Bad recording quality / GB-PVR app freezes

[sjbirk]

I recently had GB-PVR installed on my PC. After weeks of tweaking, I got GB-PVR to work to my liking: live tv did not stutter, live tv picture looked good, recordings resembled live tv exactly, etc. Since then, I had to rebuild my PC due to a HD crash.

I am using the latest GB-PVR build on a 3.0GHz/1GB ram/PVR-150/ATI RADEON 300SE and am having difficulties getting GB-PVR configured to resemble that of my previous (pre-"HD crash"). My 2 main problems are as follows:

(1):
My live tv looks great, but my recordings do not. I set my medium and high settings to that of my live tv settings (variable - 5500/9000). But still, my recordings look horrible. Under high motion, my picture becomes very boxy around the images in motion. When the motion halts, the picture jumps back to a crisp picture.

I'd like to emphasize here that my live tv quality is great. When I view my recordings in GB-PVR they look as described above. Additionally, when I view my recordings outside of GB-PVR (WMA) they look the same - as described above.

(2):
Every so often while watching live tv, my picture freezes. I try to exit back to the main menu or my tv guide, but then everything goes black. I then have to bring up my windows task manager and end the GB-PVR process, and restart my GB-PVR recording service because it is frozen recording as if I was still watching tv even after the GB-PVR process was killed.

Has anyone experienced either of these issues before?

Thanks in advance for assistance.

[sub]

Do recordings made with WinTV have this problem?

[sjbirk]

I have never used another recording software. But my previous recordings using GB-PVR and the same hardware (pre-rebuild) were a lot better quality.

[sub]

I think you should check recordings made with other software.

[sjbirk]

Well this is not to say the reason my records are horrible is because of GB-PVR, but more to find someone else who might have had the same issue in the past and how they worked it out.

When I get home from work today, I will test a recording with WinTV and report my results. I will also try to post screen captures of live tv versus a recording.

[sjbirk]

Found my problem - needed to install latest Hauppauge video decoder (Intervideo). My recordings look more like my Live TV now. This also seemed to fix my Live TV from freezing from time to time.

My problem now is when I attempt to view a recording. It plays for 2 seconds and then GB-PVR crashes and I get the Windows pompt asking if I want to send an error report. I can view the recordings (.mpg) in WMP without problem. Any ideas?

[rutters]

I have encountered a similar problem after installing MS KB899588 and upgrading to the latest GBPVR. All my recordings now display a length of 12 seconds when I play them, although actually the entire program has been recorded and will play to the end.

If however I try to skip through or fast forward a recording playback stops and I am returned to the GBPVR menu.

Recordings made prior to upgrading are fine.


Windows XP SP2 on 1 GHz Pentium III, PVR-350 using TVOut only