SageTV and Zoomplayer

[chadwolcott]

Has anyone experienced any problems running sagetv and zoomplayer. I use zoomplayer to watch divx or xvid encoded movies from my harddrive and use a combination of filters for rendering the video stream, generally, ffdshow or the like. I have found that every time I reboot my machine I get an error message from SageTV when I try to watch livetv. Something like there was an error with the MPEG-2 video setup.

I can workaround this by uninstalling the PVR-250 and reinstalling it via the device manager in XP. But I have to do this every time I reboot. Anyone have any suggestions?

[salsbst]

Are they fighting for the overlay?

[chadwolcott]

I have no idea...I'm not running them at the same time so I wouldn't think so. My first thought is that the video filters/decoders set for zoomplayer are somehow messing with the decoders that sage uses

[mlbdude]

Check to see if you are using Overlay or VMR in Sage. Also check to see if ffdshow is being loaded with Sage.

[chadwolcott]

I am using VMR but how do I check if FFDSHOW is being loaded?

[salsbst]

If it is installed and configured to support raw video, then it is may be getting loaded.

[mlbdude]

Set ffdshow to show in teh taskbar. Then you can see if it pops up.

[chadwolcott]

ok no ffdshow running when I start sagetv.

I incorrectly reported the original error, the message I get is:

There was a problem utilizing the capture card
Be sure it is installed correctly and no other applications are using it.
Failed running the graph for encoding
ErrCode=0x8007001f

[mlbdude]

It definately sounds like you are having something else is using the capture drivers. Make sure you don't have any other apps loading automatically.

[chadwolcott]

I definately don't...the only things running are powerstrip, girder, winlirc and the nvidia control panel