LiveTV Stutter and black recording

[djtaylor]

When running ANY other app with GBPVR, LiveTV stutters. I can run twice as many apps with the Hauppauge app with no stutter. When I try and record, I can't watch LiveTV at the same time. Similiarly, I can with the H app. I am not complaining. I hope that I can change some settings and make it go.

If you look at the priority, Hauppauge runs at a process base priority of above normal, gbpvr runs at normal.

If you change the priority of gbpvr then it too runs smoothly.

David.

[lingenfr]

Out of all the other stuff, that was the right answer. Thanks alot. I can't imagine why the developers would not either write gbpvr to run above normal or allow you to set it via the config. I have don't quite a bit of googling and kind find out how to change the priority permanently without buying a program. For now I created a batch file. That is rather disappointing as I would rather use the tray icon. Oh well. Thanks for the help.

[dvasco]

I have been using GBPVR for a week or so. It is pretty nifty, but the performance is much worse that the Hauppauge app. My setup is as follows

Uniwill 259IA3 Laptop
2.1Ghz Pentium-M
2GB RAM
60GB 7200 rpm HD
On board ATI Radeon 9600
Hauppauge WinTV PVR USB2
XP Pro latest
ATI Catalyst drivers latest

When running ANY other app with GBPVR, LiveTV stutters. I can run twice as many apps with the Hauppauge app with no stutter. When I try and record, I can't watch LiveTV at the same time. Similiarly, I can with the H app. I am not complaining. I hope that I can change some settings and make it go.

*** Probably somewhat solved. To save folks from having to go through the entire thread, try the following. Open task manager. If you don't already have it, add the Base Process Priority tab. Scroll down to gbpvr.exe. Right click on it and set process priority to above normal or high as you desire. My best solution so far is that I created a batch file in my gbpvr directory that includes the following line:

start /abovenormal gbpvr.exe

I am hoping to find a better way. Don't waste your time changing codecs.

This post was extremely helpful to me. I no longer have the pauses I once had before making the priority change. I still have other video problems though, like ghosting when trying to skip back and then ahead. Very weird.