Do you have Windows Media Centre installed ? I've seen cases with Vista where a WMC background process will take ownership of a Tuner card and will refuse access to the card by other processes.
It is very strange that it takes another run of vlc to get things back on track. Before running vlc directly, have you tried the Hauppauge supplied/recommended player to see if it works or produces a more meaningful message ? Just in case there is still some vlc remnant, for checking processes I use Process Explorer from http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653 as it gives more info. When Process Explorer is running make sure you have clicked at the top of the process column and then processes will be as a hierarchy. When the VLCPlay starts playing you will see squeezeboxserver.exe (probably short name version) starting socketwrapper.exe and it will have 2 child processes vlc.exe and flac.exe (or lame.exe). If vlc stops properly then all if these will disappear. It is possible for orphan/zombie process to appear when vlc is terminated and this may end without a parent at top level. The problem could be either in VLC's handling of DVB or the output streaming to Flac/lame etc. Try running vlc using the same command line option as the conf file but change the dest file to /dev/null from "-". If it fails then the problem is wholly vlc and not related to streaming to another process. vlc has a logging interface (IIRC something like -v -I logger -logfile testlog.txt) which I think can be used if the destination file is not "-". -- bpa ------------------------------------------------------------------------ bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1806 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=21804 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
