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<blockquote data-quote="bfj" data-source="post: 102914" data-attributes="member: 28510">Hi guys,First of all my system is:AMD Athlon 1300+1 Gig Mem300 gig HDGeforce Ti4600Running Windows XP ProI bought myself a Pinnacle PCTV Dual DVB-T card and MP recognised it fine and I can view all the channels.I'm in the UK and when I watch BBC1 or or BBC2 everything is ok, good picture. But channels such as Channel 5 or some of the lesser digital channels seem to stutter like crazy almost to the point of freezing.It's not MP as this also happens with the software it came with. In fact MP seems to handle the TV better than the Pinnacle software.I'd just like some advice on what might be the problem. May be a faster CPU would help?On my standalone digital box I have max signal strengh but when MP is scanning the channels it only seems to fill about 10 of the little progress bar boxes.I heard that digital channels come down at different compressions and that some channels take more CPU power to decode?Also MP seems to take awhile (10 mins) to scan all the channels.Maybe the TV card is getting interference?It's fairly near to the gfx card fan so could that have something to do with it ?I'm willing to upgrade the machine and do whatever it takes but it would help if I knew for sure what might be happening. I'm not exactly sure what specs are minimum for dual digital tv so any experience you guys can give would be great.Thanks,BFG</blockquote>

[QUOTE="bfj, post: 102914, member: 28510"] Hi guys, First of all my system is: AMD Athlon 1300+ 1 Gig Mem 300 gig HD Geforce Ti4600 Running Windows XP Pro I bought myself a Pinnacle PCTV Dual DVB-T card and MP recognised it fine and I can view all the channels. I'm in the UK and when I watch BBC1 or or BBC2 everything is ok, good picture. But channels such as Channel 5 or some of the lesser digital channels seem to stutter like crazy almost to the point of freezing. It's not MP as this also happens with the software it came with. In fact MP seems to handle the TV better than the Pinnacle software. I'd just like some advice on what might be the problem. May be a faster CPU would help? On my standalone digital box I have max signal strengh but when MP is scanning the channels it only seems to fill about 10 of the little progress bar boxes. I heard that digital channels come down at different compressions and that some channels take more CPU power to decode? Also MP seems to take awhile (10 mins) to scan all the channels. Maybe the TV card is getting interference? It's fairly near to the gfx card fan so could that have something to do with it ? I'm willing to upgrade the machine and do whatever it takes but it would help if I knew for sure what might be happening. I'm not exactly sure what specs are minimum for dual digital tv so any experience you guys can give would be great. Thanks, BFG [/QUOTE]

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