BBP / BBP ASIO / Live 0.90.80 with Stereo Enhancer

The latest, Leif; 90.82, and it’s working fine at this time.

Hey,

I had the problem again today.. the red blinking bars.
And while it happened , i looked at the processor/memory load , memory remained constant at 10%.
The processor load increased from 27 to 59 %.
The input oscilloscope did not give any sign of clipping. The output oscilloscope did not clip.
The clip warning (is it still in the settings/calibration area?) did not blink.
The audio that came out of BBP was perfect. No problem.
I rerouted the studio&STL to another processor and got BBP offline , did not switch it of or changed anything, the result was no audio input to BBP and the bars went on blinking in a steady interval! one sec red , one sec normal.
Cause i read something about an dpc latency checker , i had it running with it.. it floated around 100Us and a maximum of 300. No problem there.

So…. next time i’ll try to find the exact source of the increased cpu load and take a look at the hmzzz ultra vnc program ?
which is the only thing running next to the standard programs.

Ehm crap? Now what ?

Joop

Leif,

Last night our BBP had the skipping issue again. It’s like a scratched CD or perhaps a "hiccup" where small blocks of audio repeat themselves.

One of my partners went to the station (I was in a friend’s wedding at the time) and called me. I asked him to mute the PGM audio out of the console and notice if the bars would continue blinking red – and they did. Even with no audio at the input at all bars were randomly blinking red. The PC was restarted and the problem vanished. The PC was running for 7 days before the failure. This is the second time this happens.

Any ideas on what leads to such a problem ?

Ricardo

It seems that my problem was caused by a router that was giving trouble. I had the same problem again, and now it wasn’t disappearing after restarting BBP. It took me 48! hours before i did find the troublemaker. For some reason the upload was very very slow. And since i have 3 routers connect down the line it was hard to find out the exact problem.

I first thought it was caused by the ISP, because they had a nation wide problem at the same day i had problems. I had to give the router a hard reset before the problem was solved, a soft one was not enough.

Anyway the problem is solved, i think the 2 times before were caused by the router too. So forget it Leif 😉

I learned another thing. If the upload isn’t running smooth in edcast when using livelink in BBP, also the speaker output from SAM is shitty. I don’t know why that is, but it is a fact.

Uhn, and what should I do since my BBP is driving a MPX STL and no encoders whatsoever ? ❓

Any recommendations on a rollback to any previous version that does not have such a problem ?

Anyway.. I’ve put a sign asking for a weekly restart of the BBP PC until this issue is solved… Leif, notice that this PC has a fresh, stripped down W2K as the OS. I still have the XP hard drive as spare though.

Have a safe trip Leif.

Ricardo

Well, now things are getting worse.. restarts are needed every 2-3 days.. Pretty weird… We’re still using V 0.90.80 because of Challenger – it DOES make a difference and our station is the best sounding station in the whole dial !

Leif, could you post a list of services you would recommend on a stripped-down-to-the-bone W2K standalone PC ? I have already disabled a couple of them, but something is still screwing up our PC. The PC does not have a NIC installed, so network is not being accessed.

I also have Windows Embedded SP1 Demo and I am considering using it. Would you recommend it ?

Thanks

Ricardo

Heya Leif,

Just to be on the safe side.. is it advisable to switch to your latest forum release ?
Besides the red blinking bars there is no sound problem… so we don’t mind.

greets.. and Thailand ? better weather ?

Joop