2006-02-22, 05:37 AM
I've had a working GBPVR PVR-250 setup working for a while now using external ATSC tuners as my source. Decided to take the plunge an try an HDTV capture card. Heard all the horror stories with respect to the DVICO cards and thought I would try the VBOX DTA-150 since it comes with BDA drivers, even though there are reports of successful GBPVR/DVICO Fusion 5 lite rigs.
Anyhow, the DTA-150 did not work out. Short story:
1) Win2K No native DVR-MS support, horrible stuttering, unusable. :mad:
2) WinXP SP2 DX9C: Generally worked, but the classic loss of deinterlacing after REW/FF (stuttering) :mad:
3) WinXP SP2 DX9B rollback: Just about any access to the DTA-150 caused GBPVR to crash or the PC to lock up. Apparently the DTA-150 needs DX9C.:mad:
With my hardware, I have to rollback to DX9B to prevent the playback stuttering problem while playing mpegs.
In the middle of all this, Tweeter put the Sony 500GB HD DVR on sale for a price I couldn't refuse. Now I am using GBPVR to stream the DVR output to MVPs on secondary TVs.
I did try the card with the SAGETV demo, and it appeared to work, but frankly I did not use it longer than the time it took to make sure the hardware was installed correctly. The SAGETV demo also failed if I rolled back to DX9B.
Based on threads in this forum, tried several MPEG splitters with no luck. The DTA-150 drivers installed without issue. They have not updated the DTA-150 drivers in ages and their is no Linux support, so I returned the DTA-150 while I still could.
I hope this helps somebody.
-Mike
Anyhow, the DTA-150 did not work out. Short story:
1) Win2K No native DVR-MS support, horrible stuttering, unusable. :mad:
2) WinXP SP2 DX9C: Generally worked, but the classic loss of deinterlacing after REW/FF (stuttering) :mad:
3) WinXP SP2 DX9B rollback: Just about any access to the DTA-150 caused GBPVR to crash or the PC to lock up. Apparently the DTA-150 needs DX9C.:mad:
With my hardware, I have to rollback to DX9B to prevent the playback stuttering problem while playing mpegs.
In the middle of all this, Tweeter put the Sony 500GB HD DVR on sale for a price I couldn't refuse. Now I am using GBPVR to stream the DVR output to MVPs on secondary TVs.
I did try the card with the SAGETV demo, and it appeared to work, but frankly I did not use it longer than the time it took to make sure the hardware was installed correctly. The SAGETV demo also failed if I rolled back to DX9B.
Based on threads in this forum, tried several MPEG splitters with no luck. The DTA-150 drivers installed without issue. They have not updated the DTA-150 drivers in ages and their is no Linux support, so I returned the DTA-150 while I still could.
I hope this helps somebody.
-Mike
