Hauppauge HD-PVR & Colossus Support (2 Viewers)

[jeff_yeary]

Hello!
This is my first post and I have been at bringing up MP for about 2 months now- with a Colossus. I have video and audio and using a non HD channel the video and audio are in sync. When I change to an HD channel the audio is way behind the video. Any suggestions?

 

[mm1352000]

Hi and welcome Jeff

What codecs are you using, and what audio input (HDMI, SPDIF or RCA)?

mm

 

[jeff_yeary]

Hi MM...
Wow half a world away - Thanks for the support, I had a feeling it'd be you offering help! As a side note I have a '63 OZ Mini - a very fun car. Anyway the audio input is on the composite octopus cable and the output is thru the hdmi cable out of the processor. the video CODECS - oh boy- you had to ask that! I am using whatever was installed with the drivers and or motherboard. I was hoping there was some easy setting I was missing!

 

[mm1352000]

Wow half a world away - Thanks for the support, I had a feeling it'd be you offering help!

I was hoping there was some easy setting I was missing!

It may well be. The settings to check would be -->here<--. MediaPortal configuration -> codecs and renderer -> TV tab. You want to check the MPEG / AC3 audio codec and h.264 video codec. A bit of trial and error might be required. Let's hope some of the other good people that monitor this thread can make some recommendations about what works for them.

mm

 

[jeff_yeary]

MM -> I'm not sure I understood the link you posted about 3TB drives reviewed by AnandTech? maybe that was something else you were looking into?

I attached a copy of my codecs page that I am using and will play with some of them to see if I can change something for the better. I'll post with results good, bad, or ugly.

Again mm - thanks for the help!

 

[mm1352000]

Hi again Jeff

Sorry about the link - you guessed correctly. You also found the place I was trying to direct you to. Based on your current settings, I would say try the Microsoft DTV-DVD video decoder as your h.264 video decoder.

mm

 

[jeff_yeary]

Well, no joy with experimenting on the CODECs - no change. I tried the optical audio input but could not make it work. Is there a setting somewhere for which audio input to use. I sure couldn't find one!

Maybe I was starring too long at my screen last night but its the video that is lagging the audio now! As I would watch TV, I would notice that the video would pause just a little bit. The Audio does not pause but the video does - then they get out of sync if I keep watching the video lags more and more. If I press the >> key the Audio/Video sync back up and then the video pauses and I'm back with lagging video again. This seems more an issue with processing or storage than codecs? Any one else see/solve this one?

XP SP3
INTEL I3-2100T - 2.5 GHz
4GB Mem
blah blah blah

 

[R300]

Well, no joy with experimenting on the CODECs - no change. I tried the optical audio input but could not make it work. Is there a setting somewhere for which audio input to use. I sure couldn't find one!

Maybe I was starring too long at my screen last night but its the video that is lagging the audio now! As I would watch TV, I would notice that the video would pause just a little bit. The Audio does not pause but the video does - then they get out of sync if I keep watching the video lags more and more. If I press the >> key the Audio/Video sync back up and then the video pauses and I'm back with lagging video again. This seems more an issue with processing or storage than codecs? Any one else see/solve this one?

XP SP3
INTEL I3-2100T - 2.5 GHz
4GB Mem
blah blah blah

If you are changing the audio input then you must specify that in the TV Server Config........ it is a manual change for each channel as there is just no 'easy' way to do it for all channels yet. I would go with the optical audio if you are using an AVR sound system..... if just a TV speaker then stay with RCA audio.


I use the SAF package from Hoborg for codecs ..... it plays everything I throw at it .... from live TV to HD audio formats.

Your issue sounds like a codec issue so it will be just a matter of finding the right combo for your hardware.

 

[jeff_yeary]

Thanks R300 and MM - I think most of my issues are resolved. I will post something a little longer so that someone might gain from my excursions in MP. It would have gone faster today had the SPDIF #2 been the "Obvious choice" for optical input (that one was frustrating)!

Anyway the "Hoborg" codecs did the trick for syncing audio and HD/Video.

 

[mm1352000]

It would have gone faster today had the SPDIF #2 been the "Obvious choice" for optical input (that one was frustrating)!

That is noted in the first post.

Anyway the "Hoborg" codecs did the trick for syncing audio and HD/Video.

Excellent!