223"] [b]Re: SingleSeat Mediaportal- TV dropped out and broken RESOLVED (I hope)[/b] Multitude of problems I had prepared my logs to post and decided to try System restore again. That fixed the tv problem - but it was taking a very long time to boot. It would sit on "starting TV service"forever. After trying various things I disabled the antivirus completely (avast) and it booted fine. After researching, repaired Avast and fixed that problem permanently. So I was back to the relatively new AVI stutter issue. AVI's are really important to me as most of the content we watch is in this format. I could also duplicate it outside mediaportal by simply playing avi's in Windows Media player- and they all had the same issue. Updated the DIVx codes- no difference. Uninstalled the DIVx and reinstalled- no change. Disabled the antivirus again- no change. Reinstalled the audio driver (IDT- a real POS) - no change. Replaced the Sata cable to the HDD- no change. So I went back to Task Manager and saw I had three instances of Capture~3 running - using a fair chunk of Ram each. Researching told me that its the Hauppauge TV server. But that was disabled originally. Somehow it had been re-enabled. Killed it and changed it in msconfig so it would not restart - and (I think) I've got it. Looking at the shift+1 screen I get a jitter count of 2 to 3 and one dropped frame. However I don't recall what I had previously. Does that seem OK? It seems to play alright now. I've made a system restore point and hopefully thats the end of it. [/QUOTE]

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