2005-12-14, 05:17 PM
My setup:
Scientific Atlanta Explorer 2000 STB
S-video output from STB to Hauppauge PVR-150 card. Use Hauppauge 45 button remote and IR Blaster to change channels on STB.
Home-built Athlon 3000+ system with 1 Gig memory, ASUS A8V Deluxe Mboard, ATI 9800 Pro video card, two 200 Gig ATA-100 Seagate hard drives
What works:
Hauppauge Win TV2000 â video and audio are good to excellent. MPEG-2 recordings look good to excellent.
Beyond TV Trial Version â video and audio are good to excellent. MPEG-2 recordings look good to excellent.
Problems with GBPVR â build 09516:
1. Video looks fuzzy. Scrolling ticker on CNBC fuzzy and barely legible. Audio is OK.
If Hauppauge and Beyond TV get a score of 100 on video quality, then GBPVR gets 75. However, stationary text on screen in GBPVR looks sharp and appears almost equivalent to Hauppauge and Beyond TV.
2. Watching prior recordings does not work. Video looks like extreme slow motion, with a frame change once every 2 to 3 seconds or so. The recorded file itself is OK, and looks normal when viewed with Windows Media Player, or WinDVD. The quality of the file may be somewhat lower than those created by Hauppauge or Beyond TV â using same settings. However, more testing is required to be sure.
The recorded video is on a drive separate from the Windows system drive, but the drive configuration should not be a problem since both Hauppauge and Beyond TV function OK.
Any thoughts on the above two problems?
GBPVR is an excellent program, and fixing the above problems would go a long way to making it outstanding.
Thanks in advance for any help.
Donald
P.S. How do you advance more than one channel at a time in the GBPVR Program Guide, using the Hauppauge 45 button remote? I havenât found the magic button yet.
Scientific Atlanta Explorer 2000 STB
S-video output from STB to Hauppauge PVR-150 card. Use Hauppauge 45 button remote and IR Blaster to change channels on STB.
Home-built Athlon 3000+ system with 1 Gig memory, ASUS A8V Deluxe Mboard, ATI 9800 Pro video card, two 200 Gig ATA-100 Seagate hard drives
What works:
Hauppauge Win TV2000 â video and audio are good to excellent. MPEG-2 recordings look good to excellent.
Beyond TV Trial Version â video and audio are good to excellent. MPEG-2 recordings look good to excellent.
Problems with GBPVR â build 09516:
1. Video looks fuzzy. Scrolling ticker on CNBC fuzzy and barely legible. Audio is OK.
If Hauppauge and Beyond TV get a score of 100 on video quality, then GBPVR gets 75. However, stationary text on screen in GBPVR looks sharp and appears almost equivalent to Hauppauge and Beyond TV.
2. Watching prior recordings does not work. Video looks like extreme slow motion, with a frame change once every 2 to 3 seconds or so. The recorded file itself is OK, and looks normal when viewed with Windows Media Player, or WinDVD. The quality of the file may be somewhat lower than those created by Hauppauge or Beyond TV â using same settings. However, more testing is required to be sure.
The recorded video is on a drive separate from the Windows system drive, but the drive configuration should not be a problem since both Hauppauge and Beyond TV function OK.
Any thoughts on the above two problems?
GBPVR is an excellent program, and fixing the above problems would go a long way to making it outstanding.
Thanks in advance for any help.
Donald
P.S. How do you advance more than one channel at a time in the GBPVR Program Guide, using the Hauppauge 45 button remote? I havenât found the magic button yet.