2006-03-07, 02:59 PM
I have been fooling around with GBPVR/PVR-150 setup for about three weeks and cannot get any playback consistency with my recordings. This not a picture quality issue. My best efforts will only play in WMP, and when forwarding, reversing or pausing the file requires about a 25 second delay before it will continue playing. Video quality is acceptable, sound is sometimes stuttery, but acceptable. This is my best effort, most videos will only play if you start the video and do not attempt to pause, forward or reverse the video. Any attempt to utilize any of these functions results in the video freezing up, simply have to close the player and start over, cannot pause, skip commercials or reverse. Most times, these same videos will play continuosly for the first 10-15 minutes and then just pause themselves and never resume, even though the player status say that it is playing. Other videos will show a timeline of about 25 seconds, status bar will go to the end immediately, though video will continue to play for entire program, just cannot puase or manipulate direction, have to let play and endure commercials. I have tried installing the time stamp software update as well as the new registry settings and this seems to have had no effect, maybe even worse. When playing video through WMP, system resources are being used at about 70-85%, WMP only uses about 15% when playing any other content (Captured DV video, DVD content etc). My system is not super state of the art, but based on what I have read here, should be more than powerful enough. Windows XP home sp2, 2.4ghz P4, 768mhz 2700 ram, ATI 9200 128m video card, 160g 7200rpm hd. I am desperate to get this resolved, I keep recording my shows using the PVR, but I record everything on VHS as well because of the unreliability of the pvr. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated, at this point, I am almost ready to scrap the whole project and try something else.
