Winfast TV2000 XP Expert, Capture Quality Problem. Help?

[tiger_rick]

Hi Guys,

I bought a new sound card and have finally got my TV2000 XP Expert card working. Picture is OK when watching, although my arial connection is not the best (i'm borrowing a signal booster).

I have problems capping. When I capture in MPEG-2 or DVD, the pic is poor and drops a lot of frames. I have a 1.7gb Athlon processor and 512 RAm, so I dont think it should. Anyway, I'm not too bothered about that. The main problem is, when capping straight to MPEG-1, the pic quality isn't too bad and the sound is in sync. However, I get small liney blocks appear all over the place on play back. I've included some examples, but they don't show it to it's full extent. it's really often and annoying when playback.

I'm using WinPVR. Anyone Help ?? Pleeeasse ??

[beamguy]

I capture directly to Mpeg4 with the 3ivx codec & PCM audio. I have turned off a few of the quality options in the 3ivx settings to make it run fast enough, but capture 640x480 images on my athlon xp1700 system with a little cpu overhead.

Note - my audio compression is small, and gives me a final file that is 50% audio and 50% video, but is still smaller than the mpeg2 option.

I do this with the standard tv2000xp software that comes from the box.

Note - DivX & XivD both would capture the video, but when finished I would find that the audio was only sampled in 8 bits at a very low sample rate (despite what the settings were when I started).

[tw1965a]

>>I have a 1.7gb Athlon processor and 512 RAm, so I dont think it >>should. Anyway

Use system tool to see the CPU Usage is over 100% or not.

My pc is Athlon XP 1700+ too.
Here are the CPU usage when recording "DVD NTSC" format:
WinFast PVR 3.0.9.24 : 100%
WinFast PVR 3.0.9.26 : 100%
WinFast PVR 3.0.9.33 : 75~85%

[Pasty]

tiger_rick, don't know if you've seen this thread I started, but it looks like it's an Athlon/Winfast issue. Try the older WinFast PVR as recommended in this thread and the blocks will go away (they did on my Athlon 900):

https://www.videohelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=202623

[openup]

Leadtek also release new drivers and a new winpvr a couple of days ago. You could try those too.