system idle high cpu rendering hd useless... advice needed.

[tvshowman]

Hi everyone!

Thanks so much for all your help.

It looks like the system idle is always high on everyone's computer so I have mistaken that process as being the problem. It is not. However something is very wrong with my system and it could be the video card over heating.. I have no idea but when the High Def video starts to get all jerkey it is important to note that gbpvr's menus appear jerkey as well and my computer dosn't like to play video when that happens. Problems are slow audio or lost audio and slow motion frames to normal frames and jerky motion with audio dropouts.

Another important note is that when it is working the same videos play dead on with synced audio and no glitches or dropped frames. (recordings and conversions in progress seem to have no effect as it happens with or without them)

I have just re-installed windows XP.

Here are the steps.
Boot into xp cd and install fresh copy (not repair and also not format)
Xp installed...
install sound blaster drivers
install latest geforce drivers
install hdpvr driver disc and tme
install additional tme codec to work with gbpvr (have to also copy the dlls from the tme folder to windows/system32
install ffdshow (older version)
install hip
Install required gbpvr components
Microsoft Dot Net Runtime v2.0
Microsoft Visual C Runtime support files
install pvrx2
configure tuners and hdpvr guide etc..
searchwiz
mayhem skin.
webcams
rrs reader
weather
add ac3 line to live tv in config
done.

Plugins not installed this time moviewiz community skin

Currently all high def content is playing fine both recorded and live tv mode.

I am interested to know how other HDPVR users are installing their software to make it work with gbpvr as it doesn't work outta the box.

The only way I can view the HDPVR files in GBPVR is by in stalling the older tme codecs and copy the dll files into the windows system32 folder.

How the heck are you guys doing it?

Computer's been running fine now about 2 hours.

BTW - I tried the CoreAVC Video Codec 2.0 and the picture quality seemed very low as I can see pixellation on the walls and the tme codec looks clear and unnoticeable at 1920x1080. I can't get picture using the divx h.264 codec so I think I am done until my computer acts up again.

You can get CoreAVC here
http://www.free-codecs.com/download/codec.htm

Cheers

[stustunz]

when you click on the process tab doesnt it show whats pegging at 100%

[tvshowman]

Yes every process is below 03% and the only thing running at 99% cpu is the system idle process.

Rebooting the computer didn't have an effect if I recall as when I tried to play files again they were messed up and i could hear the hard drive cranking away like it was doing something even with no recording. But once it stopped doing whatever it was everything went back to normal. So that kinda puts the heat issue out but I don't have any solid ideas other than bad disc but the files play fine after...

I did a search on the net about it and found tons of people with a high load on system idle at 99% and they had sluggish menus and games sucked.

I'm not going to windows Update unless it happens again.

[tvshowman]

well for the next 3 days I experienced this dam stuttering for about 4 hours outta every 12 hours of tv I tried to watch.

I installed diskkeeper which turbo defragged the hard drives which didn't help...

I installed saf klite ccs and every other codec pack I could think of and ended up uninstalled them.

Finally I think I have found the solution...

regsvr32 ArcDemux.ax
regsvr32 ASVid.ax

It is too early to make a full conclusion however consider this...
before the registering
I tried to watch the Oscars and couldn't get part way through steve's and Alec's monologue without a weird slow motion effect that would popup making me mad as hell.

Now I have watched hours of the show and can watch it fine.

Thanks everyone

specs:
VMR9 Fullscreen Exclusive
total media extreme codec

(I Need VMR9 Fullscreen Exclusive so that I have the video inset and can browse gbpvr menus and search tv shows/rss/weather/webcams while still watching tv. lol)