Narrowed it down a bit more.. Apparently the AMD drivers supplied with 10074 are crippled.. Uninstall the supplied drivers and install the win 8.1 drivers..

Thanks.. I already found the logs folder in the progdvb folder, but it's empty..

Perhaps progdvb crashes before it can dump the log..

Where is the log file?

Just a heads up to those that update to 10074 as there's something funky going on..

I tracked it down to the video renderer.. More specifically ProgDVB will crash on anything other than VMR-7 & Video Renderer. If you select VMR-9 & Enhanced Video Renderer, it'll crash.

Further investigation shows ...

I'm looking at purchasing a licence but before I do I'd just like to know if there are any restrictions? Namely I was looking at Jrivers media centre software and noticed this in their terms.

Q: I tried to restore several times, and the last time it failed.
A: You have ten free restores per year ...

You're a legend, Sultan.. That fixed it.. I can't believe i missed that setting either.. anyway, progdvb + smooth video project looks amazing couldn't be happier.. time to buy a licence..

Ok, so i've just installed the trial of progdvb and generated a 7 day key. Basically I'd like to run progdvb with ffdshow as the decoder for mpeg2 dvb-t stream. But, whenever I select the codec in the settings, it never uses ffdshow. When looking at the Directshow filter properties, I get it listed ...