BTV+BM=BSD for me.. :(

[chicagosidster]

Ok I purchased both BTV and BM as well as the Link software.

Specs

Windows XP SP2
Pent 2.8ghz Duo Duel Core CPU
2 Gig of Ram
2 Sata HD's 700 Gig total (folderpooled in BTV)

Nvida 7300 GS (Video Out)

USB Pinnacle HDTV (Digital Signal In)
WinTV 1600 (Digital In)
WinTV 150 (S-Video - Direct TV)

Serial Controlled Direct TV Connection

WinTV 150 USB Remote Controll (Using Logitech 880)


I noticed once I installed Beyond Media and have both Beyond Media and BTV running windows after about 20 to 30 minutes of recording the system bluescreens.

Has anyone else had issues running both BM and BTV on the same box at the same time? I am not playing media and using BTV at the same time I simply have both loaded.

I removed BM from startup and rebooted the computer to temporarily resolve the issue however can I run both in the future or is there something I should do?

Thanks,
ChicagoSidster

[Voxelflinger]

It should run fine with your pc configuration. Maybe it's your video or capture cards causing the problem.

I would suspect the pooled folders.

My BM/BTV works fine at the same time but I also don't have pooled drives.

Does BTV work ok by itself?
Does BM work ok by itself?

I assume link is on an different PC.

[chicagosidster]

It appears BTV works fine on its own. I have not loaded BM on its own yet. I will change the way things are setup with the drive configuration and see if that fixes the issue.

The Link software is indeed on different machines on my home network. That link software is pretty slick.

[Voxelflinger]

I have used BM for awhile but ended up going with other software instead. It's great if you have a small collection of music and photos.
I just found it easier to program Firefly to launch the programs I use than the BM interface.

I use link more to remote program BTV or view listings from another room than to watch video or tv.

[OverTheAir]

Maybe try reverting to earlier nVidia graphics drivers?

I had nice stable system with latest drivers displaying 1024x768.
Bought new 1080p Westinghouse 24" monitor.
Set up resolution for new monitor and then had BSOD when opening BM, nothing else changed. Thought it was fluke failure. Re-started and did disk checks etc then started BM. Same thing again but this time BSOD actually took out the MBR or somesuch because the OS wouldn't even boot and the RAID was degraded.

Long story short I played around with many options but in the end reverted to 84.21 drivers. It seems OK with BM but I'm tending to avoid BM now although I suspect its actually nVidia driver issues.

[Rich A]

I have not had that kind of issue with my system. My specs are considerably lower than yours (see my specs below). About the only thing unusually that I do is to make sure no recording is being done on the physical system drive. For example, my system and programs (only BTV and BM) reside and execute from a dedicated C: drive. No other partitions or other things running. My recording drive however is a physically different drive. Presently consisting of two 250 gb sata drives configure in a RAID 0 500 GB total drive. This setup has been working fine for me for over 3 years .. Note. My setup consists of a dedicated BTV server .. nothing else is run on that unit. Consider it sort of a "TIVO on steroids".

The first thing I would do if I were you would be to check each program by itself. You've already confirmed the BTV application is okay. Now check the BM to make sure something in that isn't right. They should work fine together.

One other thing .. I also have drive pooling enabled. But that other drive is also stand alone. I include a 500 GB removable SATA drive for my drive pooling. Since drive pooling is one of the more recently added new features, another thing you should try is turning that off.

Putting your default recording folder on a physically different hard drive solves a lot of problems.