Hi!
I have a PixelView PlayTV PVR. The original drivers for it only work with the "doctored" Cyberlink PowerVCR disc it comes with. I have other driver's but they don't allow the use of the FM Tuner. (I know, I need a different card soon.) Anyways, I can go back to the old drivers without a problem and have the TV and FM (the TV app that comes with the cars is AWFUL). To have the FM Radio function, I have to use the old drivers. Unfortunately, there's a problem - I have to use the Cyberlink PowerVCR, which isn't a bad program, but it locks up capturing. The picture just plain freezes and it drops a mess of frames. Can someone please give me suggestions as to what causes this lockup and ow to remedy it? Any help is truly appreciated!
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Just a wild guess here, but I remember reading something about overlay on some video cards causing problems while capturing. If you go into PowerVCR's "System settings" click the "Video" tab there is the option there to switch to "non overlay", with overlay off your video card and processor will have to work harder to create the preview feild so shrink it down quite a bit to lower the cpu drain.
Latest chipset drivers (ie Via 4-in-1 if you have a Via based board) and latest bios update, may help resolve issues with regard to bottlenecks on the pci bus.
I don't know anything about your card, but find it hard to believe that the doctored PowerVCR is your only option, some pretty resourceful people around and powervcr is a very limiting software package so its likely someone knows how to get your card working with other software.
I'll keep my eyes open and if I see or think of anything else I'll let you know. -
Muffzilla,
What CPU and motherboard chipset do you have? I always had lockups during capturing in PowerVCR II 3.0 on my Athlon XP 1800+ CPU, SiS730 chipset, and Pinnacle Studio PCTV capture card. I also had lockups, but less frequently, with TMPEnc. Pinnacle's web site specifically warns about SiS chipsets. After I switched to an Intel 2.4GHz CPU and Intel 845 chipset and kept my capture card, I had no more lockups.
Before I switched to Intel, I checked for CPU overheat, switched capture card, switched sound card, swapped PCI slots, re-installed Win98se, re-installed WinMe, and did other crap, all to no avail.
Naturally I'm an Intel believer now. -
It's an Athlon XP 1600 on an ABIT KR7A-RAID motherboard, which is the Via KT-266 chipset. I'm thinking it might be Norton Anti-virus running in the background. That's the only think Prolink's website says to try. Even if it is that though, why would someone want to turn off anti-virus software to record. You need to do that manually and it kinds of defeats the purpose of setting up automated recordings.
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