Having searched for this symptom with no success, I am posting it here.

I have a problem where playback of Recorded TV on an XBox 360 extender stops after 20 or so minutes of playback after the last transport control activation.
For Digital Audio Service recordings (DVB-T/S Radio) this occurs at exactly 3m45s.

Playback appears to continue, but video and audio are frozen. Using RW to skip back gets it going again for another x minutes.

I have not noticed this on HD (H.264) recordings, but it does apply to both DVR-MS and WTV files.

Live TV does not appear to be affected.
Playback on the main machine does not appear to be affected.

PC and Xbox connected by 100Mbps switched network. No network congestion warnings.
Repeatability on audio broadcasts eliminates network issues.

To get round this I even tried converting Radio shows to MP3, but the lack of FFWD or REW makes MP3 playback useless.

Has anyone else seen this, or have any suggestions?

Windows 7 RC 7100 32 bit
Asus A8V Deluxe, Athlon X2 3800+
2 WinTV Nova-HD-S2
1 WinTV Nova-T500
LG GGW-H20L Bluray rewritable drive
XBox 360 NXE

Alban

 I seem to be having the same issue.  I haven't timed it, but watching 45 minute long .wtv files, it always stops around 20 to 30 minutes into the file and I have to stop the playback and restart it in order to finish.  I'm using an xbox 360 connected by 100Mb ethernet.  Did you come across a solution to this problem since July?

jonded

I have not come across a solution and the problem still exists in the retail version (Build 7600.16385)
When I first reported this it was on 32 bit but 64 bit suffers as well.
This is a complete system rebuild, so it is not config/hardware.

The problem appears to be inversely proportional to bit rate, so an HD programme or good bit-rate SD (e.g. BBC) suffers less.
Low bit-rate e.g. Virgin 1, Fiver manage about 15 minutes before stalling.
DVB-T Radio only manages 3-4 minutes which makes it impossible to listen to Radio recordings in bed (the remote doesn't work that far)
I have had to convert radio recordings to MP3 and listen to them through an iPod.

I don't need to stop playback to get it playing again, just pressing back-skip is enough.

I am glad at least someone else is experiencing the same problem.

Alban

New Hardware
Windows 7 Home Premium Retail (7600) 64 bit
Gigabyte M720-US3, Athlon Phenom II X4 945
4GB DDR2 RAM
2 WinTV Nova-HD-S2
1 WinTV Nova-T500
LG GGW-H20L Bluray rewritable drive
XBox 360 NXE

i have the same problem with recorded radio problems on extenders has anyone found afix yet.

 

Thanks

Juls

I have what sounds like the same problem on two completely separate networks. Both networks use a Windows 7 media centre PC (on completely different hardware), and have multiple Xbox360 extenders used for watching tv and radio. Both networks worked perfectly with Windows Vista, but since Win7 has been introduced have exhibited these problems with playback freezing, and ff/rew/skip being needed to get the video and audio playing again. It is much worse with DVB-T Radio recordings, with only a few minutes of playback, whilst some TV will playback a whole programme, and worse quality TV will usually freeze within 20 minutes. I haven't actually timed this, but I am fairly sure the timings will be similar to Alban's description above. I find it interesting that 'Alban' has changed hardware, and still the problem continues, which lead me to think about what hardware might be common between the networks. I came up with the following: Both networks concerned utilise Netgear Prosafe Gigabit switches - GS108 switches to be precise. They also both use a thomson speedtouch router, specifically a 'Bebox' provided by the ISP Be Internet (www.bethere.co.uk). I can't recall the exact model number, but I will look it up if this starts to ring bells with anyone else. ML

 Interesting, I also have a Netgear Prosafe Gigabit switch (GS108 v2).   I don't have a thomson speedtouch router however.  Maybe I'll have to try swapping out my netgear switch, see if things improve.

I tried cutting the netgear switch out, and it made no difference (connected the relevant devices directly to the route which has a 10/100 built-in switch). So that rules out the netgear device. I also tried connecting the extender (xbox360) via another windows 7 PC with completely different hardware, and the problem was replicated exactly.

Flow control and a whole host of other settings on the NIC have been tried (enabled/disabled etc) - all made no difference at all.

The only hardware in common between all our PCs is a Terratec Cinergy 2400iDT card, but other posters have already stated they had Hauppauge devices, so I don't think the TV card is the issue. And the processor (Intel E8400) and OS (Windows 7 Ultimate). I have been through the hardware lists for each PC - everything else is different (including hard disk, ICH version, NIC, motherboard manufacturers, graphics cards (one intel, one nvidia)).

 Two xbox 360's on the network with the same problems. Both worked perfectly under Vista.