Memory leak? Out of memory exception error

[sub]

That clip of bigmoose's played the narrative audio for me when viewed as "video". However, after loading your patch there didn't seem to be any audio at all.

You sure you have an AC3 decoder enabled? I got the narrative with bigmoose's clip, but the patch fixed it for me and now gives the correct AC3 audio.

[martint123]

You sure you have an AC3 decoder enabled? I got the narrative with bigmoose's clip, but the patch fixed it for me and now gives the correct AC3 audio.

A decoder is there in setup and appears in the logs. It also gives audio on live BBC HD which I think was the source of his recording.
Logs attached. First is playing his clip from 'video' followed by a bit of live BBC HD from the TV guide.

p.s. on the original thread title, when I got an out of memory exception earlier, n-pvr was running at around 1.25gb memory usage and killing it from task managed was the only way to say goodbye.

[BigMoose]

The patch fixes recordings for me, but live TV still picks the narrative mpeg1 audio...

[martint123]

I happened to spot "silence" on BBC HD just now and with the PCH could see it had both normal and narrative audio. (the PCH defaulted to narrative)
So I shot upstairs and sure enough, on the PC, narrative audio was being used.
I went into quick record for a few moments and with subs patch go no audio on playback, restoring npvrtsmon from a backup restored sound, but still the narrative one. Regarding decoders they are microsoft DTV-DVD for mpeg1 and AC3. I see now that E-AC3 is disabled and blank in the pull down.

[martint123]

Apologies sub - just installed ac3filter from ac3filter.net and selected it and sound returns with your patch. Sorry.
Live TV still narrative though. Although playing via tv guide or pending a currently recording show seems to get the normal audio.

[sub]

Hopefully this will get rid of the narrative for live tv.

[martint123]

That looks like it for me. Gave it 5 minutes and no narrative audio, but plenty of video that would warrant it.

Many thanks again for your time.

[sub]

Great.

[BigMoose]

Likewise - fixed for me too! Thanks also for all your efforts here. Handy that I didn't have to wait five mins to prove it - the AV amp tells me straight away it's chosen the Dolby Digital track not the narrative mpeg audio

[BigMoose]

As I made such a mess of this thread, introducing 3 problems instead of reporting them on their own, I just want to tidy it up by saying that there are two outstanding problems:
Firstly the out of memory exception - I've not managed to narrow down exactly what causes it. I think playing with the settings config does increase memory usage. Channel changing sometimes does, but I've also flicked through loads of channels and seen no difference... I think someone further up said they could cause it to happen with channel changing.
Secondly the audio degrading problem - audio gets very choppy after an hour (esp on mpeg1 audio channels, I'm not sure about AC3, will have to test). I assume it slowly degrades but oddly last night I wasn't sure if it had after 45 mins but by 60 mins it was really bad. A pause/play or audio track reselection solves for another hour (do both just cause a graph rebuild?). A few others here have said they have the same, so it's at least not just me! I use spdif to an AV amp - dunno about the others?