Still getting weird Slo-Mo issue with V5

[Jesse]

Hi,

After playing a ripped DVD in sage all sage recordings and live tv will only playback in slow motion (audio and video). If I completely close sage and then restart it then playback goes back to normal. I have had this problem with both of the V4 releases I tried and now with 5.0.4.92 as well. This is turning into a big waf killer. Anyone out there have a fix for this?

BTW, Nvidia decoders. Problem occurs with or without FSE. I also tried switching from VMR9 to Overlay with no improvement.

Bug report filed.

Help.

Jesse

[stevech]

for me, this slo-mo problem, which is a long standing bug report, has a work-around: do the RELOAD MEDIA PLAYER in the setup screens, while a recorded program (I don't play DVDs with Sage) is playing.

[ToxMox]

What are all your Audio Decoding settings set to?

[Jesse]

Hi,

Thanks for the responses.

Audio renderer is an maudio delta 410 soundcard using spdif output to my denon receiver. Audio decoder is nvidia.

Could someone not experiencing this issue give me their settings (ie decoders, VMR9/Overlay etc.) so I can give it a go.

BTW, I am using sageMCE 16x9 and dont seem to have the "Reload Media Player" option. Is it not there or am I just missing it?

Thanks,
Jesse

[ToxMox]

Try changing the audio renderer to "default directsound" instead of specifying the card.

[Jesse]

Hi Tox,

Wilco when I get home tonight. I will let you know how it turns out.

Thanks,

Jesse

[Jesse]

Hi,

I am sorry to report that switching the audio renderer to "default directsound" made no improvement.

It is interesting that I do not have this problem on my bedroom pc client. Almost identical hardware and software. Two differences are the use of onboard audio and the AC3 audio decoder. I tried the AC3 decoder on the main sage machine but saw no change in the problem. I cannot use onboard audio on the main machine because I already have two maudio soundcards installed (for use with sage and my whole house audio setup) and activating the onboard audio causes the whole system to become FUBAR.

I did get a response from sage on the bug report. They asked for a debug log file which I created and sent. Fingers crossed on a solution....

Any other suggestions?

Thanks,

Jesse

[ToxMox]

Have you tried physically removing the maudio card that you are using for Sage and enable the onboard sound then and use the onboard for Sage?

[Jesse]

Hi,

After looking at my log the sage guys advised me to try disabling FSE. I have tried disabling FSE in the past to no avail. When I tried it this time I got a video playback error. At that point I for some reason decided to switch back to the defualt stv from sageMCE16x9 to see if I could get playback to work without going down to the basement to restart sage. I noticed that all I could select was V3.stv instead of V3.xml. I went ahead and closed sage and manually edited the props. file to V3.xml and restarted. I set sage to overlay (no VMR9 and no FSE). Problem solved. I switched from overlay to VMR9 and still no more problem. I activated FSE and still no problem.

At that point I came here and downloaded the latest build of sageMCE16x9. Sure enough it was an xml as opposed to and stv. I loaded it up and no more problem.

So it looks like this was all because I was out of date on the stv I was using.....

It is strange that that the old .stv version works just fine on my client but not on my server.

Thanks to everyone.

Jesse

[xlr8shun]

i made a post a while back about this (audio only) and upgraded my pvr250 drivers in hopes that it would remedy the situation. well since the problem isnt reproducable, and i have to wait for it to randomly happen i didnt know if it was fixed or not until now. 3 recordings now, that have been recorded in the last week have slow-mo audio (video is fine, but gets jerky after a while).

i tried different drivers because the problem seems to be when the file is encoded. different players give different results and different files give different results in different players. all of the files in question play in sage, just with messed up audio. some of them play in winamp, some dont, some play with messed up audio, some play in wmp, some done, and some with messed up audio. again the same with mpc.

if its a driver problem then it exists still in the latest drivers available from hauppage's web site. but i didnt start seeing this problem in my 2 years of using sage, until somewhat recently.. maybe 6-7 months ago. thats not to say that the problem wasnt there and maybe i just wasnt affected, but i didnt see this problem then. its kind of crappy, thinking you got a recording of the show you want, only to come back in a day or two and ready to watch it.. but you cant

in anycase, ive tried the "reload video player" thing, with no fix, and sometimes changing audio codecs will change the behavior of the file played. meaning that if i change codecs sometimes the audio will still play slow-mo, but at a faster speed, or even slower speed. i guess it just depends on how the decoder reacts to the 'corrupt' file.

*shrugs*