Still have some stutter... ideas?

[BigMoose]

It's one monster of a thread all right!! Different people have found different versions of the driver work best for them, so be prepared for a bit of work and luck!! Hope you get somewhere!

I'm still not there with my setup either. SD & HD Live TV is almost perfect, just the odd minor stutter. However HD Live can go a bit mad, but a restart of pvrx2.exe seems to cure that. After putting lots of effort into fixing DVD playback I've managed to break SD recording playback - very stuttery (used not to be). So that's tonights task, fix recording playback without breaking live TV! Shouldn't be this hard!!

[TornadoTJ]

Well, my SD wasn't stuttery on my old system. Go figure.

My old system wouldn't do live TV. It had horrible dropouts (bigtime stutter). This system seems to be pretty dang good!

[BigMoose]

It's really frustrating. LiveTV works brilliantly under pvrx2 and VMR9 Custom (HD goes weird/corrupt blocks with FSE). However SD playback is unwatchable - even though the files produced can be played perfectly by PowerDVD. Under gbpvr and overlay, I cant watch live tv as it bitches about a memory problem (and channel change is too annoyingly slow in the days when it did work) but it can play my SD recordings perfectly fine! So I can either watch recordings or watch live TV but not both... I'm using the Cyberlink decoders and cannot for the life of me see any options in gbpvr config that's different to PowerDVD (there aren't as many options in gbpvr config for the video codec). It's driving me insane, since I know the machine is capable of everything, I just cant get it all configured in a usable way! Hope you've had more luck than me!

[BigMoose]

On the off chance anyone else is having SD playback problems I've solved mine. It turned out to be the mux - the Cyberlink one was producing some bizarre results. Changed to the ATI one and all is fine.

[stustunz]

power dvd is a great program
but for the life of me i have never been able to use cyberlink decoders or muxes with gbpvr
so your best bet is to try some different decoders/mux that are not cyberlink

i have ended up using dvrms for my mux (ati and cyberlink gave me big jumps)
and nvidia pure video for playback
although mine is all SD

try this decoder
http://www.free-codecs.com/download/MPV_Decoder.htm
to register read the instructions on the link page

[TornadoTJ]

I've been wanting to dig into trying different muxes, I'm using the MS Mux.

[TornadoTJ]

So I figured out I have a 2400XT instead of a 2600XT, could this be part of my problem?

I also changed my resolution to 720x1280 and this did not make any difference at all.

I"m going to try some different Mux and decoders now.

[TornadoTJ]

Regarding Muxes, I have a Microsoft Mux, a TS Mux (don't know what that is) and an ATI Mux. The MS Mux seems to work best. ATI mux looks good for about 2 seconds, then the recording gets very very jerky in both audio and video. TS Mux doesn't work, when I try to play back the recording, it just goes back to the menu.

I did just switch to the ATI MPEG Video decoder, AC3Filter for audio decoder, DirectSound Realtek HD Audio audio renderer, and switched from VMR9 FSE to EVR, and right now playback appears that it may be stutter-free.

MVP decoder is jittery.

This is still an XP SP2 box.

[TornadoTJ]

Well, with EVR the video plays perfectly for a minute or so, then it begins to hang, long pauses. This may be a problem with the file, though. Going to record another HD show to see what happens.

I am noticing now that these DVR-MS files won't play back in WMP.

VLC will play the files, but with the jitter I had before, with the MVP decoder.