- December 15, 2009
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HI,
I am new to Media Portal but am enjoying it very much.
I have mine all setup and working, I can :-
view/play videos/music/picture from my NAS
I can watch/record Digital Freeview TV using my Hauppauge HVR 1300 with an antenna.
What I want to do is copy all the rubbish my kids have filled my sky + HD box with. I'm in no way interested in trying to preserve the HD quality, as i don't have the time, or money for all the harddrives i would need
What I would be happy with is a good quality recording from the S-Video out of the Sky Box. (it does have one ).
I can set up media portal to watch and record this output, but I feel the quality is lacking. I get a reasonably good picture, but when there is motion I get what I can only describe as motion blur, or a very bad transition from Frame to frame, and sometimes it seems as if the "show" is running just a little bit slow, or perhaps not showing the 25fps, but it is not jerky (i hope all that makes sense)
I have no idea if this is encoder, decoder, codecs, or drivers. I don't profess to know much about any of it. What I do know is that the Hauppauge Card has an MPEG 2 encoder on board.
I have a
dual core intel 3ghz motherboard and processors
2 gb ram
250gb HD space
nvidia 8800 gts 512
Windows VIsta (not my choice and I will downgrade to XP as soon as i can find my disk)
Hauppauge WinTV-HVR-1300 Hauppauge Computer Works Ltd : WinTV-HVR-1300
Meidaportal downloaded on Friday
As far as i am aware the only codec pack i have installed are :-
FFDSHOW
Haali matrokosa splitter.
Although i have not touched the config on either.
I would appreciate any advice (in simple terms).
Cheers and thanks in advance.
Toby
I am new to Media Portal but am enjoying it very much.
I have mine all setup and working, I can :-
view/play videos/music/picture from my NAS
I can watch/record Digital Freeview TV using my Hauppauge HVR 1300 with an antenna.
What I want to do is copy all the rubbish my kids have filled my sky + HD box with. I'm in no way interested in trying to preserve the HD quality, as i don't have the time, or money for all the harddrives i would need
What I would be happy with is a good quality recording from the S-Video out of the Sky Box. (it does have one
).I can set up media portal to watch and record this output, but I feel the quality is lacking. I get a reasonably good picture, but when there is motion I get what I can only describe as motion blur, or a very bad transition from Frame to frame, and sometimes it seems as if the "show" is running just a little bit slow, or perhaps not showing the 25fps, but it is not jerky (i hope all that makes sense)
I have no idea if this is encoder, decoder, codecs, or drivers. I don't profess to know much about any of it. What I do know is that the Hauppauge Card has an MPEG 2 encoder on board.
I have a
dual core intel 3ghz motherboard and processors
2 gb ram
250gb HD space
nvidia 8800 gts 512
Windows VIsta (not my choice and I will downgrade to XP as soon as i can find my disk)
Hauppauge WinTV-HVR-1300 Hauppauge Computer Works Ltd : WinTV-HVR-1300
Meidaportal downloaded on Friday
As far as i am aware the only codec pack i have installed are :-
FFDSHOW
Haali matrokosa splitter.
Although i have not touched the config on either.
I would appreciate any advice (in simple terms).
Cheers and thanks in advance.
Toby