Hi everybody- first I have to thank everyone for all the high-quality advice I've lurked from here in the past year, it was an enormous help in making decisions for building my own HTPC.
I run an Athlon 64X2, A8N SLI mobo, 7800GT and HVR2200 rendering everything through powerdvd8 that have been working flawlessly for the past six-odd months, running MediaPortal RC2- until a couple of days ago- and Vista 32 Ultimate. Just after christmas I started getting occasional episodes of jumping back and forth between the first frame rendered, the current frame and a green screen on TV3, though sound works as normal, and these episodes have been getting steadily more common.
This seems to be a problem I'm having with how MediaPortal is playing TV3 video as I am able to record and run the transport stream files in MCP without the same error. I've tried all of the h264 codecs installed- ffdshow, powerdvd8 and the windows driver in MediaPortal, and all have given the same result.
Frustrated, I did a fresh install of windows, mediaportal rc4, powerdvd8 and the CCCP pack in an attempt to get TV3 working again, but to no avail! All the other channels work well, video playback is excellent, and overall everything except this is top-notch, it feels like there's one little thing I must be missing and I'm tearing my hair out!
Any suggestions of other things I could try that I may have missed would be much appreciated.