Hic-ups every 30 secs

[chud]

wow fiteclub, about all our systems have in common is xp and gbpvr. i was still thinking it was something related to my system's lack of performance, but it looks like you've got plenty.

i tried playing with the priority of both GBPVR and the recording process. nothing seems to help.

[capone]

capone,

I individually looked at every process running on my HTPC using the performance monitor. The only process that showed cpu cycles being used was gbpvr.exe and the gbpvr recording service. The gbpvr.exe showed a steady cpu usage of about 50%. The gbpvr recording service spiked every 30sec and corresponded with the video frame freeze. I am convinced it is the recording service process; unless someone can give me a better idea.

I'd try it anyway. I know I've seen this before, and solving it didn't come from looking at the obvious evidence. The best way to fix something is to rule everything else out.

[gomjabar]

I recently tried timeshifting and im getting these 30 second hiccups also...but backing up 15 seconds helps alot

[pBS]

here's that little prog i run to keep all occurances of gbpvr high...solved my stutter prob...uses almost no ram or cpu time...
it will also -high your mvp service...
it can be de-compiled and edited using the free util Auto-it 3..
somehow i think all this is connected to the new way the osd and video plugins are handled...since 94.x pause has been weird on MVP and background spikes are up..
hope this helps..

[fiteclub]

pBS

the above file is not really a zip is it? Just rename to .exe I assume?

[stefan]

Just to chip in, I also get these studders every 30 seconds to the second. And only during timeshift, which is odd, since I thought there was no difference between watching something timeshifted, and watching a "regular" recording while it is still being recorded (no studder there on my system). I also have pretty much nothing in common, hardware wise, with fiteclub.

[kaiger]

I've had a big hiccup every 20-30 minutes ever since the .95.xx upgrade. It coincides exactly with the following in the GBPVR.exe.log:
1/13/2006 1:33:52 PM.968 VERBOSE [3605] RecordingFactory.loadSchedule()
1/13/2006 1:33:52 PM.984 VERBOSE [3605] getValue cached value: /settings/AutoRemoveMissingRecordings : true
1/13/2006 1:33:56 PM.234 VERBOSE [3605] RecordingFactory.loadSchedule()
1/13/2006 1:33:56 PM.234 VERBOSE [3605] getValue cached value: /settings/AutoRemoveMissingRecordings : true
Just today I noticed I'm now getting the 30 second stutter as well. It seems to only occur with live tv. It's very frustrating since I have not added or changed anything in weeks.

[capone]

There is something that can be doen about it, because I watch only in tineshift, have the current version, and do not get them. This is not a clean install, but I think I did in the last version or so.

I have a pvr-150 card, use a dedicated system w/o a MVP, and a so-so powered system (1.8 Athelon). I use just thr default skin, and w/o the next recording panel. I do post-processing on the audio (so it can be passed to the reciever), but nothing on picture. I also don't run any real-time functions like comskip. All my extras and utils run using the *.bat files. Basically, I run a setup (both in functions and skin) that is probably closest to the old 9112 install.

Just hoping this may offer someone some clues, and some feedback that this isn't widespead.

One footnote: I did have problems recently w/ performance and some video tearing. It seemed to get better when I disbaled the screensaver and lowered the logging level.

I run an always-on system. I can't say for sure, but what I ended up wondering was if having it doing something at all times--either watching, recording, or even just the very small activity of the screensaver--was impacting perfomance on the whole. Since my main menu is a static screen (no time or next recording panels), and I turned off the screen saver, the system just does nothing during most the day and late night. Since then, it's been running perfectly again.

[wtg]

Listen all... 3 PVR-150s
<snip>
Tested all channels and heavy duty recording back to back.
All stations recorded with sound and quality was very good to excellent.

I don't think anyone in this thread is talking about recording... it's an issue with Live TV (most everyone, timeshift only). Nor has anyone said that it's happening for everyone, which I'm sure it's not. However, it is occurring for quite a few people, hence the thread and numerous responses. It seems everyone is seeing the same thing in their log, associated with the precise time the system hiccups.

Personally, my machine has a fresh install of Windows XP SP2 using a Athlon XP 2500+, with very little else on the PC. Regardless of the decoder installed (and I only have a 3), I get bumped out of Live TV in exactly 30 seconds with Live TV preview, and I get a hiccup exactly every 30 seconds in timeshift mode.

Incidently, I did not see this happen with my older pvr machine, a wee 1.1 GHz Celeron running Win 2k.

[murr]

I'm having the same problem with the DVR I built for my parents. Only while in timeshift mode, it stutters every 30 seconds for a split second. Just reformatted too.