Little video lag with VRM9 and v.6

[Zorglub]

Hi,

I am presently using v6 with the following video setting:

card: Nvidia 6800GT
parameters:

decoder: Nvidia Video decoder
rendered: VRM9
all other are to default

I ran with those setting for a long while in v.5 without any incident or lag whatsoever. Since I installed v.6 (no other change to the system or parameters...), when I listen to a video or to live tv, once in a while I get a little lag (freeze of the image for about a second) and then it resync with the sound.

The more I let it play, the more frequent the lag happens.



I try to change the decoder, but no effect. I change toe renderer to default or overlay, and I don't have the lag, but it bring me other problems, including image quality issues.



Is there anybody who encontered this also ? Or anybody know how I can fix this, or if this appear to be a bug. I can provide whatever details that can help in solving this issue..

Thanks !

Z.

[Robsters]

I have a similar problem, same video card. The video seems to stutter. Noticed it right away after installed v6 from v5. I'm playing 100% HD.

I got rid of my stutter by switching from VMR9 to overlay. I'm a little disappointed now that I've lost my transparent menus.

[Zorglub]

Hi,

I did a fresh install of 6.0.12 and copy my wiz.bin and now I don't have this problem anymore.

You may want to try this.

[Robsters]

Thanks,

I'll give it a try.

Does that file contain the shows database?

[Robsters]

I made a backup copy of my SageTV directory. Uninstalled (also deleted the Program Files/SageTV directory after uninstall), Rebooted, Reinstalled 6.0.13 (beta). Copied my wiz.bin, wiz.bak and sage.properties files back, reconfigured my tuners and playback settings.

Still getting a glittery playback using VMR9. I'm not using a standard resolution due to my tv and overscan. I had this problem about a year ago when I first installed sage v4 (I switched to Overlay). I tried VMR9 again when I upgraded to version 5 and left enabled since.

Guess I need to make sure I have updated drivers for my video card. 1 year ago my video card drivers that came on CD did support HDTV output but the latest drivers from Nvidia's website did not. Took me a week just to get the output working correctly on my HDTV.

I'm going to assume my glittery playback is not Sage but my video card using VMR9.

[gplasky]

The other thing to try was to just restore your wiz.bin. Spend the time configuring Sage instead of using a previous .properties file. For whatever reason starting with a fresh one fixes issues.

Gerry

[Robsters]

I'll give it a try tonight.

Thanks,

[montgomeryt]

I have the same problem. I have an ATI 9550 with the Nvidia Pure codec and never had a problem in V5. I upgraded to V6 no problem but the first time I started Sage it hung on the Database Upgrade. After 3 hours of it doing nothing I killed it - rebooted and tried to start again. This time left it running all night and it still just hung. I then uninstalled v6 deleted the directory and reinstalled fresh with the beta. Everything installed fine started ok configured fine but when I went to use it - it studdered every couple seconds. Tried changing the audio settings and the video codec to defaults with the same results.

So back to V5 I went with a fresh install and then copied my backup settings to it and everything worked fine. For a while - now even in version 5 I get the studdering.

I'm not sure what I can do other than email support.