Vista, Nvidia & VMR9 Custom

[Nebulus]

Hi,

I have just upgraded my machine to Vista and cannot make the new exe work for live TV.

I have 2 tuners, a Hauppauge Nova-T-USB2 and a Hauppauge PVR 250.

I have been investigating, have reinstalled (various times) installed the VC Runtime stuff (various times...) and still cannot fix the problem.
I have tried different combinations of playback settings (video & audio codec) and the best results (as below) are using the Intervideo codecs and Default Wave renderer.

When I run with the new app and try to view LiveTV from the program guide on the nova, the screen goes blank, then flashes back to guide, then blank. It stays blank until I move the mouse, then redisplays the guide.
Looking in the logs I see that it recieved a Divide by Zero exception...
Trying to do the same with the Analogue card just displays a blank screen with the OSD on top but no video (I think the sound works, but I cannot remember at the moment)...

I then started playing with the old app:
Scenario 1: VMR9 Custom
On the digital tuner, when I try to watch from the guide, it comes up with a dialog box saying divide by zero...
On the analogue tuner, it works the first time, but then hangs with a blank screen if I escape and try to watch another channel or the same one again. I have to kill the app.

Scenario 2: VMR9
It all works as it should... Displays video on both the analogue and digital channels...

Could it be that NVidia have changed the drivers for Vista and now the Custom work around is not needed or indeed is breaking things?

Can anyone else confirm these findings?

I have the following system:
Asus A7N8X Deluxe MB (NForce 2),
Nvidia 6600GT 128mb AGP Graphics card
AMD Sempron 3000+ (2000Mhz)
1GB RAM
Vista Ultimate 32bit

Also, on my XP partition, all works fine on the VMR9 Custom setting.

Cheers

Ian

[sub]

What video decoder do you have selected on playback tab of the config app?

[Nebulus]

As I mentioned, I´ve tried all of the possibles, but I ended up with the InterVideo Video decoder and InterVideo Audio decoder and Default Wave Out device.

I have InterVideo WinDVD 8 installed.

I have also tried changing the NVidia graphics drivers and it doesn't help. In fact with the latest beta drivers, the GBPVR exe doesn't even fill the screen properly when run with VMR9 Custom and window mode NOT checked...

I've uploaded logs, with VMR9 Custom and I'm backing out the beta drivers now to retest with VMR9 (Right now it's working for analogue but just shows a blank screen for digital :-()

Cheers

Ian

[sub]

I'm sure its related to the decoders you're using. What other video decoders have you tried?

Try this decoder: http://www.free-codecs.com/download/MPV_Decoder.htm

[Nebulus]

Sub,

That worked just much better! but... digital seems sorted, but on the analogue it works the first time I go in, but then shows a blank screen with the OSD each time I reenter LiveTV. To make it work again, I have to exit and reenter the App.

BTW, the new look and feel is fantastic, I love it.

Oh and just one last thing, with this set up what would you recommend for deinterlacing? Analogue is very bad...

[sub]

Oh and just one last thing, with this set up what would you recommend for deinterlacing? Analogue is very bad...

Deinterlacing settings are options often provided by video decoders. Just try them to find what best suits you.