Playback Pauses/Freezes, Then Resumes By Itself

[hasso]

Recently installed GBPVR on a new motherboard (Asus E35M1-M Pro) with Windows 7. Everyhting seems to be working fine so far, except for one problem...

During playback of a recorded show, playback will suddenly pause. After about 30 seconds it resumes by itself. While PVRX2 is in this unexpected pause it is unresponsive.

There don't seem to be any errors in the logs. Only thing I can see which could be of interest is the following:

2011-06-16 07:54:27.729 VERBOSE [1] Playback started: F:\NCIS Los Angeles\NCIS Los Angeles_20110614_20302130.ts
2011-06-16 07:54:27.730 VERBOSE [1] getValue() loading new key/value into cache: /settings/DisableComskipDuringPlayback
2011-06-16 07:54:27.730 VERBOSE [1] getValue: /settings/DisableComskipDuringPlayback : false
2011-06-16 07:54:27.733 VERBOSE [1] frameRate = 6.95335690062916E-310
2011-06-16 07:54:27.733 VERBOSE [1] getValue() loading new key/value into cache: /settings/PreferComskipEDL
2011-06-16 07:54:27.733 VERBOSE [1] getValue: /settings/PreferComskipEDL : true
2011-06-16 07:54:27.733 VERBOSE [1] getValue() loading new key/value into cache: /settings/RememberProcAmpSettings
2011-06-16 07:54:27.734 VERBOSE [1] getValue: /settings/RememberProcAmpSettings : true
2011-06-16 07:54:27.736 VERBOSE [1] SwitchInsetToFullscreen
2011-06-16 07:54:27.868 VERBOSE [1] Received event code: 14
2011-06-16 07:54:27.869 VERBOSE [1] OnPaint()
2011-06-16 07:55:24.979 VERBOSE [1] DisplayStillInUse
2011-06-16 07:56:25.167 VERBOSE [1] DisplayStillInUse
2011-06-16 07:57:50.343 VERBOSE [1] DisplayStillInUse
2011-06-16 07:58:50.421 VERBOSE [1] DisplayStillInUse
2011-06-16 07:59:50.577 VERBOSE [1] DisplayStillInUse
2011-06-16 08:00:50.600 VERBOSE [1] DisplayStillInUse
2011-06-16 08:01:50.662 VERBOSE [1] DisplayStillInUse
2011-06-16 08:03:05.500 VERBOSE [1] No key mapping found for: DOWN
2011-06-16 08:03:05.500 VERBOSE [1] DisplayStillInUse
2011-06-16 08:04:05.578 VERBOSE [1] DisplayStillInUse
2011-06-16 08:05:05.736 VERBOSE [1] DisplayStillInUse
2011-06-16 08:06:05.820 VERBOSE [1] DisplayStillInUse
2011-06-16 08:07:05.863 VERBOSE [1] DisplayStillInUse
2011-06-16 08:08:05.874 VERBOSE [1] DisplayStillInUse
2011-06-16 08:09:06.029 VERBOSE [1] DisplayStillInUse
2011-06-16 08:10:08.657 VERBOSE [1] OnPaint()
2011-06-16 08:10:08.657 VERBOSE [1] DisplayStillInUse
2011-06-16 08:11:08.717 VERBOSE [1] DisplayStillInUse
2011-06-16 08:11:44.245 VERBOSE [1] ShowMouse ref=0
2011-06-16 08:11:44.378 VERBOSE [1] Skinhelper loading image from file: C:\Program Files\Devnz\GBPVR\skin2\blue\OSD\pbsbbtn.png
2011-06-16 08:11:44.387 VERBOSE [1] Skinhelper loading image from file: C:\Program Files\Devnz\GBPVR\skin2\blue\OSD\pbrwbtn.png
2011-06-16 08:11:44.404 VERBOSE [1] Skinhelper loading image from file: C:\Program Files\Devnz\GBPVR\skin2\blue\OSD\pbpausebtn.png
2011-06-16 08:11:44.413 VERBOSE [1] Skinhelper loading image from file: C:\Program Files\Devnz\GBPVR\skin2\blue\OSD\pbffbtn.png
2011-06-16 08:11:44.422 VERBOSE [1] Skinhelper loading image from file: C:\Program Files\Devnz\GBPVR\skin2\blue\OSD\pbsfbtn.png
2011-06-16 08:11:44.427 VERBOSE [1] Skinhelper loading image from file: C:\Program Files\Devnz\GBPVR\skin2\blue\OSD\pbsubtv.png
2011-06-16 08:11:44.430 VERBOSE [1] Skinhelper loading image from file: C:\Program Files\Devnz\GBPVR\skin2\blue\OSD\pbclosebtn.png
2011-06-16 08:11:49.686 VERBOSE [1] HideMouse ref=-1
2011-06-16 08:12:08.829 VERBOSE [1] DisplayStillInUse
2011-06-16 08:13:09.001 VERBOSE [1] DisplayStillInUse
2011-06-16 08:14:09.146 VERBOSE [1] DisplayStillInUse
2011-06-16 08:15:09.311 VERBOSE [1] DisplayStillInUse
2011-06-16 08:16:09.343 VERBOSE [1] DisplayStillInUse
2011-06-16 08:17:09.366 VERBOSE [1] DisplayStillInUse
2011-06-16 08:17:24.032 VERBOSE [1] ShowMouse ref=0
2011-06-16 08:17:29.380 VERBOSE [1] HideMouse ref=-1
2011-06-16 08:18:09.572 VERBOSE [1] DisplayStillInUse
2011-06-16 08:19:09.636 VERBOSE [1] DisplayStillInUse
2011-06-16 08:20:09.640 VERBOSE [1] DisplayStillInUse
2011-06-16 08:21:09.695 VERBOSE [1] DisplayStillInUse
2011-06-16 08:22:19.655 VERBOSE [1] OnPaint()
2011-06-16 08:22:19.655 VERBOSE [1] DisplayStillInUse
2011-06-16 08:23:19.710 VERBOSE [1] DisplayStillInUse

The pauses seem to happen at the same time as the OnPaint().

Any ideas of what may be causing these unsolicited pauses?

[sub]

In dont know - I possibly guess it may be caused by the device stopping delivering data?

[hasso]

By device, I assume you mean the hard drive? Yes, that is on my suspicion list. It's an internal SATA Seagate Barracuda Green ST2000DL003 2TB drive. I'd expect that it should be able to handle playback of one file without these intermittent pauses. I'll move the file to one of the other "non-green" drives and see if it happens there as well.

I'd be happy to receive and pointers on what could be causing the hard drive to do this.

[sub]

By device I meant capture device. ie, if it happened during playback of recordings as well as live tv, then I guess it happen in the same spot each time, and those bits of the file are missing.

[hasso]

Interestingly it happens on a different spot each time I playback the file, and when it resumes from the pause/freeze it continues from the point of the pause (i.e it doesn't skip ahead). Playback pauses/freezes, PVRX2 becomes 'not responding', after 30 seconds or so, playback resumes from the point it left off, PVRX2 is happy until the next pause.

[ACTCMS]

There has been some discussion here about Samsung 2TB green drives - since yours is a Seagate, I'm not sure if it will help...

[Jaggy]

I have a similar problem, but using my NMT's, when playing back from my WD Green 1TB drive.

[hasso]

Thanks for the responses. Unfortunately in the thread it looks like the issue was never really solved :-(

[mvallevand]

I have a similar problem, but using my NMT's, when playing back from my WD Green 1TB drive.

I'd be interested in seeing your logs (in the NMT forum). There are several places in the playback code were I added traps to prevent something like a 5 second pause so 30 seconds should be really odd.

Martin

[imilne]

Thanks for the responses. Unfortunately in the thread it looks like the issue was never really solved :-(

Not in any sensible way no, but it's worth trying the following: have something recording in the background while you watch whatever it is that keeps pausing. If it works, then you'll know it's related to the HDD going to sleep. If so, then the program I wrote because of the problems I was having in that thread might help you too.

Iain