Jerky/stuttering playback w/PVR-250

[Dustin Mustangs]

Ok, I have tried everything I can think of and that I can find in this forum after searching it for the last couple of days and have had no luck getting this to stop.  

Here is my setup:.

All products bought and used in the US, ~70 channel cable service (no box required), Dell P4, fresh XP home install w/SP2 and firewall, 2.53ghz, 512mb, 80gig master, 200 gig slave (for gbpvr recordings), Linksys 'b' home network (CPU is wireless, MVP is at router, 128 bit WEP), Media MVP (auto-start server), PVR-250, gbpvr (w/ weather, solitare, my albums and my pictures plugins)...

Here are the symptoms:

On my cpu, WinTV and GBPVR work fine initially so I go and try it on the MVP.  Both live tv and recordings stutter both audibly and visually at random intervals and intensities, everything else seems to work fine except for the screen being off center which I imagine is not related and is next on my "to fix" list.  Audio is also slightly distorted imediatly surrounding the stutters.  Now, I'll go back and try it again on my pc and the now both winTV and GBPVR are stuttering also but only the video, audio comes out fine which makes it a little harder to notice the whole thing is going on but it is.  Reboot and the whole process starts over.

Here's what I've tried:

Net1.1 framework (obviously), GBPVR application off main page, latest Haup apps and drivers as downloaded off their site (no betas, no MVP apps), put pagefile on private partition on slave (I would like the LiveTV buffer and my recordings here on a seperate partition although I have tried moving them around), latest chipset drivers, intel application accelerator, ran PC pitstop evaluation with all checkered flags (http://www.pcpitstop.com).  I have also tried many, but obviously not all of the  combinations of video/audio decoders and renderers.  Doing this seems to alter how this is happening, but not stop it. I also tried putting my performance settings for background services and for system cache which had no effect so I switched it back.  I tried to switch my wireless card to full-duplex which wasn't available for some reason so it's on auto, see here:



I really am out of ideas.  Someone please help, I REALLY want to get this great program working for me instead of me working for it...

[Dustin Mustangs]

Also, FYI sub, I registered yesterday and got no email. I'm really not worried about it, just figured maybe you should know.

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I've never really fiddled with wireless, so am no expert on the subject, but I thought I'd seen many posts on the subject in the past saying 802.11b provides insufficient bandwidth for video applications. I've seen several people post on shspvr.com saying you'd need 802.11g to make your MVP wireless.

[Dustin Mustangs]

Looks like that was the case. I ran a cat5 and it works perfect now!

Thanks for the help and for the great software!!