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<blockquote data-quote="ixian" data-source="post: 395253" data-attributes="member: 54932">I think I got the Arcsoft thing nailed down - apparently it's a problem TMT users in general having been bitching about for months, i.e. once you install it Arcsoft Codecs take over your system. BUT only some versions of TMT, including, of course, the one that ships with the HDPVR. Highly annoying to track this down.Anyway, apparently by using something like RadLight Filter Manager you can manually set the Directshow merits for Arcsoft to a lower value. It's tricky, because if you look at them they seem to be set to 0600, which is the default merit, but that is apparently what's bugged, because you actually have to bump them down, lower than your other installed codecs. After that, reboot and the Arcsoft forum users report the issue is fixed....at least until TMT gets patched/upgraded, and you get to do it again.This whole thing is really, really stupid and probably the root cause of many issues I've been having since I got my HDPVR. I suspect some combination of the Arcsoft codec version and my video driver version(s) have been giving me grief for a month, but every time I thought I was testing a different codec I got the same issue. Turns out it's been using Arcsoft the whole time no matter what I set it to inside MP's config (or MPC-HT/Zoomplayer for that matter - it over-rides those too!).I'll try it tonight.I got my (single) HDPVR to show up, expand, etc, and it appears at first I can do manual time-shifting, although I noticed doing a manual record that it produces a .ts file that is zero bytes in size, so I'm not sure what's up there.Hopefully I will get my stupid Arcsoft codec issue resolved tonight and then I can really test it.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="ixian, post: 395253, member: 54932"] I think I got the Arcsoft thing nailed down - apparently it's a problem TMT users in general having been bitching about for months, i.e. once you install it Arcsoft Codecs take over your system. BUT only some versions of TMT, including, of course, the one that ships with the HDPVR. Highly annoying to track this down. Anyway, apparently by using something like RadLight Filter Manager you can manually set the Directshow merits for Arcsoft to a lower value. It's tricky, because if you look at them they seem to be set to 0600, which is the default merit, but that is apparently what's bugged, because you actually have to bump them down, lower than your other installed codecs. After that, reboot and the Arcsoft forum users report the issue is fixed....at least until TMT gets patched/upgraded, and you get to do it again. This whole thing is really, really stupid and probably the root cause of many issues I've been having since I got my HDPVR. I suspect some combination of the Arcsoft codec version and my video driver version(s) have been giving me grief for a month, but every time I thought I was testing a different codec I got the same issue. Turns out it's been using Arcsoft the whole time no matter what I set it to inside MP's config (or MPC-HT/Zoomplayer for that matter - it over-rides those too!). I'll try it tonight. I got my (single) HDPVR to show up, expand, etc, and it appears at first I can do manual time-shifting, although I noticed doing a manual record that it produces a .ts file that is zero bytes in size, so I'm not sure what's up there. Hopefully I will get my stupid Arcsoft codec issue resolved tonight and then I can really test it. [/QUOTE]

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