Live TV freezes when I press Record

[serafis]

I've had GBPVR stable for many months now under XP now with my analog PVR150MCE tuner.

So I decided to try to see if I could get NZ Freeview to work, first with a no-name Chines USB DVB-T dongle off ebay (only partially successful) and then with a Hauppauge WinTv HVR-900 dual analog / DVB-T USB stick (better).

After many evenings spent trying to fix problems with jerky pictures, freezes, stutters, and pixellation related to signal quality, codecs, hardware acceleration and with quite different results depending on which USB port the tuner is plugged into, I *almost* have it usable except....

In Live Preview mode, when I try to record Freeview | HD the confirmation dialog comes up but when I click "Record" the picture just freezes with the dialog still present, until I exit PVRX2. The recording does seem to happen behind the scenes though. Other channels seem to record OK. I also get picture freeze if I change channels off HD and then back onto it again.

With LiveTV in Timeshift mode, the video and audio quite rapidly go out of sync by a very noticeable amount (on all channels), which makes this mode unusable.

Any ideas what could be causing these symptoms?

I'm using Cyberlink PDV7 H.264 / VMR9 for video and Monogram AAC /System default for audio. DXVA is definitely working on my nvidia 9400GT. Live preview delay is set to 2000.

Haven't even tried analog on the HVR-900 yet, but expecting this will bring a whole new swag of problems!

Any help gratefully appreciated.

[serafis]

The freeze when trying to manually record DVB-T NZ "Freeview | HD" channel appears to be caused by the "|" in the channel name which is an invalid character for the recorded file name.

Renaming the channel display name in the XMLTV file appears to have solved the problem.