After many hours of trying and patching I fixed the problem. Finally I found the following patch windowsxp-kb896626-v2-x86-deu - applied it and - taraaaaaaaa! It works great - no crashes and no error messages.

Okay - Here are my settings with Terratec Cinergy S USB under WinXP Home SP2:
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Hi! I also use the the Terratec Cinergy S USB Hardware Box. ProgDVB starts and I can select the device (Terratec USB-S). But between 10 oder 20 seconds later ProgDVB crashes with an error message.

I deselected all modules and deleted the Teletext plugin (also Error-messages with the Teletext plug ...