Livetv crashes on changing channel

[gizzymo]

Hi all!

Thanks for taking the time to read this first off!

First my spec:

P4 3.0 HT
2GB DDR 400
300 GIG SATA
200 GIG IDE
Intel MB
Ati 9800xt (made by connect 3d)
Sound blaster Live 5.1 PCI (the origional sb live 5.1 card)
DVDRW -samsung
Haupauge PVR-350 Card in second PCI slot (as stated in manual)

I have the latest drivers for video, motherboard and all other devices - except sound card - see below.
I have xp sp2 and all the latest windows updates including dx9 and the latest drivers and applications for the pvr-350 from hauppauge website.

sysetm is very stable apart from within winTV2000 or gb-pvr.

The Problem:

Gb-pvr works great in all functions except when browsing live TV. It seems that about 20% of the time when changing channels it will unexpectadly make the screen from the video out on the pvr-350 go black and then both the video out on the pvr and the pc window will jump to the gb-pvr main menu screen. i.e it will just completly exit the livetv mode. If you then try to go back in, the video out on the pvr-350 will just go black again with no tv reception at all. The only way to get it to work is to restart the machine.

Wintv also crashes when changing channels - except slightly more often - hence i doubt the problem is the fault of gb-pvr!

I have ONE theory as i have heard of sound cards affecting gb-pvr and wintv before. The official drivers for my soundblaster live 5.1 are quite old - the latest available from creative but they are still old - over a year anyway. Am i best trying the micrososft drivers or maybe just whipout hte card and use the AC97 on the motherboard??


Any help is very very much appreciated!!

Thanks,

Peter

[stefan]

The official drivers are notoriously unstable. Try the latest from shspvr.com. People have reported to have much better results with these. Also be sure to follow the instructions on how to properly uninstall/install drivers. They can be found in the drivers section on the webpage :-)

Good luck!

[gizzymo]

Thanks so much stefan for the quick reply.
have just downloaded them and will try them as soon as i get home this evening.
i'll let you know how it goes,

thanks

pete

[womble]

I have the same problem and have tried the recomended drivers above but it still crashes after i have changed channels. its odd as when i first switch to live TV, GBPVR uses usbuirt to change sky to the last used channel in BGPVR and the Live TV shows fine but as soon as i go to change to another channel it just returns to the main menu?

[capone]

I sometimes have the same problem when changing channels in timeshift mode. I think it has something to do w/ how it creates the new file. Sometimes it's fine, sometimes it just studders a periodically, and sometimes it's too much for it and it crahses back to guide.

Since I don't have a number remote at the moment, this is only an issue CNN/HN because I up/down since they are right next to each other. Other than that, I don't flip, well, since I have a guide telling my what is on.

I used to think it had to do w/ the stop/esc issue leaving TV which this version fixed, but it's something else.

[womble]

I have changed my EPG so I can now select the channels via the EPG screen but it still returns to the menu when I change the channel via the up and down buttons. :confused: