HELP! GB-PVR freezes during playback

[Mr. Cantrell]

GB-PVR seems to freeze at a random time while I'm watching a recorded show. The only thing I'm able to do is use the Task Manager to force GB-PVR to shut down.

I'm running Version 0.99.5 with ComSkip, BleepBloop, SuDoKu, Weather, TV Listings and Search Guide.

The Computer is a P3 866, 512MB, 40Gig(Progs) & 80 Gig(Shows) HDs, Hauppauge 150 & 150MCE, Hauppauge Remote, GeForce 5200 FX.

TIA

[JonnyCam]

so can you play your recordings all the way through in media player?

Could it be that youe CPU & Vid card isnt quite up to the task? ( I think sub recommends a P3 1 GHZ)

Cheers

[K.S.]

nay, it should be enough horsepower for playback (use myself a P3 450 with 512MB RAM as a client with no problems).
how often & when does it happen? playback of currently recorded show? try using another codec (i.e. get GPL MPEG2 codec & try it out), see if it helps, might also give new drivers from nvidia a try

[Mr. Cantrell]

I'm using nVidia PureVideo (I think that's what it's called). It happens during a lot of hour plus long shows that were recorded usually at least 24 hours prior to me trying to watch them. I'd say it happens most often in the later 1/2 hour of the show.
Any help would be greatly appriciated. I was hoping the logs might show something...

[K.S.]

i couldnt discover anything related to playback in the logs, maybe sub can
i would really give another codec / driver update a chance
try to give some relative numbers (i.e. happens every 2nd recording i watch). reason i asked about watching currently recorded shows or allready completed recordings: while something is being recorded, GBPVR does not use default codec for playback.
as you have a 150 built in, take a look at this thread, might be the same issue
http://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.php...+timestamp

[Mr. Cantrell]

i couldnt discover anything related to playback in the logs, maybe sub can
i would really give another codec / driver update a chance
try to give some relative numbers (i.e. happens every 2nd recording i watch). reason i asked about watching currently recorded shows or allready completed recordings: while something is being recorded, GBPVR does not use default codec for playback.
as you have a 150 built in, take a look at this thread, might be the same issue
http://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.php...+timestamp

Thank you very much K.S. If nothing else I now know that I've been having that timestamp issue. I will be installing the latest 150 drivers when I get home!

[sub]

I dont know - the logs look ok to me.

[fuzzweed]

are your hdds defragmented regularly? I know my P3 really chugs if the drives arn't kept squeeky clean.....

[craigspud101]

I was getting very skippy vids and got a quality defrager (perfect disk) which even claims back your freespace so that it's contiguous. I've had no problems since then! (I'm evaluating Perfrect disk, does anyone know a freeware/shareware one that's as good but not as expensive?)

[fuzzweed]

im curious as to what benefits does it give over the windows defragmenter?? Ive never really looked into anything else so it would be good to know if you find anything usefull....