Wintv pvr 250 dvd presets corrupted?

[yoda313]

Hi,

I have the Hauppauge wintv pvr 250. I've never had serious problems with it until just now. I was trying cap a tv special and I was using the dvd extra long play setting to reduce the file size. But it stuttered horribly. It was way out of synch. So I tried the long play then the dvd standard play. None of them would display properly.

Out of curiousity I selected svcd standard play mode and it cleared up just fine. So I went to the big kahouna and selected mpeg 2 12mb/s record mode (the max setting on the wintv). It was perfect. So I went to one of my personal settings of mpeg2 3000mb/s and half d1. It's dubbing just fine now.

Has anyone experienced this before? I'm using winxp with sp2. I haven't done anything to wintv. Also just last week I think I used it succesffully in the dvd preset mode.

It's no big deal if I have to manually copy the settings for the dvd modes and call them something else. I'd prefer not to uninstall and reinstall the drivers if I don't have to. That can get messy and sometimes cause more problems than it solves.

If anyone has suggestions please let me know. Again I can record in dvd quality just not with the dvd preset modes. Thanks for any tips.

Kevin

[junkmalle]

Try turning your computer off. I've seen the PVR-250 get messed up on occasion, requiring a power cycle. Not just a reboot, but a full power cycle.

[yoda313]

Hi,

Thanks I'll give that a try later. I've had it screw up too in minor ways that reboot worked. What suprised me was the regular mpeg2 modes worked perfectly. Strange.

Kevin

[junkmalle]

In case your settings are screwed up:

DVD Standard Play
Output Stream: DVD
Variable Bitrate
Bitrate: 6400
BitRate PEAK: 8000
Res: 720x480

DVD Long Play
Output Stream: DVD
Variable Bitrate
Bitrate: 4800
BitRate PEAK: 6200
Res: 720x480

DVD EXtra Long Play:
Output Stream: DVD
Variable Bitrate
Bitrate: 3000
BitRate PEAK: 4400
Res: 720x480


All have audio set to Stereo, MPEG Layer 2, 48 KHz, 384 Kbps.

I'm not sure if I've modified these somewhere along the line though.