How long does your Hauppauge card take to start??

[BKCH]

Hi Guys,

I'm using TV server on Vista (client on XP) and when I start watching a stream through my Hauppauge PVR-250MCE capture card it has a long delay after I click on until it starts playing video - like 7-8 seconds. By comparision my Digital FTA card (DVB-T) only takes about 2 seconds - have other people got similar delay times with Hauppauge cards? This hasn't changed with different builds etc - it's always been this way. (Changing channels is quick - it's just the initial turning on that is slow)

I've attached a log showing the delay on the server but at the moment I'm just trying to understand if this is expected behaviour

Thanks

[Mew]

Hi BKCH

I use a Hauppauge PVR-150 on my desktop where I like to try MediaPortal updates before applying them to my HTPC.

I have found it takes longer to start up than the Hauppauge HVR-4000s I have in my HTPC. Also, for the first 5 seconds or so the picture is black & white and has some interference and then suddenly changes to colour and is OK form then on. Channel changes are also fairly quick. When I have used the Hauppauge PVR-500 (which is essentially 2 PVR-150s on one card) in my HTPC it has been similar.

I believe that someone in another thread said that it took longer to initially build the graph for analogue cards than digital ones so that is probably the reason.

Mew

[diehard2]

You guys should be grateful, it used to take over 20 seconds before I found that bug . I don't have one now, or I would take a look at it.

[BKCH]

lol - glad you found that one diehard2!!!

I'm starting to suspect it could be a vista thing - but before I rebuild my server to XP it would be great to find out if other users have similar delays

[garry]

I have similar delays with 2 hvr-1600 cards on Windows 2003. These cards are analog and digital (ATSC). Startup for ATSC is much quicker than analog, but I'd still like both to be faster if possible.

[chemelli]

I'm a Vista user with a HVR-4000 and with latest SVNs things improved a lot. I was on 15/20 secs before, I'm now on 4/5 secs...

Also channel zapping is good now, 2 secs...even if it's still slower than in WinTV but the Hauppauge application doesn't need to take in to account all possible graphs for all possible cards

Simone

[chemelli]

Take a look at this fantastic patch from misterd to solve your issues with analog cards: http://forum.team-mediaportal.com/pa...ds-t33290.html

[revs]

My Nova-T card is really quick, couple of seconds. However my new Nova-S2-HD card takes ages, and channel changes on it also take ages. I really dislike the affect the S2 card has had on my system - completely messed it up. oh well...

EDIT: I take it all back. Since my reinstall of windows and MP, both cards are working great, and they dont take much more than a few seconds to turn on.