Give Up On ATI Radeon As A Time Shifter - What R My Options?

[leebo]

I've been playing with the ATI All In Wonder Radeon for about 8 or 9 months (or has it been years?).

The quality sucks.

My system:
Athlon 1200mhz
60gig capture drive.
Win XP.
MMC 2.6


I built the system specifically for time shifting Satellite TV.
At the high quality settings I drop frames. At ALL settings, I get this strobe effect.
If I timeshif more than 90-120 mins, the software sometimes gets lost, i.e. it can't FF or RW.

I've also tried other timeshifting software and gotten poor results.

I've decided software encoding of Mpeg2 is just not the way to go. Can anyone recommend a hardware mpeg 2 encoder/decoder that time shifts?

I see provideo multimedia has several products for the PC. Anyone have experience with their products?
Anyone recommend any other hardware?

http://www.provideo.com.tw/product.htm

Thanks.

[kwag]

I've been playing with the ATI All In Wonder Radeon for about 8 or 9 months (or has it been years?).

The quality sucks.

My system:
Athlon 1200mhz
60gig capture drive.
Win XP.
MMC 2.6


I built the system specifically for time shifting Satellite TV.
At the high quality settings I drop frames. At ALL settings, I get this strobe effect.
If I timeshif more than 90-120 mins, the software sometimes gets lost, i.e. it can't FF or RW.

I've also tried other timeshifting software and gotten poor results.

I've decided software encoding of Mpeg2 is just not the way to go. Can anyone recommend a hardware mpeg 2 encoder/decoder that time shifts?

I see provideo multimedia has several products for the PC. Anyone have experience with their products?
Anyone recommend any other hardware?

http://www.provideo.com.tw/product.htm

Thanks.

If you just want to record programs off Satellite, and then view them in your PC, get WinDVR from www.InterVideo.com

You can capture real-time to MPEG-1 or MPEG-2.

If you get a WinTV GO card, or any other card that has the BT878 chip set, then download this drivers:
http://btwincap.sourceforge.net

You wont have any frames dropped.

kwag

[leebo]

Thanks.
As I said, I give up on software only capture cards. Apparently they just can't deliver on the manufacturers promises, at least in my experience.

Anyone else?

[kwag]

Thanks.
As I said, I give up on software only capture cards. Apparently they just can't deliver on the manufacturers promises, at least in my experience.

Anyone else?

That's why I suggested the WinTV with the btwincap drivers.

I capture a complete movie, and maybe drop 2 or 3 frames in the complete capture.

But only with the btwincap drivers.

kwag