pvr150 producing visible interlacing lines even on TV

[vifa84]

I have a hauppauge pvr150 and am not real happy with the performance. I have standard cable connected through the coax connection on the card and recording tv shows using GBpvr. The program seems to work pretty good and record the shows when it's supposed to but I have interlacing lines mostly on diagonal images even on the tv. Why is this? From what I have read, interlacing should not be visible on a standard tv, only on a monitor. I record the shows to my computer and stream them to a dlink dsm-320 media player. dvds and divx play fine with no lines. It's only the recorded tv shows. I don't want to remove the interlacing because it degrades the video, usually blurring it. Is there something else I should consider?

[jagabo]

Maybe there's something wrong with the way your dsm-320 plays interlaced MPEG files?

My liteon LDV-2002 Divx/DVD player plays the MPEG files straight out of WinTV2000 perfectly. So does the TV-out of my old Matrox G400 video card (one of the few cards that can).

I have interlacing lines mostly on diagonal images even on the tv.

That doesn't sound like an interlace issue. Problems displaying interlaced MPEG will give you fast (30 per second) jerky motions, or flickering picutures. What frame size are you recording at?

[vifa84]

Maybe so. I guess I could convert one to svcd or dvd and play it on my dvd player. The dsm-320 doesn't do this with dvd movies converted to divx or mpeg, it plays those perfectly. I'll try a couple things: I'll convert one to dvd, convert one using deinterlacing and I'll try recording with wintv2000 and see if it changes anything and report back.

I am using just a standard coax connection to the card so my video isn't great to start out with.

[jagabo]

Which recording template are you using?