Is this Possible -TVR

[camelot3001]

Hi to everybody
I have a rather unusual question but i would really like an answer.
Recently i purchased a KWorld DVD Maker USB 2.0 which comes with the

PVR Plus Suite.At first i didn't really show any interest to the TVR

program that is provided for capturing for this device.Well the

quality was a bit low for my taste and i have to say i ommited to

activate the high quality preview so the display seemed blocky for any

serious capturing.Since then a tried a lot of capturing progs with the

best results obtained by the combination of VirtualVCR & PIC codec

which gave a high quality capture BUT with the expense of some dropped

frames about 3-4 per hour of capturing and some audio desync which was

successfully dealt with the use of a little proggie and

Virtualdub.However i was always haunted by this amount of dropped

frames and the inablity to use anything else.Well this was the story

till last Sunday that i had to use TVR for scheduled recording of the

Final of Euro 2004(Yes Greece is the CHAMPION ) .To my surprise

although i recorded in MPEG -2 using a bitrate around 8000 kbps (i had

never believed in this kind of capture because the combination of VVCR

& PIC seemed to be the edge of my recording capabilities and any test

from other capturing apps in mpeg-2 resulted in massive frame-drop or

crashes ) the picture was quite good except on some high - actions

scenes like close-ups on Haristeas after the Golden GOAL which

delivered a lot of blocking to low half of the screen . SO the million

dollar question is: IS it possible to trick/patch/hack TVR when i

capture in AVI instead of using Uncompressed AVI (about 1 GB per

minute) to use some lossless codec like Huffy or better PIC in order

ro get the best capturing quality.
To my believe TVR uses some kind of caching mechanism in order to

avoid constant disk access that results in other occassions like VVCR

to drop-frames everytime something in the disk is not perfect.
My specs are:
CPU P4 2.4 Ghz
HDD 1. Maxtor 160 GB 7200 RPM 8MB cache (the funny thing with this

disk is that it starts perfect with 0 drop-frames but after some time

it delivers about 4-5 drops and little later it goes to 20 and even

later it goes up to 120.Maybe something is wrong with defrag ;

although is brand new and just formatted)
2. IBM 40GB 7200 this disk works different it starts with a

drop of 1 frame and later it goes to 4-5 but it stays there except of

course something goes wrong
Every idea every suggestion is more than welcome
OS Windows Xp Pro
Memory 512 MB


PS1 By the way i just installed the latest patch but difference
PS2 In the FTP site of kworld it seems there is a 2.7 version of TVR

anyone tried it ??? ( i have TVR 1.1)

[iantri]

If your equipment is USB 1.1, it probably does compression in the hardware since USB 1.1 bandwdth is very limited (11mbps, far below what is needed for uncompressed video).

If this is the case, there is nothing you can do -- pick up a cheap BT848/878 based card -- they can be found for as little as CDN$20 and the quality is good.