No picture on channel change encrypted TV

[Ladotec]

Hi All,

Hope there is someone out there that is willing to help because I'm at the end of my wit's.

System:
Vista 32
GBPVR 1.4.7
1x FloppyDTV DVB-C + CAM
1x VistaView Saber HB-220 (Analog tuner card)
Haali
FFDShow
MPC-HC (incl. codec pack)
PDVD9 codecs

History:
I configured one digital capture source (FloppyDTV) and scanned for the channels. It found almost all channels which can be seen in the preview window. Besides the few channels that weren't found not problems so far.
I updated the EPG and mapped/enabled the channels.
Btw I live in the Netherlands and have the standard Ziggo digital cable TV package (Brabant/Limburg region). This means that all (except one or two) channels are encrypted.

Problem:
I start GBPVR and go to the TV Guide. When I select an encrypted channel (e.g. channel 5) to watch I get a picture and sound. But when I the try to change the channel by pressing the up or down arrow on my keyboard the picture goes black. I press escape and go back to the TV Guide. When I now select the adjacent channel (e.g. channel 6) to watch I get a picture and sound. So it seems like something is going wrong when changing channels.

During last week I have tried changing codecs, renderers, splitters, muxers which changed the end result from poor picture to no picture, to no sound or to no response (no channel OSD). I ran GraphStudio and looked at the Lastgraph.grf file. Checked the broadcasts in DVBViewer. Read through numerous posts. Anything I could get my hands on. But I can't get this issue to go away.

Btw switching to a non-encrypted channels is no problem.

When I select the VMR9 custom renderer I always get the message "This channel is currently encrypted" when changing to an encrypted channel.
The best result so far is with EVR, MPC-decoder (Gabest), TS Mux and FFDShow for audio. With this combination it seems to work sometimes. I haven't been able to purposely reproduce the issue so can't put my finger on it.

Can someone please help me to get this fixed. I've done so many things during the past week that I have lost my way and have no clue on how to proceed next. Perhaps its best to start at the beginning again and try to figure it out together with one of you guys. Is anybody willing to go through this with me?

Many thanks in advance,

Greetings Lars

[Ladotec]

After reading my own post I figured that I didn't provide enough info for people to help me. So I decided to have a look at the log files (I'm not good at this) and see if I could find something out of the ordinary. And I think I did.

Code:

2009-10-28 18:17:11.119    VERBOSE    [1]    Key pressed: Return
2009-10-28 18:17:11.120    VERBOSE    [1]    Activate@1
2009-10-28 18:17:11.127    VERBOSE    [1]    Loading key mapping: C:\Program Files\Devnz\GBPVR\KeyMappings\TVGuide.xml
2009-10-28 18:17:11.127    VERBOSE    [1]    Adding: Enter      GUIDE_ENTER
2009-10-28 18:17:11.127    VERBOSE    [1]    Adding: Return      GUIDE_ENTER
2009-10-28 18:17:11.127    VERBOSE    [1]    Adding: Up      GUIDE_UP
2009-10-28 18:17:11.127    VERBOSE    [1]    Adding: Down      GUIDE_DOWN
2009-10-28 18:17:11.127    VERBOSE    [1]    Adding: Left      GUIDE_LEFT
2009-10-28 18:17:11.127    VERBOSE    [1]    Adding: Right      GUIDE_RIGHT
2009-10-28 18:17:11.127    VERBOSE    [1]    Adding: ^Right      GUIDE_DAY_FORWARD
2009-10-28 18:17:11.127    VERBOSE    [1]    Adding: ^Left      GUIDE_DAY_BACK
2009-10-28 18:17:11.127    VERBOSE    [1]    Adding: ^F      GUIDE_PAGE_FORWARD
2009-10-28 18:17:11.127    VERBOSE    [1]    Adding: ^D      GUIDE_PAGE_BACK
2009-10-28 18:17:11.127    VERBOSE    [1]    Adding: ^G      GUIDE_PAGE_UP
2009-10-28 18:17:11.127    VERBOSE    [1]    Adding: ^B      GUIDE_PAGE_DOWN
2009-10-28 18:17:11.127    VERBOSE    [1]    Adding: PageUp      GUIDE_PAGE_UP
2009-10-28 18:17:11.127    VERBOSE    [1]    Adding: Next      GUIDE_PAGE_DOWN
2009-10-28 18:17:11.127    VERBOSE    [1]    Adding: ^P      GUIDE_PLAY
2009-10-28 18:17:11.127    VERBOSE    [1]    Adding: ^K      GUIDE_RECORD
2009-10-28 18:17:11.127    VERBOSE    [1]    Adding: F11      GUIDE_NOW
2009-10-28 18:17:11.127    VERBOSE    [1]    Adding: F1      GUIDE_SEARCH
2009-10-28 18:17:11.127    VERBOSE    [1]    getValue() loading new key/value into cache: /settings/TVGuideVisibleMinutes
2009-10-28 18:17:11.127    VERBOSE    [1]    getValue: /settings/TVGuideVisibleMinutes : 120
2009-10-28 18:17:11.134    VERBOSE    [1]    getValue() loading new key/value into cache: /settings/TVGuideFastRendering
2009-10-28 18:17:11.134    VERBOSE    [1]    getValue: /settings/TVGuideFastRendering : false
2009-10-28 18:17:11.134    VERBOSE    [1]    getValue() loading new key/value into cache: /settings/TVGuideChannelHeaderType
2009-10-28 18:17:11.134    VERBOSE    [1]    getValue: /settings/TVGuideChannelHeaderType : 3
2009-10-28 18:17:11.287    VERBOSE    [1]    ReturnToMainMenu()
2009-10-28 18:17:11.287    VERBOSE    [1]    TV Guide is currently active
2009-10-28 18:17:11.287    VERBOSE    [1]    TV Guide.Deactivate() called
2009-10-28 18:17:11.319    VERBOSE    [1]    Loading key mapping: C:\Program Files\Devnz\GBPVR\KeyMappings\TVGuide.xml
2009-10-28 18:17:11.320    VERBOSE    [1]    Adding: Enter      GUIDE_ENTER
2009-10-28 18:17:11.320    VERBOSE    [1]    Adding: Return      GUIDE_ENTER
2009-10-28 18:17:11.320    VERBOSE    [1]    Adding: Up      GUIDE_UP
2009-10-28 18:17:11.320    VERBOSE    [1]    Adding: Down      GUIDE_DOWN

This repeats itself a few times until this error.

2009-10-28 18:17:18.456    VERBOSE    [1]    Adding: F1      GUIDE_SEARCH
2009-10-28 18:17:18.456    VERBOSE    [1]    getValue cached value: /settings/TVGuideVisibleMinutes : 120
2009-10-28 18:17:18.467    VERBOSE    [1]    getValue cached value: /settings/TVGuideFastRendering : false
2009-10-28 18:17:18.467    VERBOSE    [1]    getValue cached value: /settings/TVGuideChannelHeaderType : 3
2009-10-28 18:17:18.568    ERROR    [1]    Unexpected error: System.ArgumentException: Ongeldige parameter.
   bij System.Drawing.Bitmap..ctor(Int32 width, Int32 height, PixelFormat format)
   bij System.Drawing.Bitmap..ctor(Int32 width, Int32 height)
   bij GBPVRX2.xb654004a5183e7df.x3b7cbb576b6ae64c()
   bij GBPVRX2.xb654004a5183e7df.GetRenderList()
   bij GBPVRX2.MenuTask.x9006c1ed9ccb79de.GetRenderList()
   bij GBPVRX2.x0061b801bdf12d35.xdb012c437aec4a40(Boolean xd23bf32f3b17e3be)
   bij GBPVRX2.xb979ad394703258e.xfb409e85bd292293(String[] xf18a926310372520)
2009-10-28 18:17:18.568    VERBOSE    [1]    Loading key mapping: C:\Program Files\Devnz\GBPVR\KeyMappings\TVGuide.xml
2009-10-28 18:17:18.568    VERBOSE    [1]    Adding: Enter      GUIDE_ENTER
2009-10-28 18:17:18.568    VERBOSE    [1]    Adding: Return      GUIDE_ENTER
2009-10-28 18:17:18.568    VERBOSE    [1]    Adding: Up      GUIDE_UP
2009-10-28 18:17:18.568    VERBOSE    [1]    Adding: Down      GUIDE_DOWN
2009-10-28 18:17:18.569    VERBOSE    [1]    Adding: Left      GUIDE_LEFT
2009-10-28 18:17:18.569    VERBOSE    [1]    Adding: Right      GUIDE_RIGHT
2009-10-28 18:17:18.569    VERBOSE    [1]    Adding: ^Right      GUIDE_DAY_FORWARD
2009-10-28 18:17:18.569    VERBOSE    [1]    Adding: ^Left      GUIDE_DAY_BACK
2009-10-28 18:17:18.569    VERBOSE    [1]    Adding: ^F      GUIDE_PAGE_FORWARD
2009-10-28 18:17:18.569    VERBOSE    [1]    Adding: ^D      GUIDE_PAGE_BACK
2009-10-28 18:17:18.569    VERBOSE    [1]    Adding: ^G      GUIDE_PAGE_UP
2009-10-28 18:17:18.569    VERBOSE    [1]    Adding: ^B      GUIDE_PAGE_DOWN
2009-10-28 18:17:18.569    VERBOSE    [1]    Adding: PageUp      GUIDE_PAGE_UP
2009-10-28 18:17:18.569    VERBOSE    [1]    Adding: Next      GUIDE_PAGE_DOWN
2009-10-28 18:17:18.569    VERBOSE    [1]    Adding: ^P      GUIDE_PLAY
2009-10-28 18:17:18.569    VERBOSE    [1]    Adding: ^K      GUIDE_RECORD
2009-10-28 18:17:18.569    VERBOSE    [1]    Adding: F11      GUIDE_NOW
2009-10-28 18:17:18.569    VERBOSE    [1]    Adding: F1      GUIDE_SEARCH
2009-10-28 18:17:18.569    VERBOSE    [1]    getValue cached value: /settings/TVGuideVisibleMinutes : 120
2009-10-28 18:17:18.574    VERBOSE    [1]    getValue cached value: /settings/TVGuideFastRendering : false
2009-10-28 18:17:18.574    VERBOSE    [1]    getValue cached value: /settings/TVGuideChannelHeaderType : 3
2009-10-28 18:17:18.675    ERROR    [1]    Unexpected error: System.ArgumentException: Ongeldige parameter.
   bij System.Drawing.Bitmap..ctor(Int32 width, Int32 height, PixelFormat format)
   bij System.Drawing.Bitmap..ctor(Int32 width, Int32 height)
   bij GBPVRX2.xb654004a5183e7df.x3b7cbb576b6ae64c()
   bij GBPVRX2.xb654004a5183e7df.GetRenderList()
   bij GBPVRX2.MenuTask.x9006c1ed9ccb79de.GetRenderList()
   bij GBPVRX2.x0061b801bdf12d35.xdb012c437aec4a40(Boolean xd23bf32f3b17e3be)
   bij GBPVRX2.xb979ad394703258e.xfb409e85bd292293(String[] xf18a926310372520)
2009-10-28 18:17:18.675    VERBOSE    [1]    Loading key mapping: C:\Program Files\Devnz\GBPVR\KeyMappings\TVGuide.xml
2009-10-28 18:17:18.675    VERBOSE    [1]    Adding: Enter      GUIDE_ENTER
2009-10-28 18:17:18.675    VERBOSE    [1]    Adding: Return      GUIDE_ENTER

This keeps repeating itself until I stopped it.

I did some more tinkering last evening and found a combination of codecs that gave me the best result so far. But the whole is still no consistent.

Hopefully someone can put me in the right direction?? Thanks.

Regards,

Lars

[Ladotec]

Hi All,

Is there anybody out there that is willing to help me with this.

During the past week I have been trying some more things but still have the same problems. When switching from one channel to another I sometimes get no picture or sound. The problem is that it sometimes works and the next time it doesn't.

I get the best result with EVR,TS Mux and PDVD9 decoder. As soon as I select VMR I get the "This channel is encrypted"-message, so EVR at this moment is the way to go. This does mean that I have a relatively slow channel change (2-3 seconds).

I have tried several short recordings after one another and they turnout OK. My conclusion for now therefore is that it only occurs in live-TV, but it could be that I have been testing this in the wrong manner.

I hope someone in the community will pick this up and give me some directions because I'd really like to get this working. I like the possibilities of GBPVR way to much to go and look for another solution.

Many thanks in advance,

Lars