PVR-350 still freezes during playback

[jarodl]

I have installed the latest Hauppauge Drivers (22301) after removing the old ones. I am currently running 0.90.10 of GB-PVR (after uninstalling an older version). I have a Pentium IV 2.8 GHz with 512 Mb RAM and an Hauppauge PVR-350.

During playback of recordings, GB-PVR still freezes very often. It always causes anything that is currently recording to fail. I always have to restart the recording service. It is almost always after pressing the skip or replay buttons that it freezes. I have read some posts that it is related to the OSD. I have tried checking the box "Minimal OSD during playback" in the config utility, but it didn't seem to fix anything. I have also heard that changing slots in the PC could help. I haven't tried that one yet. Has anyone come across a good solution yet?

Thanks,

jarodl

[capone]

Try version 0.9111

[isgdre]

Have the same problem on the same card.

even on the newest version.

Have worked out so far that it's mostly happens when new background recordings start/stop and the CPU is busy with other things.

I moved GB-PVR to another (slower but) dedicated cpu and now the problem is much more perdictable.

[sub]

The drivers just arn't reliable. Save yourself the grief - switch to using software decoding.

[jarodl]

The drivers just arn't reliable. Save yourself the grief - switch to using software decoding.

Yeh, I tried that. The quality is brutal, though. I just chose to use the system default decoder (I don't know which one that is, though). Does anyone know which is the best software decoder to use?