Hauppauge Colossus HD-PVR

[Skirge01]

Just throwing out an idea here, since I don't have my Colossus installed yet. Have you tried padding the beginning of recordings by a few minutes, so that there's plenty of time to get the channel tuned via the end of the previous show on that channel? I'd be tempted to try up to 10 minutes of padding, so that the previews/commercials (which may be in stereo) don't come into play.

[BobPhoenix]

Originally Posted by Skirge01

Just throwing out an idea here, since I don't have my Colossus installed yet. Have you tried padding the beginning of recordings by a few minutes, so that there's plenty of time to get the channel tuned via the end of the previous show on that channel? I'd be tempted to try up to 10 minutes of padding, so that the previews/commercials (which may be in stereo) don't come into play.

I always have 2 minutes before and 3 minutes after. Get my problem recordings on a premium channel Showtime most recently.

[panteragstk]

The padding isn't the issue. It is that the colossus is getting a pcm (which it encodes to AAC) when it first tunes the channel and it thinks that the whole recording is pcm when it isn't. When I open up the recordings in tsmuxer they all have just an avc track and a dolby digital track. The audio is way behind the video though, and without remuxing it won't play in sage. I'm not sure if it is a sagetv issue or a hauppauge issue. It doesn't happen very often so it isn't that big of a problem, but last weekend it happened on every recording for two days. After restarting the server it stopped and hasn't happened since. Very strange.

[sacrament055]

So out of curiosity, if you use the HDMI video with RCA audio cables do you get perfect recordings with no sync issues?

[KeithAbbott]

Originally Posted by sacrament055

So out of curiosity, if you use the HDMI video with RCA audio cables do you get perfect recordings with no sync issues?

I didn't think there was a HDMI+Analog option.

[panteragstk]

Originally Posted by sacrament055

So out of curiosity, if you use the HDMI video with RCA audio cables do you get perfect recordings with no sync issues?

Nope, just HDMI with dolby digital and native resolution on.

[PosterBoy]

Could someone email me a copy of the 29111 drivers

All I have is 29192 and I am hitting the audio sync issue. There is a new beta out but it doesnt look like it addresses what I am seeing

PM me and I will give you an email address to send it to

Thanks

Kent

[SHS]

Yup saw them new one but have not had time to try them out any way you fine what looking for here
http://www.shspvr.com/ftp/download/colossus/

[PosterBoy]

Thanks!!

Kent

[TechBill]

Anyone tried the new beta driver yet?

Bill

[SHS]

Originally Posted by TechBill

Anyone tried the new beta driver yet?

Bill

Testing them rigth now under SageTV bill I let you all by 6/7PM CST unless it fail before then and just so you all know I Setup 12 hour of back to back 30 min recording all on diff channel.

[metzz71]

no dice with regards to audio sync. Still an issue.

[panteragstk]

I'm trying to figure out if there are any similarities with everyone's configuration and the issues people have. I started a poll in this section asking what OS everyone is using as well as the driver version associated with it. Thanks.

http://forums.sagetv.com/forums/showthread.php?t=57094

[TechBill]

Originally Posted by SHS

Testing them rigth now under SageTV bill I let you all by 6/7PM CST unless it fail before then and just so you all know I Setup 12 hour of back to back 30 min recording all on diff channel.

Cool

Looking forward to see the result

Bill

[SHS]

Well I started experiencing choppy, stuttering recordings againe only diff now is it gose 5 hours instead of 4 hours how odd.
I also saw on the server was eat cpu usage show about 30% but with sagetv.exe was only showing 10% in task manager but min I killed Sagetv the usage drop back down 0/1% like should be so something going on I just can't pin point what going on .

[equalize]

Originally Posted by SHS

Yup saw them new one but have not had time to try them out any way you fine what looking for here
http://www.shspvr.com/ftp/download/colossus/

Driver 29259 dated Sept 16 is here ftp://ftp.hauppauge.com/Support/Colossus/

Has anyone looked at it?

[SHS]

I skip the 29259 driver being I couldn't get them shecd off time of no recording and moved on to 29263 like today with no record so I can just record what for test and reviewing.
I have no idea if there any good more likey there no good being it only few days apart from 29263 drivers.

[sleonard]

Originally Posted by SHS

Well I started experiencing choppy, stuttering recordings againe only diff now is it gose 5 hours instead of 4 hours how odd.
I also saw on the server was eat cpu usage show about 30% but with sagetv.exe was only showing 10% in task manager but min I killed Sagetv the usage drop back down 0/1% like should be so something going on I just can't pin point what going on .

Use Process Explorer to see what is using the CPU. Driver level processes don't show their CPU usage in Task Manager.

S

[SHS]

Interrupts it high push pass 10%
Process PID CPU Private Bytes Working Set Description Company Name
System Idle Process 0 66.40 0 K 24 K
System 4 5.06 128 K 816 K
Interrupts n/a 11.47 0 K 0 K Hardware Interrupts and DPCs
smss.exe 268 444 K 1,104 K Windows Session Manager Microsoft Corporation
csrss.exe 432 0.01 2,072 K 4,356 K Client Server Runtime Process Microsoft Corporation
wininit.exe 548 1,432 K 4,300 K Windows Start-Up Application Microsoft Corporation
services.exe 596 5,524 K 9,396 K Services and Controller app Microsoft Corporation
svchost.exe 736 4,088 K 9,352 K Host Process for Windows Services Microsoft Corporation
svchost.exe 860 3,612 K 7,304 K Host Process for Windows Services Microsoft Corporation
MsMpEng.exe 912 0.08 101,904 K 70,888 K Antimalware Service Executable Microsoft Corporation
atiesrxx.exe 1012 1,440 K 4,196 K AMD External Events Service Module AMD
atieclxx.exe 1220 2,104 K 6,108 K AMD External Events Client Module AMD
svchost.exe 300 0.01 13,912 K 20,604 K Host Process for Windows Services Microsoft Corporation
svchost.exe 684 < 0.01 5,076 K 12,040 K Host Process for Windows Services Microsoft Corporation
dwm.exe 1468 1.57 32,392 K 29,572 K Desktop Window Manager Microsoft Corporation
svchost.exe 544 < 0.01 22,060 K 36,760 K Host Process for Windows Services Microsoft Corporation
svchost.exe 1140 0.01 9,704 K 16,560 K Host Process for Windows Services Microsoft Corporation
svchost.exe 1244 < 0.01 13,988 K 14,540 K Host Process for Windows Services Microsoft Corporation
spoolsv.exe 1488 6,032 K 10,860 K Spooler SubSystem App Microsoft Corporation
svchost.exe 1564 10,172 K 11,716 K Host Process for Windows Services Microsoft Corporation
taskhost.exe 1572 3,188 K 7,424 K Host Process for Windows Tasks Microsoft Corporation
Fuel.Service.exe 1764 1,800 K 5,484 K AMD Fuel Service Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
svchost.exe 1816 < 0.01 8,024 K 21,536 K Host Process for Windows Services Microsoft Corporation
ppped.exe 1876 0.08 2,740 K 6,136 K PowerPanel Personal Edition Service Cyber Power Systems, Inc.
svchost.exe 2040 0.65 115,044 K 115,248 K Host Process for Windows Services Microsoft Corporation
NisSrv.exe 2200 < 0.01 6,268 K 3,352 K Microsoft Network Inspection System Microsoft Corporation
svchost.exe 2356 1,804 K 5,232 K Host Process for Windows Services Microsoft Corporation
SearchIndexer.exe 2160 0.01 19,044 K 13,648 K Microsoft Windows Search Indexer Microsoft Corporation
wmpnetwk.exe 1644 < 0.01 7,860 K 9,140 K Windows Media Player Network Sharing Service Microsoft Corporation
PresentationFontCache.exe 3324 26,044 K 17,060 K PresentationFontCache.exe Microsoft Corporation
SageTVService.exe 812 0.55 13,008 K 2,564 K SageTV SageTV, LLC
SageTVService.exe 2208 9.38 262,904 K 207,476 K SageTV SageTV, LLC
lsass.exe 612 0.02 4,024 K 10,364 K Local Security Authority Process Microsoft Corporation
lsm.exe 620 2,392 K 4,160 K Local Session Manager Service Microsoft Corporation
csrss.exe 564 0.71 2,420 K 11,188 K Client Server Runtime Process Microsoft Corporation
winlogon.exe 804 2,708 K 6,816 K Windows Logon Application Microsoft Corporation
explorer.exe 1512 0.12 33,976 K 56,080 K Windows Explorer Microsoft Corporation
msseces.exe 2480 6,212 K 14,068 K Microsoft Security Client User Interface Microsoft Corporation
RAVCpl64.exe 2492 8,872 K 10,600 K Realtek HD Audio Manager Realtek Semiconductor
sidebar.exe 2500 0.01 12,792 K 26,728 K Windows Desktop Gadgets Microsoft Corporation
procexp.exe 1740 1,644 K 6,380 K Sysinternals Process Explorer Sysinternals - www.sysinternals.com
procexp64.exe 428 3.74 24,940 K 43,224 K Sysinternals Process Explorer Sysinternals - www.sysinternals.com
pppeuser.exe 2824 0.04 2,580 K 6,108 K PowerPanel Personal Edition User Interaction Cyber Power Systems, Inc.
jusched.exe 2836 1,144 K 4,400 K Java(TM) Update Scheduler Sun Microsystems, Inc.
MOM.exe 2864 0.02 39,768 K 7,500 K Catalyst Control Center: Monitoring program Advanced Micro Devices Inc.
CCC.exe 2948 0.03 111,844 K 28,240 K Catalyst Control Center: Host application ATI Technologies Inc.

[TechBill]

Originally Posted by SHS

Well I started experiencing choppy, stuttering recordings againe only diff now is it gose 5 hours instead of 4 hours how odd.
I also saw on the server was eat cpu usage show about 30% but with sagetv.exe was only showing 10% in task manager but min I killed Sagetv the usage drop back down 0/1% like should be so something going on I just can't pin point what going on .

Awww .... I was hoping it would be the ONE to end the nightly reboot ..........


Sigh .. at least they still releasing update drivers which is postive signs


Bill