Latest Ceton InfiniTV 4 Info Thread - Page 118

No one should be using registry "cleaning" utilities. The registry is just a lookup table (like a database). Adding random things to it does not affect seeking it or finding what it normally needs to find. They certainly do not speed up your machine. The only thing it could even possibly help is deleting corrupt keys that are preventing you from reinstalling a certain software, but again that's something very specific to that app. Windows is not affected by the size of the registry.

A post I saw Shark007 make a while ago in this same situation:

"The next time you feel the need to clean something, go do some laundry".

Open a support ticket with us, and attach a diagnostic capture taken immediately after the upgrade fails.

That is third reported cases of this issue now in a short period of time. I wonder why this just started happening now? Ceton thought maybe something was corrupted in the flash preventing the future updates and channel maps from writing the flash. I wonder what the analysis of our returned cards showed?

Can we get a firm answer on what is considered "current " ?

I see a lot of numbers flying around here and quite frankly , some I have never heard of ! When I open the Ceton diag. menu this is what I see .

Driver package version 1.5.4304.6
Diag. tool version 1.5.0.0
Infinity PCIE Driver version 1.0.24
Tuning Adapter Version 1.2.0.0
Infinity firmware version 1.1.82
Infinity Hardware Version 5000

Is this the versions that your speaking about when you say " not aware of any stability issues with current Infinity TV firmware" ?

Should driver / firmware new versions show up in the Ceton diag. menu automatically and be as such offered for installation ?

Just to be clear . I am NOT asking or referencing any questions about anything "beta" . Personally , it would take a Ceton tech to tell me that anything beta is what I need to solve any issue .

I think that most folks here and other forums of this nature are above average in usage of the Ceton product . So , knee jerking a support ticket is like admitting a complete failure in regards to getting the product to work reliably for more than a few day's . So, what WE do is continuously try everything known to man before we admit we can't do it . Try to see it from this side of the fence .

Admit it . How many times has your wife ( GF or what ever) BEGGED you to pull over on a trip to ask for directions from a gas attendant and you would still drive FOREVER just to prove a point ?
Edited by flocko - 9/4/12 at 8:27pm

Not sure if this was also related to why my card would not stayed paired. I would loose CP Authorization on a power recycle.

I will say that my setup is running better than ever after the replaced card and updated the firmware. Althoug, I still randomly see the horizontal macroblocking on copy protected channels.

I'm using the beta firmware from around July 17th. Until a couple of days ago, I haven't had any issues with it so I would feel that it's pretty stable.

The most recently issue I had was WMC not being able to find any tuners.

Ceton Support responded with:

So I'll have to try this if the problem happens again.

I put my HTPC to sleep whenever it's not in use. I used to have frequent issues not finding tuners or taking a long time to get a tuner when it came out of sleep but with the beta firmware, it seems less of an issue.

I suppose I should have posted here before creating another thread.

To put it shortly, does anyone else experience intermittent pixelation on SDV and/or Copy Once shows? I never get pixelation on Copy Free shows but it occurs regularly on shows that require CP encryption.

I'm in Lenexa, KS and pixelation doesn't occur on the rented box (just got one today for comparison purposes only). Signal strength and SNR are fine.

Just looking for others who share my blight. This isn't the "line macroblocking problem." Knock on wood I don't believe I've ever seen that one in the wild.

I'm in DFW on Time Warner with PCIe Infinitv4 - I get the same on SDV channels. Seems to be worse on some days than others but not tied to specific channels. Some days no pixelization at all. Some days it happens about every minute or so. I don't have cable boxes to compare so I just thought it was TWCs crappy signal. I've not bothered to try and fix since nobody else seems to be worried about it.

Do you ever get pixelation on your local Copy Free channels?

Edit: Just watched a couple hours of DNC convention on CSPAN with no pixelation. Turned to MSNBC and saw pixelation within a minute.

Too bad it seems I'm yelling into an empty cavern.
Edited by schlidel - 9/6/12 at 8:55pm

Yeah.. I'm getting tons of blocking with the new 1.1.82 firmware.

And I mean like every 2 to 5 seconds there is a line missing.

It's on just about every channel.

Hmm.. that sounds different from what I'm experiencing.

The pixelation I see can be anywhere on the screen where there's movement and it's rarely just a line. Also, I only see it on Copy Once shows but with Time Warner that's a lot of shows. The frequency varies from almost never to every 30 seconds- seemingly correlating with neighborhood usage.

Have you opened a ticket with Ceton?

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We are not aware of any issues in the 1.1.8.2 firmware which could cause that, especially over 1.1.7.2 (in fact, the firmwares are very similar). Odds are the issue is unrelated to the firmware, so I would recommend you check your signal quality. If the issue persists, your best bet would be to open a ticket with us. You could also try downgrading and see if the issue disappears.

Just curious if you guys are giving any credence to my copy once intermittent pixelation issue? Thank you.

Nice work on companion app, btw.

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I downgraded to the 1.1.7.2 and it was still there. I think the problem might be that I updated the hardware from 4881 to 6289. And I tried to go back to the 4881 but for some reason the program wouldn't allow me to downgrade the hardware.

I have opened a ticket with Ceton on it.

Still waiting for a response.

Here are some screen caps.

So I was just sent a hardware update and the update made the problem worse. It went from blocking every 2 to 5 seconds to constant. Now my TV is unwatchable.

I'll have to check - I also have Avermedia duet and watch most local TV via the OTA tuners. I have removed most of the local digital cable channels from my guide. So the only place that I see this problem is with SDV cable channels. I'll unhide some of the local channels and see if I get the same.

Looks like i got it back close to where it was before the upgrade fiasco.

I had to downgrade it to 1.0.9.5 then downgrade the HW to 4884.

Then upgrade back to 1.1.7.2. and then left it there.

I'm still getting some blocking but it is once in 20 minutes or so of watching.

Basically, it's back to almost normally functioning.

I didn't have any blocking before the upgrade so I don't know if this will be something new that I just have to live with or if there is even a fix out there for it.

Still don't know what went on with it during the upgrade.

I hope the Ceton people give me a little more insight into it.

Gotta be really careful comparing blocking on copy freely vs. copy protected. Almost always the major networks are on lower frequencies than protected channels, and therefore signal levels are much higher.

xnappo

@xnappo In my case the signal is fine, but still intermittent pixelation on SDV and/or copy protected channels vs no pixelation on copy freely. I watch enough of both types and have done my due diligence on the signal going into the ceton to be quite confident in that statement. The pixelation doesn't show up on the rented box on the other side of a two way split.

@edyohome Thanks, you still might want to check your signal level/SNR on protected vs free like xnappo suggested just to rule it out. But if you get no pixelation on local and it intermittently pixelates on copy protected with your signal being fine I'd bet we have the same problem. Is the pixelation mainly around motion in the scene? Rarely do I see line pixelation.

This all sounds mightily similar to SDV copy protected pixelation the TiVo had but they were able to patch it. It had to do with CP encryption. A place in the process where the show is reencrypted.

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Speaking of which, what does installing the latest HW version thing actually do?

After it is completed and a reboot still shows I need to do it.

Did you reboot or cold boot? Try updating again, but don't restart instead shutdown and wait 30 seconds before powering on.

This is what Ceton told me when updates werent "sticking" and it worked.

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Did a reboot with both cards. I find it somewhat incredulous a cold boot would make a difference, but will take your advice and report back.

That's exactly what I thought. But it's worth a shot.

Let us know if it worked.

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A cold boot forces all the components to fully discharge any and all electrical charges they still have in their capacitors, inductors, etc. A warm boot, while normally effective at resetting components, does not allow this to happen. If the card thinks it is in condition A, when it is actually in condition B, and problems occur, a cold boot will force it to reset to its default startup state.

After installing a HW Update on the InfiniTV, an actual power-cycle (not just a reboot) is required for it to take effect.

Was this resolved BlaZeR? I'm running into the exact same error when trying to update to the 1.1.8.2 firmware, the HW update went smoothly.

When I got the last beta they told me I had to install it from the diag webpage instead of from the Ceton diags Windows tool...

xnappo

Ceton Uptime 21 Days.jpg 205k .jpg file

I'm doing a little experiment on my Ceton Uptime, I should have been way beyond this point, but my WHS box rebooted 8/16 or 17 after installing an MS update anyway, before something else funky happens, i'm at 21 days up time. I'm running a PCIe tuners on a whs 2011 server, runs 24X7. Been running this config for serveral months, and it's by far the best setup, much better than when I had it installed in my HTPC,