I just re-imaged my Vista machine. I have a similar setup with a HVR-2250 and a 780G and a 4850e CPU using a Gigabyte motherboard.
I'm getting most of the time a smooth picture and then all of a sudden I get a crappy sometimes even frozen picture. I had things working better before the re-imaging. I think its related to the demux. It may also be related to the HVR-2250 driver. I'm trying the January 09 beta, before I was using the production 4.7 drivers. Its only been a few days since re-imaging, and I haven't gotten everything sorted out.
One thing I do agree with. As long as the picture looks good. Don't worry about your CPU usage unless you are overheating or generating too much fan noise.
I got best results using an ATI demux and an ATI mpeg2 decoder getting similar cpu usage that you described. Other decoders gave me higher CPU usage.
Somehow through the re-imaging I seemed to have lost my ATI mpeg2 decoder. Does anyone have a pointer to where to find one?
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I just figured it out reading another thread. You need to add ,ATI MPEG Video Decoder, (including the commas) to the list <SupportedDecoders> in config.xml.
I would keep playing with various muxes and decoders. You will find a pair that looks good to you. I'm trying an older cyberlink mux MpgMux(5.0.0.813).ax right now. It gives me a fabulous picture with the ATI MPEG decoder. The question is it stable during long recordings. That takes time to decide.
I also always get best results with VRM9 Exclusive. I'm surprised you do not think that is the best.
I'm getting most of the time a smooth picture and then all of a sudden I get a crappy sometimes even frozen picture. I had things working better before the re-imaging. I think its related to the demux. It may also be related to the HVR-2250 driver. I'm trying the January 09 beta, before I was using the production 4.7 drivers. Its only been a few days since re-imaging, and I haven't gotten everything sorted out.
One thing I do agree with. As long as the picture looks good. Don't worry about your CPU usage unless you are overheating or generating too much fan noise.
I got best results using an ATI demux and an ATI mpeg2 decoder getting similar cpu usage that you described. Other decoders gave me higher CPU usage.
Somehow through the re-imaging I seemed to have lost my ATI mpeg2 decoder. Does anyone have a pointer to where to find one?
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I just figured it out reading another thread. You need to add ,ATI MPEG Video Decoder, (including the commas) to the list <SupportedDecoders> in config.xml.
I would keep playing with various muxes and decoders. You will find a pair that looks good to you. I'm trying an older cyberlink mux MpgMux(5.0.0.813).ax right now. It gives me a fabulous picture with the ATI MPEG decoder. The question is it stable during long recordings. That takes time to decide.
I also always get best results with VRM9 Exclusive. I'm surprised you do not think that is the best.