DVBViewer - System Crashing, Blue Screens

[moistyman]

Hi

 

Currently have this setup

 

HTPC - Intel 3.0, Asus P5GC-MX, 2Gb Ram, ATI HD2600 Pro with Nova T 500 DVB-T HD Card, running DVBServer (for New Zealand Freeview MPEG4 h264, HE-AAC)

 

Main PC, - Intel Quad Core 2.4, Asus PK5-SE, 4GB Ram, ATI Asus 3850 Card

 

So i am usually streaming via Unicast from the HTPC to the main PC, which has 2 monitors, DVBViewer plays on the 2nd monitor. (works brilliantly when not crashing btw)

 

Randomly, my PC will just lockup using DVBViewer, sometimes its a blue screen, sometimes the PC just has lines going down the screen and have to reset

 

I have also gotton the HTPC itself to bluescreen using DVBViewer to watch Freeview.

 

I have tried 2 different h264 codecs from PowerDVD 7 and 8, Overlay, all the VMRs, reinstallation, different video drivers, and ALSO A NVIDIA 8600GT,

as i thought the card was the issue, Same issue with Nvidia cards and drivers. I even formatted and reinstalled both OS's as they were dew for it anyway, same prob

 

Support.zip is from the Main PC

 

Any Suggestions?

support.zip

Edited April 13, 2008 by moistyman

[Curlo]

I had same problem with Asus P5KR when I installed more memory to my motherboard, after that DVBViewer crashed to bluescreen. So check your bios settings: FIRST check plug&play operating system setting (turn it on), if it doesn't help test all the other which affect IRQ handling/memory handling/spread spectrum (test all one by one). If it doesn't help, test with different RAM amounts (usually ram problems aren't because of broken ram but because of incompatibility with motherboard, videocard, dvb-card / or with their drivers), because motherboard reserves system RAM for expansion cards and bluescreen is usually because of error handling in memory operations.

[Curlo]

My problem was just weird because it occured only in DVBViewer, so maybe there is something in DVBViewer memoryhandling, which shows all potential problems with system hardware, I don't know

[fritzmeier5]

Hi,

 

I have a few questions. Does it happen only be LiveTV and there by HDTV and MPEG-2 or does it also happen when you play a ts file from your harddisc?

 

What says Windows in the BlueScreen?

 

Why I'am asking this, because I have an ATI 2600XT and I get a Bluescreen when I have one (DVB Source says 2) discountinies in the stream from HDTV. The Bluescreen from windows says "ati...dll" is the reason. So I believe it is a problem by the hardwareaccleration. Today I try to solve the problem with changing the settings in the DVB Source Filter. In the hope to get no discountinies.

 

Best Regards

 

Fritz

[moistyman]

Why I'am asking this, because I have an ATI 2600XT and I get a Bluescreen when I have one (DVB Source says 2) discountinies in the stream from HDTV. The Bluescreen from windows says "ati...dll" is the reason. So I believe it is a problem by the hardwareaccleration. Today I try to solve the problem with changing the settings in the DVB Source Filter. In the hope to get no discountinies.

 

Best Regards

 

Fritz

 

Yes, a couple times when it has bluescreened, and actually written to the event viewer, it shows

"The driver ati2dvag for the display device \Device\Video1 got stuck in an infinite loop."

 

However this is not a problem with ATI, if i put in the NVidia 8600 GT, Infinte loop messages will appear with nv4_disp.

 

 

Havent had any issues so far playing back any recorded TS files.

 

I was thinking the PowerDVD codec, so tired v7 and v8, however lots of ppl in NZ are using DVBViewer + powerdvd 7,8 h264 codecs without issue on similar hardware, so shouldnt be that.

 

the powerdvd codec is the only one that supports our NZ freeview right now (MPEG4) so basically everyone with a HTPC uses it.