WinTV PVR capturing - blocky and not smooth

[Dave2001]

Hi ,

I just got a WinTV PVR( the old one ) for my birthday ( today ) from ebay . Now i was trying to capture something .
As it is sunday and no shops are open here i had to hook up a vcr via the antenna cable to the card . This made it possible to watch the Video.

Capturing went fine - almost no CPU usage ( due to the onboard MPEG2 chip i believe ) . But when i want to watch it - with either Windows Media player or Power DVD it gets all blocky from time to time and sometimes skips for seconds. The whole file seems to be kind of messy . In PowerDVD i could check that the Bitrate is 9.8MB/s so that shouldnt be a problem . Is there anything else i should try ?

Iam recording with WinTV 2000 which i donwloaded from the Hauppauge site .

System Specs :

OS : WinXP SP1
CPU : AMD Athlon XP 2500+
RAM : 1 GB
GFX: NVIDIA GF4 TI4200 VIVO
Board : ASUS

If there is any more info you need - or something wou want me to try - let me know and i will do it !

Thanks alot already !!

Dave

[Dave2001]

One more thing to mention ....

Whenever i click on one of the captured files - explorer crashes ...
Iam not sure if this has something to do with the capturing itself ... but it is worth mentioning i think.

As well i can see that my HDD isnt that busy .

[Dave2001]

Damn reload button

[SHS]

what drivers did install?.
As for explorer crashes that problem with Windows Explorer disable perview by turn off Web mode.

[Dave2001]

The card shows up twice in the Hardware Manager :

Streaming Capture Device with Driver vers. : 3.0.19228.0
WinTV 878/9 VWF Video driver with vers.: 3.12.0.0

Thanx for the tip with the preview

Dave

[Dave2001]

If it helps i got some more info from a tool i found :

Model 45234 Rev. D321
Serial #4229041
Tuner Formats: PAL (B/G)
Tuner Audio: Stereo (MSP3415)
Video Formats: NTSC ( M ) PAL ( B G H I D K M N NCOMBO ) SECAM ( L L' )
Audio Outputs: Internal and BackPanel
External Inputs: 2
S-Video Inputs: 1
Teletext: Yes (Software)
Radio: FM
Decoder: BT878
Tuner Model: Philips FM1216

EEprom Contents:
84 12 00 00 05 50 0e 7f 04 15 23 b2 b0 91 34 91 00 00 00 00 05
84 0a 00 01 01 20 77 00 40 b1 87 40 00
74 02 01 86 03
79 37

hcwAud32.DLL 3.17.19270
hcwAV.DLL 1.27.19061 SOLO Win2k Version
hcwI2C.DLL Not Available
hcwI2C32.DLL 2.5.18160
hcwPNP.DLL Not Available
hcwPNP32.DLL 3.10.19123
hcwTuner.DLL 3.10.19198
hcwChan.DLL 3.6.18143
hcwTVDlg.DLL 3.11.19257
hcwTVWnd.DLL 3.9.20004 PVR-PCI
hcwUtl32.DLL 3.1.19193
hcwo2kboard.dll 1.5.19221 Win2k Version
hcwo2kusr.dll 1.5.19221
HCWSlipFR.ax 1.4.19340
HCWSlipWriter.ax 1.4.19340
HCWSnapShot.ax Not Available
HCWSoloCap.ax 1.6.19145 Win2k Version
IVIAudio.ax Not Available
IVIVideo.ax Not Available
hcwpsip.DLL Not Available
bt878dma.exe Not Available
btpcivid.vxd Not Available
btvid.drv Not Available
btvid_16.dll Not Available
btvid_32.dll Not Available
btutil16.dll Not Available
btutil32.dll Not Available
btviddlg.dll Not Available
btddi.dll Not Available
btcc.dll Not Available
btpciaud.vxd Not Available
btwavein.drv Not Available
btaud.dll Not Available
btaud16.dll Not Available
btdspm5.dll Not Available
btdspp5.dll Not Available
bt848.drv Not Available
bt848.vxd Not Available
bt848_16.dll Not Available
bt848_32.dll 3.06.18160
bt848ddi.dll Not Available
bt84xcc.dll Not Available
btvvc.drv Not Available
btvvc32.drv Not Available
bt848vbi.386 Not Available
bt848wst.dll 3.06.18160
btgpio16.dll Not Available
btgpio32.dll 1.6.18160

[SHS]

do the files play back fine in WinTV2000?.

[Dave2001]

I actually havent tried that one yet . I always tried in PowerDVD . But what i found out is that when i record i need to minimize the window . Then it seems a lot better .
Iam not sure why though ....

Dave