Live TV stutters then goes black

[ottoguy]

Not sure if this is a PVR issue or a decoder issue. After a few min of watching Live TV the video will begin to stutter. If you exit Live TV and re-enter, the screen is black with no video or audio, but does have the OSD. The only way to get anything back is restart PVRX2. I have tried different codecs and video card drivers. The issue came up after I was changing decoders and playing with the video card to get better quality. i have attached the logs.

[ottoguy]

I believe the issue is resolved. I had installed some Nvidia Performance Updates and this seems to have been the issue. I uninstalled them and it's all working now.

[smajor]

Mine does this on occasion as well... nVidia too, but if left to stutter and on the black screen, it'll actually BSOD in about 3 minutes.

I think it started for me when I did an nVidia driver update a few weeks ago, but it's SO intermittent that I can't pin it down. Logs slow that device "nv" stopped responding, so I assume that's my card.

[ottoguy]

I thought I had mine resolved but apparently I didn't wait long enough. Going to try to update the video card drivers since I see new ones came out today. otherwise I'm going to restore to a backup that was working.

[ottoguy]

I do see the below in my pvrx2.exe-native.log file:

2009-01-22 22:45:26.625 VERBOSE ConexantRecorder:one()
2009-01-22 22:45:27.515 INFO Key pressed: Up
2009-01-22 22:45:28.015 INFO Key pressed: Return
2009-01-22 22:45:28.015 VERBOSE m_pD3DDev->Present() failed
Error code : 80004005
E_FAIL
An undetermined error occurred

2009-01-22 22:45:28.015 VERBOSE DirectShowPlayerBase:top
2009-01-22 22:45:28.015 VERBOSE DirectShowPlayerBase:top finished
2009-01-22 22:45:28.015 VERBOSE Allocator shutdown...
2009-01-22 22:45:28.031 VERBOSE texture cache now has 0 textures
2009-01-22 22:45:28.031 VERBOSE DeleteSurfaces


Not sure if this is my problem or not?

[sub]

Not sure if this is my problem or not?

No, those messages are normal when the app is shutting down, and can be safely ignored. The error message is because it tries to update the menus on the screen one last time after the Direct3D is shut down.

[ottoguy]

I found the issue is with my PVR-250 card. I have cleared and re-installed the drivers and it hasn't helped. Whenever I start Live TV, then exit, and start Live TV again the card doesn't work, I just get a black screen with OSD.

If you can look through the logs and just make sure it all looks ok. Maybe the card is just dying, but it is odd how it works until you exit from Live TV the 1st time. I updated the logs with the newest ones.

[sub]

Make sure you have the 'deinterlacing' setting set to 'encoder pass through' then try again.

[ottoguy]

That fixed it. It also fixed my issue with scrolling text. It is perfectly clear now. Thanks again for all your help.