Vista Ready?

[brettuk]

Originally Posted by Yooper

I am running the 6.2.10 version of Placeshifter on my laptop - running Vista.

I use it remotely to view my cable video in the hotel and airports when I travel.

I have 3D acceleration turned off - it will not work if turned on.

A couple of issues:

1. Vista changes to none Aero mode when I select and view a channel. This works OK. However, if I minimize the viewing window and then restore it the video does not come back - just the audio.
2. When I change channels, the laptop screen flickers twice - as if it is changing back to Aero and then turns it off again.
3. When there is a pause in the network streaming there is a reasonable chance that I will lose the streaming connection. If the pause is long enough, the screen will flicker - Aero turning back on? - and then the connection is lost.

I have not tried turning off Aero - that is my next step.

The switching of Aero on and off seems to cause a problem.

The GFX driver crashes on minimise when a video is playing but the video comes back if you right click the placeshifter icon and set it to disable aero (disable desktop composition). Stops it changing to and from, will switch it off until placeshifter exits.