Why does Live TV Freeze after end of each show?

[sportera]

While watching Live TV the video and audio "freezes" at the end of each show. I have to press "stop", then "stop" again, then select what I want to watch from guide to get TV to run again. This is aggrivating and cause me to miss the begining of some shows.

I've spent the past few months trying to change settings to stop this but no luck. I've uninstalled and re-installed SageTV and SageMC a number of times, even so far as deleting all files and starting over.

This may have started when I installed DirMon2 and ShowAnalyser some time back to set up ComSkip per previous posts on this site.

Can someone help me figure out how to fix this?

[heffe2001]

Need more info about your system, tuners, etc.

[sportera]

Originally Posted by heffe2001

Need more info about your system, tuners, etc.

Thanks for quick response.

PC:
- Asus P5B-E LGA775 Core 2 Duo w/E6300 Conroe CPU
- 2x1GB Corsair PC2 6400 DDR2 800 Dual Channel memory
- Leadtek 7900GS Video 256K
- b-Enspirer 7.1 PCI Sound
- 2-400GB SATA Hard drives
- Samsung 18x DVD +/- DVR burner
- USR internal modem for CallerID

Tuners:
- Analog Tuner #1 & #2 - Nvidia DualTV card
- Digital Tuners #1OAT & #2QAM - HDHomerun

Operating System:
- Windows XP Pro SP2
- SageTV V6_1_8
- SageMC 6_3_2c

[unkyjoe]

I have been having a similar problem but with video and audio.

I have submitted a bug report so we will see what they say

[Pretzelboy]

I've had it happen before but it is unpredictable. I can't define that it's related to any particular action or process.

[kricker]

I just realized I am now suffering from the same problem. I do not watch live TV much through Sage, so I do not know at what version it started. I do know it happens whether I use the Gabest OpenSource Decoder or the Nvidia Decoder. I haven't tried with the Sage decoder yet. It also happen within SageMC when using the miniguide to change channels. Usually I can get about 3-4 channel changes then it freezes. I do not have comskip or DirMon setup at all.

[crowland]

This fixed this for me:

Close SageTV and the service if running and open up your Sage.properties
file. Look for this line, "seeker/fast_mux_switch=true" and change it from
true to false.

[kricker]

Tried it. It did nothing for me. I am still having freezes each time live tv switches to a new program. Time to run a debug log.
EDIT
Spoke too soon. I forgot to do it for the server. Once I set that property in the server properties files things are better. There is a slight stop/start but it no longer freezes. Can anyone shed some light on why I have to change this property now?

[sportera]

Originally Posted by crowland

This fixed this for me:

Close SageTV and the service if running and open up your Sage.properties
file. Look for this line, "seeker/fast_mux_switch=true" and change it from
true to false.

Thanks crowland,

I think this change fixed my problem. And from the other posts I've read, it seems this fix is the solution to a know problem with SageTV and Nvidia DualTV tuner cards.

Thanks again!

[kricker]

Originally Posted by sportera

Thanks crowland,

I think this change fixed my problem. And from the other posts I've read, it seems this fix is the solution to a know problem with SageTV and Nvidia DualTV tuner cards.

Thanks again!

Nvidia DualTV is what I have

[srothwell]

Originally Posted by sportera

Thanks for quick response.

PC:
- Asus P5B-E LGA775 Core 2 Duo w/E6300 Conroe CPU
- 2x1GB Corsair PC2 6400 DDR2 800 Dual Channel memory
- Leadtek 7900GS Video 256K
- b-Enspirer 7.1 PCI Sound
- 2-400GB SATA Hard drives
- Samsung 18x DVD +/- DVR burner
- USR internal modem for CallerID

Tuners:
- Analog Tuner #1 & #2 - Nvidia DualTV card
- Digital Tuners #1OAT & #2QAM - HDHomerun

Operating System:
- Windows XP Pro SP2
- SageTV V6_1_8
- SageMC 6_3_2c

Hi.... I just saw your post. I have the same motherboard and I've been having lots of problems and the folks as Sage are almost convinced that it has something to do with my hardware. Do you still have problems?

Stacy

[sportera]

Originally Posted by srothwell

Hi.... I just saw your post. I have the same motherboard and I've been having lots of problems and the folks as Sage are almost convinced that it has something to do with my hardware. Do you still have problems?

Stacy

Not anymore. Replaced the whole system with new equipment.

Sam

[srothwell]

Originally Posted by sportera

Not anymore. Replaced the whole system with new equipment.

Sam

Well..... not an option! My wife calls Sage my drug habit as it is :-)

But seriously, you were having so many problems that you replaced a nearly brand-new motherboard and processor?????

Just out of curiosity, what new stuff did you get?

stacy

[sportera]

Originally Posted by srothwell

Well..... not an option! My wife calls Sage my drug habit as it is :-)

But seriously, you were having so many problems that you replaced a nearly brand-new motherboard and processor?????

Just out of curiosity, what new stuff did you get?

stacy

Case - Silverstone Lascala SST-LC10
MB- ASUS P5B-E LGA 775
CPU -Core 2 Duo E6300
Mem - Cosrsair XMS2 (2x1Gb) DDR800
Storage - 2 x 400GB SATA + 1x 250GB SATA Hard Drives
Vid - Leadtek WinFast PX7900GS 256MB
Aud - Bluegears b-Enspirer 7.1 PCI
DVD - Samsung 18x DVD+/-R burner with LightScribe
PVR - Nvidia DualTV MCE
HD - HDHomerun for OATV + QAM

Don't remember the total $ because I shopped & purchased from multiple vendors with newegg providing most, then PCalchemy,etc.

[srothwell]

Originally Posted by sportera

Case - Silverstone Lascala SST-LC10
MB- ASUS P5B-E LGA 775
CPU -Core 2 Duo E6300
Mem - Cosrsair XMS2 (2x1Gb) DDR800
Storage - 2 x 400GB SATA + 1x 250GB SATA Hard Drives
Vid - Leadtek WinFast PX7900GS 256MB
Aud - Bluegears b-Enspirer 7.1 PCI
DVD - Samsung 18x DVD+/-R burner with LightScribe
PVR - Nvidia DualTV MCE
HD - HDHomerun for OATV + QAM

Don't remember the total $ because I shopped & purchased from multiple vendors with newegg providing most, then PCalchemy,etc.

This is almost exactly the configuration I have (except of course like the case, hard drives, etc.. Same Exact MB and the prcoessor is a E6700.
And you're having no problems any more?

Hmmm

Stacy