Every 9th Playback Fails!

[Qucifer]

All,

I've been living with an annoyance since around 97.x... Whenever I start GB-PVR, I can playback recordings or live TV exactly 8 times... For those first 8 times I have proper OSD displays and perfectly synchronized audio and video. On the 9th playback, I get a stutter at the very beginning and then playback starts--but the OSD displays are missing. Playback on the 9th play is also very jerky, but watchable. If I restart the GB-PVR app, I get another 8 plays before it needs resetting again.

I've attached debug logs for both GBPVR.exe and GBPVR.exe-native. I can see something in the exe-native log about it not finding a video decode filter on the 9th playback.

I'm not sure what's going on here and would really appreciate some help!

Thanks!

[sub]

I'm aware of this happening with the Intervideo decoder, but I'm not sure why. For now just use a different decoder.

[Qucifer]

Do you have any suggestions on alternatives?

I uninstalled the Intervideo decoder, and now I've just got "System Default" available. When I playback now, I get a frozen video, but the audio plays. I also get a frozen OSD.

I'd tried the Cyberlink decoder--I never got an OSD to work there and the playback was jerky.

Surely there must be something that works?

[Qucifer]

And thanks so much for the rapid reply!

[Qucifer]

I believe I've solved my own issue...

This thread was helpful:

http://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.php?t=5600

The Ligos decoder seems to be working pretty well for the moment... It's getting me past the 8th playback fine. Hopefully I won't run into any other issues with it.

Thanks again, sub!

[TornadoTJ]

Please post where exactly you found that decoder, I'm at their website right now.

[TornadoTJ]

found it, their website is weird.

[Qucifer]

Actually, I'm having some new problems... Now I can't play shows that are recording, and the quality of that Ligos decoder leaves a lot to be desired...

Back to the drawing board.

[Qucifer]

Ligos wasn't the answer.

I downloaded the NVIDIA purevideo trial. So far, this codec looks as good, or better than the Intervideo codec I was using. I'm using the "VMR9 Custom Renderer". I believe this codec uses the hardware MPEG-2 decoding in the GeForce4 MX440 that's in this system.

If this codec works well for the 30 day trial, I'll definitely toss a couple of bucks their way to buy it.

I'll also be tossing some cash to sub, too. I've been using GB-PVR for a couple of years now and it's been great... other than this Intervideo codec issue that's been nagging at me. :-)

The only thing that would improve GB-PVR would be to make the core system open-source!

[sub]

The only thing that would improve GB-PVR would be to make the core system open-source!

Sorry, this is never going to happen. Lots of reasons, probably the most significant being the numerous non disclosure agreements I've signed along the way, but even ignoring these I wouldnt have made it open source anyway.