2008-11-17, 02:35 AM
Hi guys,
Been lurking here for a while, gathering info. I finally got around to building my htpc (cobbled together from spare parts) and It's going well so far. There are just two things that I am having issues with, I was wondering if you guys knew any quick fixes.
The first problem is video jumping when watching live TV. No tearing, or artifacts. Just jumping video, kind of like a shaky camcorder. It seems kind of like system lag, but here is the weird thing. It only does it when I am watching live TV.
If I pause it and then hit play (effectively putting it in a buffer/cache mode), everything works fine and smooth. The really odd thing is, you would think that this would be more system intensive, since it is encoding, recording and playing back all at the same time. Any ideas?
**EDIT: Never mind on problem #2, solved the schedule problem (I hope....)**
In case it helps, here are my system specs:
Amd 2100+
Shuttle sn41g
1 gig of duel channel DDR
Hauppauge HVR-1600 (PCI)
Radeon X1600 pro (512 megs)
200 gigs of storage (80 and 120 gig hard drives)
I plan on upgrading to a the spare 3000+ and 2 gigs of ram, with 4 160 gig sata drives that I have sitting around, as soon as I find a socket 939 mobo somewhere.
Been lurking here for a while, gathering info. I finally got around to building my htpc (cobbled together from spare parts) and It's going well so far. There are just two things that I am having issues with, I was wondering if you guys knew any quick fixes.
The first problem is video jumping when watching live TV. No tearing, or artifacts. Just jumping video, kind of like a shaky camcorder. It seems kind of like system lag, but here is the weird thing. It only does it when I am watching live TV.
If I pause it and then hit play (effectively putting it in a buffer/cache mode), everything works fine and smooth. The really odd thing is, you would think that this would be more system intensive, since it is encoding, recording and playing back all at the same time. Any ideas?
**EDIT: Never mind on problem #2, solved the schedule problem (I hope....)**
In case it helps, here are my system specs:
Amd 2100+
Shuttle sn41g
1 gig of duel channel DDR
Hauppauge HVR-1600 (PCI)
Radeon X1600 pro (512 megs)
200 gigs of storage (80 and 120 gig hard drives)
I plan on upgrading to a the spare 3000+ and 2 gigs of ram, with 4 160 gig sata drives that I have sitting around, as soon as I find a socket 939 mobo somewhere.