Video freezes

[duckyy]

Hi,

I bought the AirStar Card by Technisat and after i reinstalled my OS, nothing was working well anymore.

I tried to play with the Radlight filter manager, installed older drivers for my video card, installed several times Directx 9c, etc...

Somehow, you could think I ---------------ed up everything but nothing changes and the problem remains the same.

The display freezes frequently, and when I close DVBViewer, there's a window called TV4PC which shows up for a couple of seconds. Im pretty sure this is the problem since I didn't have any issues before my OS reinstall and that TV4PC window wasn't here

The Server4PC also closes and opens automatically when I close DVBViewer, and I don't remember such a thing before the reinstall...

Please could someone help me, Im desesperate as it was working before, but not anymore, so I believe it's fixable (might it be a hardware problem?)

 

Thanks in advance

 

My OS is XP Pro SP1 with hot fixes installed

I have a 120Go maxtor HD with dedicated partition for video recording

nVidia GeForce 4 with AGP 8X (128Mo) with april 2005 driver running

1024 generic RAM

ASUS P4C800 Deluxe with 1021 bios

Directx 9c

PowerDVD 6 Deluxe (so using the Cyberlink Video/SP Decoder)

DVBViewer (Technisat Edition)

 

what else important, I don't know

Edited May 21, 2005 by duckyy

[astyl120]

Salut Etienne,

 

<personnal> J'espère que t u vas bien ! De passage à Cajar car toujours en "squatt", j'en profite pour te filer une piste de recherche que j'ai trouvé au hasard de mon surf aujourd'hui</personnal>

 

Quel est le type de ton processeur ?

>What's your CPU model ?

 

Si c'est du "bipro" de chez INTEL, ça viendrait de ton bios qu'il faudrait flasher.

>If it's dual core from INTEL, you'l have to update your BIOS.

 

ça viendrait du fait que l'OS, le driver de la carte et le processeur ne soient pas bien pris en compte (ceux tournant sous W2k seraient épargnés car W2k considère le proc comme un simple core)

>It's probably due to the OS which cannot manage well the HW combination CPU + dvb card (people running W2k don't have this trouble because W2k manage the CPU as a single core)

 

Pas sûr à 100% de cette "astuce" pour la DVBt mais c'est ce que les utilisateurs de cartes DVBs (skystar2) ont fait et ils ont eu des améliorations significatives.

>Not sure at all for this trick for the DVBt card but SS2 users (the DVB card dedicated for sat) have noticed improvments.

 

Cherche aussi du côté du service de management de la carte qui s'installe avec le viewer en le tuant dans les services et en redémarrant le viewer.

>Check around your services running to manage the card (kill the processes linked) and restart the viewer.

[Gioxy]

Look in the "automatic startup" folder and, if present, delete the link "TV4PC"

and/or "Server4PC": you don't need them and they often cause this kind of problem...

 

Also try to start DVBViewer directly from his folder and notice if there are difference in the behaviour...

[duckyy]

my cpu is INTEL P4 3.06Ghz, I believe it's a Northwood, then Im not literate enough to figure if it's a dual core or not, and anyway, i have the latest bios flash update. and it can come from the hardware (i think since it was working before with the same cpu/motherboard/videocard)

i tried also to terminate the server4pc process, but no luck. the most strange thing is that the freezes occur a lot more on a group of channels, not all of them