Since my purchase of a MSI MEGA-180 barebone I am using Mediaportal as a pvr software. My hardware configuration in detail is as follows:
MSI MEGA-180 de luxe (nVidia nForce2 chipset)
AMD Sempron 2500 socket-A
512 MB ddr-333
Maxtor 160GB IDE
LiteOn DVD+/-RW dual layer
Leadtek WinTV 2000 XP Expert
I almost have everything working now (still struggling with xmltv), but one thing I really dislike is that the recorded video seems to hold/freeze every second during playback with either mediaportal or ms-mediaplayer. Watching TV works like a charm and during recording the CPU load amounts less than 50%, so I don't think the cpu is the bottleneck here. The audio is recorded as uncompressed PCM, because any compression like mp3 gives too much cpu load. I am using a software codec for video capture (what else
which is picVideo MJPEG by Pegasus software, which gave very good results on a Duron 700 MHz pc using virtualdub when capturing from cvbs input. What I find very strange is that when I look at the properties in explorer of a .avi file recorded with mediaportal I see that the framerate equals 24 frames/second, where I would expect it to be 25 frames/second because the source is PAL-BG. Is there anybody who had a similar problem and/or knows how to tackle this phenomenon?
:shock:
Thanks in advance, Leo
MSI MEGA-180 de luxe (nVidia nForce2 chipset)
AMD Sempron 2500 socket-A
512 MB ddr-333
Maxtor 160GB IDE
LiteOn DVD+/-RW dual layer
Leadtek WinTV 2000 XP Expert
I almost have everything working now (still struggling with xmltv), but one thing I really dislike is that the recorded video seems to hold/freeze every second during playback with either mediaportal or ms-mediaplayer. Watching TV works like a charm and during recording the CPU load amounts less than 50%, so I don't think the cpu is the bottleneck here. The audio is recorded as uncompressed PCM, because any compression like mp3 gives too much cpu load. I am using a software codec for video capture (what else
:shock:
Thanks in advance, Leo