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So I've been messing with the DTCP-IP live TV functionality of PowerDVD recently due to Microsoft deciding to totally break Windows Media Center functionality in the newest update. While the PowerDVD tv watching functionality does work (I use it with an HDHomerun Prime,) I've noticed that channels tend to consistenly stop playing after a little while. Could be 25 minutes, could be 45, but it always seems to happen after a relatively short amount of time.
Are there any settings/things I can mess with to hopefully improve this, or is this pretty much just what it is? Thanks,
Hello, I am experiencing the exact same problem after being enticed to buy Cyberlink PowerDVD 16 Ultra to view my cable TV channels via a HDHomerun Prime tuner. It is happening on my desktop PC running Windows 10 Pro 64 bit version 1511 OS. It is an Intel I7 CPU with 16GB RAM and the video card is an AMD Radeon 7700 series. All softwares are at their latest updated versions.
I start PowerDVD in PC mode and it shows all my available network devices and shares including the HDHomeRun DMS tuner. I select the HDHomeRun and select the channels folder which opens up to display all of the available cable channels. I can select any channel to view and it starts playing just fine whether it be DRM protected content or not. That's good. If I just open a channel and leave it playing, like you it will ultimately stop playing and either return to display the channels menu OR it will display the word "Buffering" over the frozen video and then crash and exit with an error reporting dialog prompt to send the error info to Cyberlink. I've used that automatic error reporting dialog box several times now to send in the error logging information it supposedly collects.
I have tried all the possible suggested solutions to try and fix this condition: I've uninstalled PowerDVD and reinstalled it and it did not fix it. I've disabled Norton Anti-virus software, then uninstalled PowerDVD and reinstalled it as administrator, ran it as administrator. Still did not fix the problem. I've removed a latest Windows 10 update to see if it changed things, it did not.
I am at my wits end now on why the HDHomeRun cable TV channels keep crashing PowerDVD. The HDHomeRun box is streaming its video content via wired gigabit ethernet connection. PowerDVD does not handle ethernet LAN connection efficiently it appears also. Also my PC is set up with dual displays off the AMD Radeon 7700 series video card. One display is on DVI and the other is on HDMI connectors.
I have tried also to update the HDHomeRun Prime firmware and software to the latest versions. Still same problem with PowerDVD stops working after a while if I leave it on a single channel and don't change channels. However to make the error crash happen sooner, you can start changing channels and it will always crash and exit. This is BAD. I hope Cyberlink will fix this issue real soon. I bought PowerDVD 16 Ultra just for this reason to replace Windows Media Center disabled by Microsoft on Windows 10. Is there a solution to this crashing issue? If not Please get to the bottom of this and fix it Cyberlink.