totally laggy tv. (1 Viewer)

[leepee]

Area: Media Portal Program
MediaPortal Version: 0.2.0.0 RC2 (2006-07-03)
MediaPortal Skin: mce
Windows Version: Windows XP (SP2)
.NET CLR Version: 2.0.50727
DirectX Version: 4.09.00.0904 (9.0c)
Audio Codec: InterVideo NonCSS Audio Decoder for Hauppauge
Video Codec: InterVideo NonCSS Video Decoder for Hauppauge
CPU Type: Dual Core AMD Opteron 165 - 2.4GHz
Memory: 2 GB
Motherboard: A8R32-MVP Deluxe (ASUSTeK Computer INC.)
TV Card Model: Hauppauge Nova T
TV Card Type: Hardware
TV Card Driver: latest? hcw_88x_2_116_24167?
Video Card Model: Radeon X1800 Series (512 MB)
Video Card Driver: newish, 2 weeks old?
Video Card Resolution: 1152x864
Video Render Type: VMR9
Audio Card Model: Creative X-Fi Audio Processor (WDM)
Audio Card Driver: latest
Synopsis::

The tv on my pc is really laggy and is unwatchable due to stuttering. It worked pretty well when i got the newest version but tonight it degraded very quickly into an unwatchable state again. Im not sure what i am doing wrong, is my TV tuner not very good? Its the older nova T. I have a pretty good pc, so im not sure what the problem is?

 

[Nightmare77]

could be reception issues? , if you run the native software that came with the card what sort of signal strength and DB do you get?

 

[leepee]

The signal strength is a bar, and its full. It is Wintv that the card runs, but wintv is super sucky. MP is working well at the moment actually, but it was the same last night, and within half an hour it was unwatchable.
A lot of the time the tv guide doesnt really eork too well either, like i cant see the programmes on it, and they take like ages to load. im not sure, you think it could be signal related? it runs off the house aerial, and through a pretty powerful signal booster i think.

 

[leepee]

oh i forgot, "hcw helper" keeps erroring and crashing too, usually when i start the TV for the first time.

 

[Nightmare77]

don't suppose you can supply some of your logs, perhaps delete the all the logs in your directory then start up MP again and try the tv , if you have some problems again then paste in the bits from the log so we can see if there is soemthing weird going on.

Cause in all honesty there is nothing in your system that should be causing laggy TV , its a perfect system, i guess it may be driver related which can stop even the best hardware from working properly i guess. but if you can include the logs that would be sweet

 

[leepee]

These are a couple of the logs. I dont think there is anything strange going on. When i am getting problems just at the moment, the signal quality is dropping. Why is it perfect every now and then and really bad other times?

 

[jawbroken]

Can you try it without the signal booster? Or turn the signal booster amplification down? Sometimes a signal that is too strong can be as much of a problem as one that is too weak.