System freezes

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Yes, I'm not saying its just VIA chipsets. The freeze seems to be occuring with quite few different motherboards. VIA are just one of the problem ones. I've not seen a definitive list, but you'll see people referreing to a wider list of hardware causing the problem on the SageTV forums.

I've not actually seen the problem myself, but its able to make the system freeze, then its definitly occuring in the drivers.

Strangle the linux drivers (ivtv) for this card also have a problem with VIA hardware. They've tracked it down to problems with DMA transfers. Lets hope its not a fundamental hardware problem, but instead something that can be fixed with newer drivers.

[tommo]

I totally agree. I'll keep trying different drivers and updates to see if this sorts it. Like I said, recording is fine so I can still use your amazin program!

[gplasky]

Look in your device manager and make sure your PVR350 is not sharing an IRQ with any other device in your system. If it is uninstall the drivers and try moving your card to a different PCI slot and don't don't use PCI slot#1, closest to your AGP slot. You may have to go into your BIOS and disable ports you're not using like th parallel and/or serial ports. Free up as many IRQ's as you can before you try reinstalling the card. And make sure in some BIOS you set it so the BIOS can update the ESCD or whatever it may be called in your BIOS, if your BIOS has this feature.

Gerry

[Guest]

Same issue here, using a PVR 350 in an Asus P4P800VM motherboard. TV out locks up as soon as the OSD display clears when playig a recorded video, or more randomly when watching live tv.

[MC001]

I'm using a PVR 350 and when watching LiveTV occasionally the playback stream seems to freeze (the hard disk is still grinding so I'm not sure what's going on).

The app and the os don't lock up, if I press BACK on the remote I get back to the menu after a couple of seconds wait.

When I go back into LiveTV it's OK again, although there is sometimes some pixelation occuring which doesn't go away until after a reboot. (This doesnt seem to be coming from the STB as flicking to another AV port on the TV shows a perfect picture coming from the box)

What progress with support for SBE? It'd be nice to have GotTV's level of sophistication in respect of LikeTV/Timeshifting.

Combined with the stability of the recording service, it'd make GBPVR even more of a winner.

M