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<blockquote data-quote="mm1352000" data-source="post: 764884" data-attributes="member: 82144">Re: AW: Analogue TV chopped audio and videoHmmm, well I wouldn't have thought that should be a problem for two reasons:1. The tuner has a hardware encoder, which should take the majority of the load of running an analog tuner away from the CPU. According to your logs, the encoder is correctly recognised and used.2. Even if you were using a software encoder, according to your logs the CPU you're using is a quad core 3.2 GHz. That should be more than powerful enough unless something else is going wrong.You could use task manager to check the CPU usage while you're trying to view channels, however I think you'll find that there is no problem there.Three or four other things that you could do/check:1. I think you're already using the latest driver, but you could try cleaning up the Hauppauge software (HCWClear) and reinstalling it.2. Check heat levels in your case. Sometimes overheating can lead to problems, and encoder chips may get quite hot.3. Try a different PCI slot (and possibly remove other PCI cards).4. Check PCI clock speed in the BIOS is set at 33 MHz.5. Use <a href="http://www.thesycon.de/deu/latency_check.shtml" target="_blank">DPC Latency Checker</a> to confirm that there are no bad drivers taking up too much IRQ (interrupt) time.mm</blockquote>

[QUOTE="mm1352000, post: 764884, member: 82144"] [b]Re: AW: Analogue TV chopped audio and video[/b] Hmmm, well I wouldn't have thought that should be a problem for two reasons: 1. The tuner has a hardware encoder, which should take the majority of the load of running an analog tuner away from the CPU. According to your logs, the encoder is correctly recognised and used. 2. Even if you were using a software encoder, according to your logs the CPU you're using is a quad core 3.2 GHz. That should be more than powerful enough unless something else is going wrong. You could use task manager to check the CPU usage while you're trying to view channels, however I think you'll find that there is no problem there. Three or four other things that you could do/check: 1. I think you're already using the latest driver, but you could try cleaning up the Hauppauge software (HCWClear) and reinstalling it. 2. Check heat levels in your case. Sometimes overheating can lead to problems, and encoder chips may get quite hot. 3. Try a different PCI slot (and possibly remove other PCI cards). 4. Check PCI clock speed in the BIOS is set at 33 MHz. 5. Use [URL="http://www.thesycon.de/deu/latency_check.shtml"]DPC Latency Checker[/URL] to confirm that there are no bad drivers taking up too much IRQ (interrupt) time. mm [/QUOTE]

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