No picture on channel change encrypted TV

[Ladotec]

Hi All,

Hope there is someone out there that is willing to help because I'm at the end of my wit's.

System:
Vista 32
GBPVR 1.4.7
1x FloppyDTV DVB-C + CAM
1x VistaView Saber HB-220 (Analog tuner card)
Haali
FFDShow
MPC-HC (incl. codec pack)
PDVD9 codecs

History:
I configured one digital capture source (FloppyDTV) and scanned for the channels. It found almost all channels which can be seen in the preview window. Besides the few channels that weren't found not problems so far.
I updated the EPG and mapped/enabled the channels.
Btw I live in the Netherlands and have the standard Ziggo digital cable TV package (Brabant/Limburg region). This means that all (except one or two) channels are encrypted.

Problem:
I start GBPVR and go to the TV Guide. When I select an encrypted channel (e.g. channel 5) to watch I get a picture and sound. But when I the try to change the channel by pressing the up or down arrow on my keyboard the picture goes black. I press escape and go back to the TV Guide. When I now select the adjacent channel (e.g. channel 6) to watch I get a picture and sound. So it seems like something is going wrong when changing channels.

During last week I have tried changing codecs, renderers, splitters, muxers which changed the end result from poor picture to no picture, to no sound or to no response (no channel OSD). I ran GraphStudio and looked at the Lastgraph.grf file. Checked the broadcasts in DVBViewer. Read through numerous posts. Anything I could get my hands on. But I can't get this issue to go away.

Btw switching to a non-encrypted channels is no problem.

When I select the VMR9 custom renderer I always get the message "This channel is currently encrypted" when changing to an encrypted channel.
The best result so far is with EVR, MPC-decoder (Gabest), TS Mux and FFDShow for audio. With this combination it seems to work sometimes. I haven't been able to purposely reproduce the issue so can't put my finger on it.

Can someone please help me to get this fixed. I've done so many things during the past week that I have lost my way and have no clue on how to proceed next. Perhaps its best to start at the beginning again and try to figure it out together with one of you guys. Is anybody willing to go through this with me?

Many thanks in advance,

Greetings Lars

[Ladotec]

After reading my own post I figured that I didn't provide enough info for people to help me. So I decided to have a look at the log files (I'm not good at this) and see if I could find something out of the ordinary. And I think I did.

Code:

2009-10-28 18:17:11.119 VERBOSE [1] Key pressed: Return 2009-10-28 18:17:11.120 VERBOSE [1] Activate@1 2009-10-28 18:17:11.127 VERBOSE [1] Loading key mapping: C:\Program Files\Devnz\GBPVR\KeyMappings\TVGuide.xml 2009-10-28 18:17:11.127 VERBOSE [1] Adding: Enter GUIDE_ENTER 2009-10-28 18:17:11.127 VERBOSE [1] Adding: Return GUIDE_ENTER 2009-10-28 18:17:11.127 VERBOSE [1] Adding: Up GUIDE_UP 2009-10-28 18:17:11.127 VERBOSE [1] Adding: Down GUIDE_DOWN 2009-10-28 18:17:11.127 VERBOSE [1] Adding: Left GUIDE_LEFT 2009-10-28 18:17:11.127 VERBOSE [1] Adding: Right GUIDE_RIGHT 2009-10-28 18:17:11.127 VERBOSE [1] Adding: ^Right GUIDE_DAY_FORWARD 2009-10-28 18:17:11.127 VERBOSE [1] Adding: ^Left GUIDE_DAY_BACK 2009-10-28 18:17:11.127 VERBOSE [1] Adding: ^F GUIDE_PAGE_FORWARD 2009-10-28 18:17:11.127 VERBOSE [1] Adding: ^D GUIDE_PAGE_BACK 2009-10-28 18:17:11.127 VERBOSE [1] Adding: ^G GUIDE_PAGE_UP 2009-10-28 18:17:11.127 VERBOSE [1] Adding: ^B GUIDE_PAGE_DOWN 2009-10-28 18:17:11.127 VERBOSE [1] Adding: PageUp GUIDE_PAGE_UP 2009-10-28 18:17:11.127 VERBOSE [1] Adding: Next GUIDE_PAGE_DOWN 2009-10-28 18:17:11.127 VERBOSE [1] Adding: ^P GUIDE_PLAY 2009-10-28 18:17:11.127 VERBOSE [1] Adding: ^K GUIDE_RECORD 2009-10-28 18:17:11.127 VERBOSE [1] Adding: F11 GUIDE_NOW 2009-10-28 18:17:11.127 VERBOSE [1] Adding: F1 GUIDE_SEARCH 2009-10-28 18:17:11.127 VERBOSE [1] getValue() loading new key/value into cache: /settings/TVGuideVisibleMinutes 2009-10-28 18:17:11.127 VERBOSE [1] getValue: /settings/TVGuideVisibleMinutes : 120 2009-10-28 18:17:11.134 VERBOSE [1] getValue() loading new key/value into cache: /settings/TVGuideFastRendering 2009-10-28 18:17:11.134 VERBOSE [1] getValue: /settings/TVGuideFastRendering : false 2009-10-28 18:17:11.134 VERBOSE [1] getValue() loading new key/value into cache: /settings/TVGuideChannelHeaderType 2009-10-28 18:17:11.134 VERBOSE [1] getValue: /settings/TVGuideChannelHeaderType : 3 2009-10-28 18:17:11.287 VERBOSE [1] ReturnToMainMenu() 2009-10-28 18:17:11.287 VERBOSE [1] TV Guide is currently active 2009-10-28 18:17:11.287 VERBOSE [1] TV Guide.Deactivate() called 2009-10-28 18:17:11.319 VERBOSE [1] Loading key mapping: C:\Program Files\Devnz\GBPVR\KeyMappings\TVGuide.xml 2009-10-28 18:17:11.320 VERBOSE [1] Adding: Enter GUIDE_ENTER 2009-10-28 18:17:11.320 VERBOSE [1] Adding: Return GUIDE_ENTER 2009-10-28 18:17:11.320 VERBOSE [1] Adding: Up GUIDE_UP 2009-10-28 18:17:11.320 VERBOSE [1] Adding: Down GUIDE_DOWN This repeats itself a few times until this error. 2009-10-28 18:17:18.456 VERBOSE [1] Adding: F1 GUIDE_SEARCH 2009-10-28 18:17:18.456 VERBOSE [1] getValue cached value: /settings/TVGuideVisibleMinutes : 120 2009-10-28 18:17:18.467 VERBOSE [1] getValue cached value: /settings/TVGuideFastRendering : false 2009-10-28 18:17:18.467 VERBOSE [1] getValue cached value: /settings/TVGuideChannelHeaderType : 3 2009-10-28 18:17:18.568 ERROR [1] Unexpected error: System.ArgumentException: Ongeldige parameter. bij System.Drawing.Bitmap..ctor(Int32 width, Int32 height, PixelFormat format) bij System.Drawing.Bitmap..ctor(Int32 width, Int32 height) bij GBPVRX2.xb654004a5183e7df.x3b7cbb576b6ae64c() bij GBPVRX2.xb654004a5183e7df.GetRenderList() bij GBPVRX2.MenuTask.x9006c1ed9ccb79de.GetRenderList() bij GBPVRX2.x0061b801bdf12d35.xdb012c437aec4a40(Boolean xd23bf32f3b17e3be) bij GBPVRX2.xb979ad394703258e.xfb409e85bd292293(String[] xf18a926310372520) 2009-10-28 18:17:18.568 VERBOSE [1] Loading key mapping: C:\Program Files\Devnz\GBPVR\KeyMappings\TVGuide.xml 2009-10-28 18:17:18.568 VERBOSE [1] Adding: Enter GUIDE_ENTER 2009-10-28 18:17:18.568 VERBOSE [1] Adding: Return GUIDE_ENTER 2009-10-28 18:17:18.568 VERBOSE [1] Adding: Up GUIDE_UP 2009-10-28 18:17:18.568 VERBOSE [1] Adding: Down GUIDE_DOWN 2009-10-28 18:17:18.569 VERBOSE [1] Adding: Left GUIDE_LEFT 2009-10-28 18:17:18.569 VERBOSE [1] Adding: Right GUIDE_RIGHT 2009-10-28 18:17:18.569 VERBOSE [1] Adding: ^Right GUIDE_DAY_FORWARD 2009-10-28 18:17:18.569 VERBOSE [1] Adding: ^Left GUIDE_DAY_BACK 2009-10-28 18:17:18.569 VERBOSE [1] Adding: ^F GUIDE_PAGE_FORWARD 2009-10-28 18:17:18.569 VERBOSE [1] Adding: ^D GUIDE_PAGE_BACK 2009-10-28 18:17:18.569 VERBOSE [1] Adding: ^G GUIDE_PAGE_UP 2009-10-28 18:17:18.569 VERBOSE [1] Adding: ^B GUIDE_PAGE_DOWN 2009-10-28 18:17:18.569 VERBOSE [1] Adding: PageUp GUIDE_PAGE_UP 2009-10-28 18:17:18.569 VERBOSE [1] Adding: Next GUIDE_PAGE_DOWN 2009-10-28 18:17:18.569 VERBOSE [1] Adding: ^P GUIDE_PLAY 2009-10-28 18:17:18.569 VERBOSE [1] Adding: ^K GUIDE_RECORD 2009-10-28 18:17:18.569 VERBOSE [1] Adding: F11 GUIDE_NOW 2009-10-28 18:17:18.569 VERBOSE [1] Adding: F1 GUIDE_SEARCH 2009-10-28 18:17:18.569 VERBOSE [1] getValue cached value: /settings/TVGuideVisibleMinutes : 120 2009-10-28 18:17:18.574 VERBOSE [1] getValue cached value: /settings/TVGuideFastRendering : false 2009-10-28 18:17:18.574 VERBOSE [1] getValue cached value: /settings/TVGuideChannelHeaderType : 3 2009-10-28 18:17:18.675 ERROR [1] Unexpected error: System.ArgumentException: Ongeldige parameter. bij System.Drawing.Bitmap..ctor(Int32 width, Int32 height, PixelFormat format) bij System.Drawing.Bitmap..ctor(Int32 width, Int32 height) bij GBPVRX2.xb654004a5183e7df.x3b7cbb576b6ae64c() bij GBPVRX2.xb654004a5183e7df.GetRenderList() bij GBPVRX2.MenuTask.x9006c1ed9ccb79de.GetRenderList() bij GBPVRX2.x0061b801bdf12d35.xdb012c437aec4a40(Boolean xd23bf32f3b17e3be) bij GBPVRX2.xb979ad394703258e.xfb409e85bd292293(String[] xf18a926310372520) 2009-10-28 18:17:18.675 VERBOSE [1] Loading key mapping: C:\Program Files\Devnz\GBPVR\KeyMappings\TVGuide.xml 2009-10-28 18:17:18.675 VERBOSE [1] Adding: Enter GUIDE_ENTER 2009-10-28 18:17:18.675 VERBOSE [1] Adding: Return GUIDE_ENTER This keeps repeating itself until I stopped it.

I did some more tinkering last evening and found a combination of codecs that gave me the best result so far. But the whole is still no consistent.

Hopefully someone can put me in the right direction?? Thanks.

Regards,

Lars

[Ladotec]

Hi All,

Is there anybody out there that is willing to help me with this.

During the past week I have been trying some more things but still have the same problems. When switching from one channel to another I sometimes get no picture or sound. The problem is that it sometimes works and the next time it doesn't.

I get the best result with EVR,TS Mux and PDVD9 decoder. As soon as I select VMR I get the "This channel is encrypted"-message, so EVR at this moment is the way to go. This does mean that I have a relatively slow channel change (2-3 seconds).

I have tried several short recordings after one another and they turnout OK. My conclusion for now therefore is that it only occurs in live-TV, but it could be that I have been testing this in the wrong manner.

I hope someone in the community will pick this up and give me some directions because I'd really like to get this working. I like the possibilities of GBPVR way to much to go and look for another solution.

Many thanks in advance,

Lars