Cooler Posted March 17, 2007 Posted March 17, 2007 After more than a week of (trying to) use DVBViewer, I have to say I'm a bit disappointed. Mainly because I have still some problems unsolved and because of them, I really can't use it. After the first installation, I noticed the icons for shortcuts did not appear correctly. As minor issue as it is, I started to fear that there's something "incompatible" with my setup, as I can't believe this being a thing nobody did bring up before. Channel scan brought weird duplicates and placed one TV channel as radio channel, so I had to clean channel list a bit. First crash came under a minute, while browsing menus and I managed to finish channel list cleaning after 3 more crashes. Now, if I'm lucky, DVBViewer don't crash a seconds after opening it. Browsing menus may take it down and changing channel either does the same or picture is lost while sound still exist. On top of that, crashes are common and they're occuring apparently randomly. Even if everything works otherwise, I have video and audio stuttering and sync problems. It looks like playing a stream of audio and video with different(!) variable speeds. Because of that, I've not even checked if our (in)famous finnish text problems can be solved. Not to mention if I would finally get a much anticipated DVR functions working with DVBViewer. I tried even removing/cleaning all software and drivers for TV card and reinstalling them from scratch, but no go. TV-card is Hauppage WinTV PCI (Model 90002 Rev. C176) Currently I have to use POS software from Hauppage... and it's a PITA, but at least i can watch TV with it. Help for getting DVBViewer working would be appreciated! Quote
Gioxy Posted March 17, 2007 Posted March 17, 2007 (edited) Mmmh, your PC have plenty of codecs: I hope you haven't installed a Codec Pack, often it totally poison the DirectX... Try to set, in "Settings / Options / DirectX": MPEG Video Decoder: "CyberLink Video/SP Decoder" MPEG Audio Decoder: "CyberLink Audio Decoder" or "Moonlight Odio Dekoda" Video Renderer: "Overlay Mixer" or "VMR9 Video Mixing Renderer" Audio Format Detection: unchecked Video Format Detection: unchecked Two other sw can be responsible of your PC difficulty, Nero and FFDShow: try to uninstall it... Edited March 17, 2007 by Gioxy Quote
Cooler Posted March 17, 2007 Author Posted March 17, 2007 Mmmh, your PC have plenty of codecs: I hope you haven't installed a Codec Pack, often it totally poison the DirectX... Plenty? First time I hear that - I never install those POS codec packs, as they only tend to mess up things badly! Try to set, in "Settings / Options / DirectX":MPEG Video Decoder: "CyberLink Video/SP Decoder" MPEG Audio Decoder: "CyberLink Audio Decoder" or "Moonlight Odio Dekoda" Video Renderer: "Overlay Mixer" or "VMR9 Video Mixing Renderer" Audio Format Detection: unchecked Video Format Detection: unchecked I had to try few times, as DVBViewer crashed even before I found my way into those settings, but after that... After that, so far no crash! Two other sw can be responsible of your PC difficulty, Nero and FFDShow: try to uninstall it... Well, I can't live without those two. I don't install other than software I really need/use to my PC's, so getting those replaced would be a hassle. As in these minutes there has been no crash, sync problems and audio/video speeds seems to be gone, the future is looking bright. Thanks! Now I have to start looking for other "features" like some gibberish (swedish?) text rolling under the picture, etc. weird things... Quote
Cooler Posted March 18, 2007 Author Posted March 18, 2007 (edited) You're welcome... Apparently there still was slight sluggishness seen on one channel, so I tried another (InterVideo) codecs and they removed the last picture problems and corrected the brightness of the picture. I also tried timed recording and there was blocks/errors on picture every now and then, so i have try something else. Otter that, only minor annoyances left to tweak, so even now I'm quite satisfied. Bye bye, crappy Hauppage software! Edit: No blocks/errors in picture while watching TV, but something is messing up recording. When I have free time I have to try pinpointing the origin of that. With nearly 250GB free space on SATA HD, I don't think it's too low or fragmented HD space to blame... 2nd edit: Nothing wrong with recording itself, but timed recording is where things go wrong and result is practically unusable! 3rd edit: No solution found... so how does normal recording while watching TV differ timed recording? The solution lies hidden in technical/functional differencies of those, but I can't pinpoint it... Edited March 23, 2007 by Cooler Quote
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