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<blockquote data-quote="5Hundred" data-source="post: 214104" data-attributes="member: 62217">Thanks for the reply Marcusb, the point of this post is that i am able to get great quality from this card, but not if use mediaportal. I'm aware that the card is software encoding and had been lead to believe that meant poor quality but this is incorrect, the Pinnacle software and especially Windvr3 can produce good quality at low(ish) CPU cost. I'm trying to figure out why mediaportal cant and why it wont work at all with Tvengine3, despite it being listed as supported on the wiki, one of the reasons i bought this card. I installed windvr to enable me to use its encoder, is this what you mean by &quot;to test, try and watch analog tv with MPeg2 encoding and see how it goes&quot; if not please elaborate on how i should set this upI have tried low, medium and high bitrate settings under the encoder setting of the mediportal configuration and go from unwatchable, especially during movement, to ok quality but at maximum CPU cost (PC locks up audio out of sync). Its very frustrating as i want to use the card with Tvengine3 and i want the performance that clearly it is capable of but mediaportal cannot deliverThanks for your interest</blockquote>

[QUOTE="5Hundred, post: 214104, member: 62217"] Thanks for the reply Marcusb, the point of this post is that i am able to get great quality from this card, but not if use mediaportal. I'm aware that the card is software encoding and had been lead to believe that meant poor quality but this is incorrect, the Pinnacle software and especially Windvr3 can produce good quality at low(ish) CPU cost. I'm trying to figure out why mediaportal cant and why it wont work at all with Tvengine3, despite it being listed as supported on the wiki, one of the reasons i bought this card. I installed windvr to enable me to use its encoder, is this what you mean by [I]"to test, try and watch analog tv with MPeg2 encoding and see how it goes"[/I] if not please elaborate on how i should set this up I have tried low, medium and high bitrate settings under the encoder setting of the mediportal configuration and go from unwatchable, especially during movement, to ok quality but at maximum CPU cost (PC locks up audio out of sync). Its very frustrating as i want to use the card with Tvengine3 and i want the performance that clearly it is capable of but mediaportal cannot deliver Thanks for your interest [/QUOTE]

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