Drivers for the Aetheros were updated a few days ago. We've been running the latest version of VLC for a while (0.9.8a).
It seems possible to me that the network card could just be bad, and I'm going to try and swap it as soon as our network guy wanders around (he's real busy putting out fires today).
A couple other pieces of information:
We've got two Osprey-450e video capture cards installed in the machine. We're using those to capture from DISH network satellites, DVD's, etc. When I look under the capture cards in Hardware -> Device Manager I notice that there are four Osprey-450e Bridge Devices, and four Osprey-450e Capture Devices listed. The Bridge Devices have a Resources tab, and when I check those I see IRQ's 17, 18, 16, and 17. I also notice that IRQ 16 is being shared with a RAID controller and the NVidia GeForce video card.
I know Windows XP is supposed to handle all the IRQ assignments automatically, but could we be having an IRQ problem here?
Another thing I'm seeing: The Osprey cards have the latest drivers installed. I am not seeing any problems streaming via vlc.exe when streaming from a file source. The crashes are occurring when I am streaming from one of the inputs on one of the capture cards. However, the files I've had to test with are only 5-7 minutes long. The crashes - when streaming from the devices - happen at different times. Sometimes right away, after I start streaming from a device, and sometimes it takes as long as 15-20 minutes.
I've also got a crash (with a different debug error) when I tried to use Windows Media Encoder.
So I am not convinced yet exactly what it might be. Seems to me it could be the NIC, but then why do the file streams work? It could be one of the capture cards, but do the errors in the debug dumps point to that?
Lots of work to do still, I think, to figure this out.
Drivers for the Aetheros were updated a few days ago. We've been running the latest version of VLC for a while (0.9.8a).
It seems possible to me that the network card could just be bad, and I'm going to try and swap it as soon as our network guy wanders around (he's real busy putting out fires today).
A couple other pieces of information:
We've got two Osprey-450e video capture cards installed in the machine. We're using those to capture from DISH network satellites, DVD's, etc. When I look under the capture cards in Hardware -> Device Manager I notice that there are four Osprey-450e Bridge Devices, and four Osprey-450e Capture Devices listed. The Bridge Devices have a Resources tab, and when I check those I see IRQ's 17, 18, 16, and 17. I also notice that IRQ 16 is being shared with a RAID controller and the NVidia GeForce video card.
I know Windows XP is supposed to handle all the IRQ assignments automatically, but could we be having an IRQ problem here?
Another thing I'm seeing: The Osprey cards have the latest drivers installed. I am not seeing any problems streaming via vlc.exe when streaming from a file source. The crashes are occurring when I am streaming from one of the inputs on one of the capture cards. However, the files I've had to test with are only 5-7 minutes long. The crashes - when streaming from the devices - happen at different times. Sometimes right away, after I start streaming from a device, and sometimes it takes as long as 15-20 minutes.
I've also got a crash (with a different debug error) when I tried to use Windows Media Encoder.
So I am not convinced yet exactly what it might be. Seems to me it could be the NIC, but then why do the file streams work? It could be one of the capture cards, but do the errors in the debug dumps point to that?
Lots of work to do still, I think, to figure this out.
Drivers for the Aetheros were updated a few days ago. We've been running the latest version of VLC for a while (0.9.8a).
It seems possible to me that the network card could just be bad, and I'm going to try and swap it as soon as our network guy wanders around (he's real busy putting out fires today).
A couple other pieces of information:
We've got two Osprey-450e video capture cards installed in the machine. We're using those to capture from DISH network satellites, DVD's, etc. When I look under the capture cards in Hardware -> Device Manager I notice that there are four Osprey-450e Bridge Devices, and four Osprey-450e Capture Devices listed. The Bridge Devices have a Resources tab, and when I check those I see IRQ's 17, 18, 16, and 17. I also notice that IRQ 16 is being shared with a RAID controller and the NVidia GeForce video card.
I know Windows XP is supposed to handle all the IRQ assignments automatically, but could we be having an IRQ problem here?
Another thing I'm seeing: The Osprey cards have the latest drivers installed. I am not seeing any problems streaming via vlc.exe when streaming from a file source. The crashes are occurring when I am streaming from one of the inputs on one of the capture cards. However, the files I've had to test with are only 5-7 minutes long. The crashes - when streaming from the devices - happen at different times. Sometimes right away, after I start streaming from a device, and sometimes it takes as long as 15-20 minutes.
I've also got a crash (with a different debug error) when I tried to use Windows Media Encoder.
So I am not convinced yet exactly what it might be. Seems to me it could be the NIC, but then why do the file streams work? It could be one of the capture cards, but do the errors in the debug dumps point to that?
Lots of work to do still, I think, to figure this out.
Sorry for the double-post. Having a real tough time with some web sites today.