Postby Humperdinck » 14 Apr 2006 20:04
The BSODs/crashes described in this thread are too real for one of the machines on my LAN here. I am posting this in an attempt to narrow it down.
Symptoms: When using VLC to rtp/udp stream over LAN, file format OGM, certain client machines BSODs/crashes randomly. Many different files (all OGM) streamed, BSODs happens randomly for one certain machine.
Client machine that BSODs/crashes is via chipset, AMD processor 1600+, nvidia gfx card (6200), 512Mb RAM, Windows XP, fresh reinstalled, SBlive soundcard. Other machines on LAN are better.
Drivers and bios are the latest available, XP is patched with latest upgrades (april 2006) and nothing else BSODs the machine.
It seems that VLC runs better in windowed mode. When using fullscreen the BSODs/crashes are certain to appear. Downgrading to VLC 0.8.1 did not change this, nor upgrading to 0.8.5test (nightly build april 12). Crashes do appear in windowed mode as well, but not as often as using fullscreen.
Same BSODs/crashes appear when changing soundcard to older Soundblaster card and also when using older nvidia ti200 GF3 gfx card and combinations of these. Moving cards around to different PCI slots have no effect implying that it's not IRQ conflicts involved.
It's very easy to say that this is hardware related, since out of 5 machines on the LAN, only one has the problem. However, no other crashes or BSODs appear on the machine for any other software.
If anyone would happen to find a solution or some way to narrow this issue down even more, please post to this thread or msg me.
Greetings,
/Humperdinck