Windows Media Center Problems

Squirrely · May 17, 2008

This is one of the most annoying problems, lol. I can not diagnose it.

My problem is that Windows Media Center starts freaking out depending on how long my computer is on. It starts to get jittery, the sound skips, and frame skips. It's like my TV Tuner (Hauppauge WinTV-PVR-150) can not decode the instreaming TV fast enough. The frame skips even cause the computer to lock up for a moment. If I am typing, and it locks my comp up for a bit, I may have alot of same letters such as "letttttttttttters". :laugh:

But, when I restart, which clears what is in RAM, the jitteryness goes away. I thought it was a heat problem, but that isn't it since it works just after a restart. :wtf:

It could be a memory leak, but I have 4gb of RAM, so no shortage there. But it has to be memory, since after a mem dump when you restart, it works fine for a certain amount of time. After a while, it starts to get jittery again. After I figured out it wasn't a heat problem, I tried memtest, and it passes with flying colors.

Not sure if it is my TV Tuner or just Vista x64 not being happy with it.

So any suggestions?

Thanks. :toast:

Namslas90 · May 17, 2008

Clean cache, Remove drivers, Defrag HDD, Re-install drivers. Try again.

Squirrely · May 17, 2008

Did all of those.

That's why I have posted here, since its puzzling to me.

JrRacinFan · May 17, 2008

Hmmmm .....

Do you have Superfetch enabled/disabled? Try doing the opposite of what you have it set for currently. OR .....

EDIT: Move your pagefile to a different hard drive. Try those out and post back results!

Squirrely · May 17, 2008

I disabled the SuperFetch service, Ill see how that works.

With the pagefile, I only have one harddrive. Anyway my pagefile isn't used too much, especially since Vista has 4gb to use, lol. :laugh:

JrRacinFan · May 17, 2008

Could always be a dying stick of ram ( I hope not). But I just hope its easily fixable ......

Solaris17 · May 17, 2008

maybe a virus? who knows what they encode in tv these days...i just got the subliminal message to drink sprote and smoke. yesterday it was to join the military.

Squirrely · May 17, 2008

JrRacinFan said:
Could always be a dying stick of ram ( I hope not). But I just hope its easily fixable ......

Tried memtest and it passed fine, so it can't be the ram...hmm

Also, dont suspect its a virus. If it was a virus I would have many more problems than just Windows Media Center being jittery. Unless someone coded some really silly one :laugh:

I want to say its a mem leak somewhere, since it gets progressively worse depending on how long my computer stays on.

Easy Rhino · May 17, 2008

Solaris17 said:
maybe a virus? who knows what they encode in tv these days...i just got the subliminal message to drink sprote and smoke. yesterday it was to join the military.

huh?

Solaris17 · May 17, 2008

it was kinda a jo9ke...obviously tv doesnt bring viruses but iv had virus's that didnt do anything just slow the system...hmm what proc is it squirly? thr cpu handles alot of the decoding..nvm that wouldnt explain the decrees over time...ya im bankin on mem leak are the drivers upto date? is the program your using upto date.

farlex85 · May 17, 2008

It could be a failing tuner. Have you tried using the software that came w/ it for testing purposes?

Squirrely · May 17, 2008

Well, I guess Windows Media Center is up to date, really have no clue.

Hauppauge has no drivers for Vista x64. Vista does have a bank of drivers, so it uses its own for it.

Its been fine so far, I'll leave my comp on overnight, see how messed up Windows Media Center gets, lol.

Edit: WinTV their software is horrible. It doesn't work quite well.

Squirrely · May 18, 2008

Disabling the SuperFetch service didn't fix it.

It is still jittery. Any more suggestions?

farlex85 · May 18, 2008

Try some other software, like the one the pvr-150 came w/.

Squirrely · May 18, 2008

Last time I tried WinTV it "failed to find device" lol.

thoughtdisorder · May 18, 2008

Solaris17 said:
maybe a virus? who knows what they encode in tv these days...i just got the subliminal message to drink sprote and smoke. yesterday it was to join the military.

@Solaris-Dude, between your dreams and your posts I'm really growing concerned about you! :laugh:

On topic, I know you checked your mem, but it sounds like a leakage is occurring perhaps?

Squirrely · May 19, 2008

thoughtdisorder said:
On topic, I know you checked your mem, but it sounds like a leakage is occurring perhaps?

I have waited a bit, and it is still doing it. Now it does it whenever I just turn my PC on. :wtf:

It has to be a memory leak somewhere, but I just don't know where. This is quite frustrating. Any more suggestions?

Edit: Anyone know of any Windows based Open Source media center programs?

ghost101 · May 19, 2008

Try using the 64bit ffdshow software. A lot of codecs have problems with vista x64 media center. Something which took me a pain to solve yesterday.

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=173941

I used the experimental x64 build rev 1943 by clsid. You can then choose with ffdshow config to pick which codecs for ffdshow to decode in which pieces of software. For example, i didnt want coreavc to be replaced for H.264/AVC video within windows media player and so unchecked that.

Squirrely · May 19, 2008

Ok, thanks. I'll try that and get back to you.

Edit: Seems ok so far, we will see, lol.

Squirrely · May 19, 2008

Update:

fddshow didnt fix it.

What did fix it was I just reinstalled my graphics drivers. It seemed to be a problem with my graphics card actually rendering the incoming TV. Strange.

Oh well, thanks everyone.

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