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cockmonger · 01-03-2006, 12:23 PM

I have to say that i went alittle crazy this holiday season. I recieved a 19 in Sony XBRITE monitor for Christmas and decided that i wanted to put it to more use, so i obtained a copy of windows MCE (2002 edition

) and purchased a lovely WINTV PVR500 because of it's two headed feature. Unlike every other TV card i've ever owned, it plugged right in, installed and WORKED. It plays and records TV beautifully, i have a problem however. I can Pause Live TV, however when i try to rewind or fastforward it hangs up the system and then eventually tries to catch up, when it does it lacks audio. is there any remedy for this? If there is a product please give me some suggestions of what would be best and where i could pick them up. You guys have been great on advice in the past, just thought i'd thank you for that anyway.

So here's my setup

I'm running a:
1.6gHz Pentium 4 (not slow at all, though it's my prime bottleneck)
768 Mhz DDR2100 Ram
Hauppauge WINTV PVR500
ATI Radeon 9800 PRO

punx1325 · 01-03-2006, 03:02 PM

try your compression settings set it to save the file as an AVI instead and see how that does...I'd tinker with compression settings. I know my computer would do the same thing when I recorded under mpeg

cockmonger · 01-03-2006, 05:05 PM

is there anyway to do that through media center? I'm using ATI's free DVD decoder. the only options i see in media center are those for recording, FAIR, GOOD, BETTER, BEST. No AVI/MPG. Any help is greatly appreciated. Sorry for being a noob.

docbungle · 01-03-2006, 07:11 PM

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Originally Posted by cockmonger

is there anyway to do that through media center? I'm using ATI's free DVD decoder. the only options i see in media center are those for recording, FAIR, GOOD, BETTER, BEST. No AVI/MPG. Any help is greatly appreciated. Sorry for being a noob.

Media Center Edition 2005, which I have, records all video in DVR-MS format, which is microsoft proprietary format for Media Center Edition. Is 2002 the same? I would assume so. If so, the only option available are Good, Better, Etc...

I do know that your RAM is definitely a bottleneck with running MCE, as is your processor.

Having said that, I find that actually using Media Center to view any type of video to be a pain in the ass. 2005 still has the same FF/RW issues you speak of. I use it for recording only, and do all of my watching with windows media player 10. I also have an Extender and use it to watch my computer files in other rooms of the house.

To edit DVR-MS files or turn them into another format, you can use Roxio Easy Media Creator 8, one of the only software programs that will edit an MS-DVR file.

cockmonger · 01-03-2006, 09:54 PM

Thank you, i guess it's good to know that i'm not the only one with this problem, another reason to curse microsoft, thanks for the advice, I have to look into Roxio now, i havn't used a roxio product since the early days of CD burning, but look forward to it, I have to Compress this massive Orange Bowl game, it's forever and a day long, four and a half hours...CHEEBUS! anyway i'll save that for the sports section. Thanks again. TILTED rules!

Stargazer01 · 01-03-2006, 10:20 PM

you might also look into see what spindle rate your HDD is and how much cache RAM it has. Drives that are 5400RPM/2MB are not going to cut it for live tv recording/playback. Something in the 7200RPM/2/8/16MB range should do just fine.

cockmonger · 01-04-2006, 12:49 PM

i don't run anything under 7200RPM, i learned that the hard way, save 20-30 bucks but suffer slow transfer/data speeds. thanks for the input.

01-03-2006, 12:23 PM	#1 (permalink)
cockmonger Insane	Windows Media Center problems I have to say that i went alittle crazy this holiday season. I recieved a 19 in Sony XBRITE monitor for Christmas and decided that i wanted to put it to more use, so i obtained a copy of windows MCE (2002 edition ) and purchased a lovely WINTV PVR500 because of it's two headed feature. Unlike every other TV card i've ever owned, it plugged right in, installed and WORKED. It plays and records TV beautifully, i have a problem however. I can Pause Live TV, however when i try to rewind or fastforward it hangs up the system and then eventually tries to catch up, when it does it lacks audio. is there any remedy for this? If there is a product please give me some suggestions of what would be best and where i could pick them up. You guys have been great on advice in the past, just thought i'd thank you for that anyway. So here's my setup I'm running a: 1.6gHz Pentium 4 (not slow at all, though it's my prime bottleneck) 768 Mhz DDR2100 Ram Hauppauge WINTV PVR500 ATI Radeon 9800 PRO __________________ Lovely party Geoffery, but theres a turd in the punch bowl. -George Carlin

01-03-2006, 03:02 PM	#2 (permalink)
punx1325 Junkie Location: San Diego	try your compression settings set it to save the file as an AVI instead and see how that does...I'd tinker with compression settings. I know my computer would do the same thing when I recorded under mpeg __________________ If something seems too good to be true, then it probably is....

01-03-2006, 05:05 PM	#3 (permalink)
cockmonger Insane	is there anyway to do that through media center? I'm using ATI's free DVD decoder. the only options i see in media center are those for recording, FAIR, GOOD, BETTER, BEST. No AVI/MPG. Any help is greatly appreciated. Sorry for being a noob. __________________ Lovely party Geoffery, but theres a turd in the punch bowl. -George Carlin

01-03-2006, 09:54 PM	#5 (permalink)
cockmonger Insane	Thank you, i guess it's good to know that i'm not the only one with this problem, another reason to curse microsoft, thanks for the advice, I have to look into Roxio now, i havn't used a roxio product since the early days of CD burning, but look forward to it, I have to Compress this massive Orange Bowl game, it's forever and a day long, four and a half hours...CHEEBUS! anyway i'll save that for the sports section. Thanks again. TILTED rules! __________________ Lovely party Geoffery, but theres a turd in the punch bowl. -George Carlin

01-04-2006, 12:49 PM	#7 (permalink)
cockmonger Insane	i don't run anything under 7200RPM, i learned that the hard way, save 20-30 bucks but suffer slow transfer/data speeds. thanks for the input. __________________ Lovely party Geoffery, but theres a turd in the punch bowl. -George Carlin

01-03-2006, 10:20 PM	#6 (permalink)
Stargazer01 Tilted	you might also look into see what spindle rate your HDD is and how much cache RAM it has. Drives that are 5400RPM/2MB are not going to cut it for live tv recording/playback. Something in the 7200RPM/2/8/16MB range should do just fine.