Hauppauge WinTV PVR 250 Audio Sync Problems when viewing

[swadey]

Hi all,

I'm a new owner of a WinTV PVR 250 but I'm having problems when viewing TV. Every once in a while, video frames get dropped, without any audio glitches leaving the audio/video out of sync. After a while the video seems to resync itself (it can take minutes). I can force this to happen by changing channels and then changing back.

Anybody else have problems like this? Are there solutions to it? In looking around a bit, I haven't found anything relevant, but maybe I'm blind.

For reference, my machine is:

P4 2.6 800Mhz FSB
Shuttle XPC SB65G2 (Intel 865PE chipset) Bios and drivers up to date
512 MB DDR400
200GB 7,200RPM WD dive
Win2k SP4 with all the updates
GeForce4 Ti 4800 Video card

Thanks in advance!

[parsonsj]

Check out this site

http://www.shspvr.com/forum/

Look for you driver versions and problems

Hauppauge never has gotten their drivers just right.

[swadey]

Hmmm... I checked that site out and I'm using the most up to date drivers (as far as I can tell). That site seems to indicate that there are problems associated with VIA chipsets, and using other programs with the intervideo decoder, but I'm just watching TV in wintv2000.

Thanks!

[parsonsj]

I have that card and you aren't really watching live as it has A hardware encoder so there is a lag. If you have more that 1 Hard drive set your temp cache spaces to different drives. make sure that they are defragged and all that I have the program on my c: drive and the Livetv cache on my g drive and saving to my h drive. Also the resolutions you set will cause different errors if I set at 12 meg captures I get about 10% drops and audio problems... play with the settings and see if you find one that doesn't give any errors.