BBC HD Problems Again

[John Hind]

Trying to use BBC HD on a Vista machine with Hauppauge Nova S2 satellite card. Luxe.TV HD works well, but BBC HD gives good audio and a garbled picture (looks a bit like an analogue TV which has lost horizontal synch).

 

I am using the CorecAVC decoder (v 1.3.0.0) and I have tried all the deinterlacing and deblocking settings without success. I tried all the other available H.264 decoders but all cause DVBViewer to crash when a HD channel is tuned (either Luxe.TV or BBC).

 

The computer is a 4 core Intel and CPU utilisation never goes above 30%.

 

Any suggestions? Would an upgrade to CorecAVC v1.7 be likely to help?

[Griga]

Here ok with Hauppauge Nova S2 HD and CoreAVC 1.7

[Griga]

After some additional testing: BBC HD is ok with CoreAVC 1.7, but not Luxe TV HD

 

Try the ArcSoft H.264 decoder, that is part of the TotalMedia Extreme trial. It can cope with BBC HD and Luxe TV HD.

 

http://www.arcsoft.com/support/downloads/d....asp#Trial_soft

 

BTW: Did you notice that DVBViewer displays Luxe TV HD as 4:3, though it is 16:9? Some new aspect ratio values have been added to the H.264 specs, that are not known to DVBViewer yet.

[John Hind]

After some additional testing: BBC HD is ok with CoreAVC 1.7, but not Luxe TV HD

Hm.. Odd that it is the other way round with CoreAVC 1.3 a case of one step forward, one step back?

 

I'll try the other suggested codec when we get our satellite feed back - problem with living in a building with a shared dish!

 

The Freesat web page says there should also be ITV HD which is a "red button service on selected programming" - is there a "red button" in DVBViewer?

 

Also is it a known problem that DVBViewer crashes when some of the offered HD codecs (including the installation default) are selected and one changes the channel to a HD? I found the program locked up indefinitely sometimes showing a progress roundal, sometimes not. Then when you try to close it it shows a Windows exception report. Do I need to report this as a bug?

[John Hind]

Try the ArcSoft H.264 decoder, that is part of the TotalMedia Extreme trial. It can cope with BBC HD and Luxe TV HD.

Thanks for this tip - I can report that it works well - beautiful in fact - on BBC HD. Hope I can go on using it after the trial expires, althoght I would pay modestly for it if it were available on its own.

 

Luxe TV is still AWOL (our satellite distribution system is flakey on the higher frequency transponders), so I cannot yet test this. This channel is aimed far above my wealth bracket anyway!

[Griga]

The Freesat web page says there should also be ITV HD

http://www.DVBViewer.info/forum/index.php?showtopic=26519

 

Learn to use the forum search / Google forum search!

 

Also is it a known problem that DVBViewer crashes when some of the offered HD codecs (including the installation default) are selected and one changes the channel to a HD?

No. Most likely outside DVBViewer.