2008-06-17, 04:04 PM
Since switching to using version 1.2.13 I started to get audio codec issues in live preview mode; initially the video and sound would be fine, but after a few seconds I'd start to see stuttery video, broken sound or no sound at all. Switching to use AC3Filter fixed the problem on my desktop machine but the best I get on my media PC is broken sound after a minute or two before it eventually disappears completely and then I also start to get stuttery video.
Using time-shift mode fixes the sound problem with both PCs but introduces another - on previous versions of GBPVR when the TV guide indicated a new programme had started, the video would stutter and pause for a few moments before stabilising, but on the new, current version, the video goes blank from a few moments, the picture then returns but without sound. I can sometimes fix the lack of sound by changing channel and then changing back again. But sometimes changing channel will cause PVRX2 to freeze instead and I have to kill using the task manager instead. Changing channel at other times doesn't seem to cause a problem.
The previous versions of GBPVR didn't have these sound problems - although I did skip a few releases to get to the current version - but I'd prefer not to have to roll-back to an older version because I love some of the new features in the latest release.
I guess my questions are why am I getting sound problems in Live preview mode but not in time-shift mode and has anyone else seen problems like mine with time-shift mode around TV guide programme changes?
Thanks in advance.
Hardware and GB-PVR settings
DVB-T twin tuners on both machines
BDA Multiplexer: ATI MPEG Mux
MPEG-2 Video Decoder: ATI MPEG Video Decoder
MPEG-2 Audio Decoder: AC3Filter
Audio Renderer: System Default
Using time-shift mode fixes the sound problem with both PCs but introduces another - on previous versions of GBPVR when the TV guide indicated a new programme had started, the video would stutter and pause for a few moments before stabilising, but on the new, current version, the video goes blank from a few moments, the picture then returns but without sound. I can sometimes fix the lack of sound by changing channel and then changing back again. But sometimes changing channel will cause PVRX2 to freeze instead and I have to kill using the task manager instead. Changing channel at other times doesn't seem to cause a problem.
The previous versions of GBPVR didn't have these sound problems - although I did skip a few releases to get to the current version - but I'd prefer not to have to roll-back to an older version because I love some of the new features in the latest release.
I guess my questions are why am I getting sound problems in Live preview mode but not in time-shift mode and has anyone else seen problems like mine with time-shift mode around TV guide programme changes?
Thanks in advance.
Hardware and GB-PVR settings
DVB-T twin tuners on both machines
BDA Multiplexer: ATI MPEG Mux
MPEG-2 Video Decoder: ATI MPEG Video Decoder
MPEG-2 Audio Decoder: AC3Filter
Audio Renderer: System Default