2005-05-20, 06:34 PM
Hi everyone - I'm a brand new user and am enjoying the product; working great out of the box. Trying to be a good parent, I like to limit TV usage for the kids and it's really nice to be able to easily pull up a reading rainbow, or some other quality recording when they do get some TV time...
I'm a little confused about the choice of decoder. Of the free options available, why wouldn't Happangue just give me the best? Or is the decoder based on your TV card? It seems different chocies work better for different people, but I'm not sure why - or how - to find the best on for me. I've seem lots of links to decosers while reading this forum, but not sure which of the dozens of options is right for me. From a technical standpoint, I'm not very comfortable loading and unloading lots of decoder code.
Reason I'm interested: Playback quality of a past recording or even a recording that is already part way recording if pretty good. However, I can't watch live TV without freezes of the picture every other second. I literally get more frozen/paused TV than motion. So far I'm happy enough with the recorded stuff, but watching live TV might be nice to have. I think a better matched decoder might help me.
My specs: 2.0 celeron with XP pro, about 512 memory w/ 7200 rmpm ata drive. I also use a Soyo Motorboard with ATI video integrated into the motherboard - maybe that wasn't such a good idea, i don't know - Actrually - seeing as Soyo never delivered my rebates, I know it wasn't a good idea. But that's what I have... I have a single hard dirve, video partition already formatted in 64 blocks, I think I have xp pretty well tweaked for speed. I do have virus scan turned on and my version doesn't allow me to not scan a particular drive partition.
Thanks friends.
I'm a little confused about the choice of decoder. Of the free options available, why wouldn't Happangue just give me the best? Or is the decoder based on your TV card? It seems different chocies work better for different people, but I'm not sure why - or how - to find the best on for me. I've seem lots of links to decosers while reading this forum, but not sure which of the dozens of options is right for me. From a technical standpoint, I'm not very comfortable loading and unloading lots of decoder code.
Reason I'm interested: Playback quality of a past recording or even a recording that is already part way recording if pretty good. However, I can't watch live TV without freezes of the picture every other second. I literally get more frozen/paused TV than motion. So far I'm happy enough with the recorded stuff, but watching live TV might be nice to have. I think a better matched decoder might help me.
My specs: 2.0 celeron with XP pro, about 512 memory w/ 7200 rmpm ata drive. I also use a Soyo Motorboard with ATI video integrated into the motherboard - maybe that wasn't such a good idea, i don't know - Actrually - seeing as Soyo never delivered my rebates, I know it wasn't a good idea. But that's what I have... I have a single hard dirve, video partition already formatted in 64 blocks, I think I have xp pretty well tweaked for speed. I do have virus scan turned on and my version doesn't allow me to not scan a particular drive partition.
Thanks friends.