Poor performance with MVP

[Azimuth]

Am I expecting too much or is it uncharacteristic for the menu navigation to be dog slow via MVP?
It takes at least a second (maybe closer to two or three) between pressing a button on the remote and actually seing the result.
also, live playback is extremely stuttery and filled with artifacts. Recording and recorded playback is fine.
For testing I am using a PIII 800mhz machine with onboard video and 512MB Ram as the GBPVR server.
Using the default Dongle.... I am actually unable to find anywhere to download other dongles to test with.
Capture card is a Hauppauge PVR150 and I am using composite inputs from a dish STB.

[HtV]

For a pentium3 800 it sounds pretty normal. sub recommends a p3 1 ghz as the minimum for a server only, so for a mvp you should count some extra.

[sub]

Sorry but thats way too slow for an MVP server. The faster your server the faster your MVP will respond. I'd recommend need a 2GHz or faster machine for a decent performance in the MVP menus.

Different dongles arent really going perform much different.

[4zm4r3d02]

I get pretty good MVP performance, menu wise, using an AMD 1.33Ghz Athlon. I can't watch AVI files transcoded on-the-fly, I have to convert them to MPEG first.

Make sure you apply the registry file located at http://hauppauge.lightpath.net/software/...zation.reg

There's also some info in this thread http://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.php...+tcp+tweak

The latest Hauppauge software for the mvp can be found at ftp://ftp.hauppauge.com/Support/MediaMVP/Alpha

Download the zip file, open it, and extract the DONGLE.BIN file to a temporary folder. Rename it to something like 3.3.24265bDONGLE.BIN, then put it in your \Program Files\devnz\gbpvr\Dongle folder.

[Azimuth]

Thank You for the information. I just moved GBPVR and the tuner card to an old Dual AMD MP2000 server I had sitting in the closet... the MediaMVP runs sooooo much better. I had no idea how much it relied on the server to process mpeg decoding and menu navigation.

[jksmurf]

I get pretty good MVP performance, menu wise, using an AMD 1.33Ghz Athlon. I can't watch AVI files transcoded on-the-fly, I have to convert them to MPEG first.

I'm like 4zm4r3d02. PIII 1.2MHz Tualatin. 512MB Ram. MVP works fine on that, not blazingly fast, but more than acceptable.

k.