Pure video causing an error?

[tmart540]

I installed trial version of Nvidia Purevideo decoder and started using it with SageTV. The picture quality was the best I have seen with Sage.

Now when I try to watch TV using Sage, I get an error and I can not watch TV.

Here is the error:

There was playback error in playback. Details:
sage.PlaybackException:ERROR(-4,0x80040217):
There was a problem rendering the video portion
of the content for playback.

I searched these forums, and people seem to say to just change video decoder in Sage settings. Now this works for me, but I really want Purevideo to work because no other decoder I have tried even compares to Purevideo.

Anyone know why it worked before and now I get this error?

Ive already uninstalled both Sage and Purevideo and reinstalled.

[aperry]

I had a very similar thing happening to me. I had to actually uninstall one or more of my other decoders to get it to work. It worked fine till I tried to upgrade to the latest version, then whammo! New version did not work, old version no longer worked.

Good luck... If the PureVideo didn't look as good, or I could get comparable picture quality from something else, I'd dump it since it is so picky about what else is on your system.

[jefff]

Perhaps the trial version of the PureVideo decoders expired? I think they will only work for 30 days. Reinstalling doesn't give you another 30 days. That happened to me, so I ended up buying the cheapest version of the decoders from Nvidia's website.

[tmart540]

Thats what I did. I purchased the decoder and it now works. I downloaded the trial like 2 or 3 days ago, so I am not sure what happened.