Got my PVR running with GB-PVR! Slight isssues...

[Atomike]

I successfully tapes 2 episodes of the Simpsons last night - with EXCELLENT quality. It looks better than my cable feed if that's possible. Anyway, the cartoon looks great, but

1. Live action shows are still a little worse - fast moving heads and hands show some jerkiness.

2. Also, the "resume" function doesn't work. When I stop a show & restart, it just goes to the beginning. I have the "resume" box checked in the settings. I'm using the newest version (.12) of GB-PVR. Do I need a re-install? It worked for awhile...

3. My audio is also off by about half a second, I think - after a search of the forum I have a few things I can try to fix this tonight. (I know, for example, that I'm using a different codec for video and audio - that may be the problem).

Otherwise, I'm super duper impressed. I've also tried the BeyondTV trial this weekend, and I think that STINKS compared to GB-PVR.

So if you have ideas about my 3 issues, feel free to let me know. Thanks.

NF7-Sv.2 motherboard (SocketA) w/512 mb ram
XP-3000+ CPU
eVGA fx5200 (video out)
PVR-250 (video in) - latest drivers
Nvidia DVD decoder (trial for now)

[groover km]

This is just the obvious stuff so forgive me, but defragging the capture drive...? IIRC, does the PVR250 encode audio and video seperately in software - this may be contributing to your sync problem.

I've been playing with the Hauppauge Tweaker tool (http://www.shspvr.com) to adjust spatial and temporal handling to address blur issues and it seems to have an effect; can't remember if it works with 250 (I'm not at home at the moment) but it might be worth a look.

Hope this helps.

[reboot]

Make sure you select the Intervideo Non-CSS codec for video and audio playback in config. It seems to work best with gbpvr. You can also download an update for it from Hauppauge.
Jerkiness on playback is usually a fragged drive, or a very busy drive. Better to have a separate drive for storage/capture/playback.

[Atomike]

Good stuff - I'll try all of that tonight - and see if I can find a spare 10GB drive laying around for my OS, etc. I'll report back with results.