Jittery Playback

[chemie]

Still recovering from a forced move from WinXP to Win7 install.

When I play back a recorded video in Windows media Player quality is good and smooth.

Playback in NPVR is low quality (which wife can almost live with) but jittery (which she cant). I honestly can't remember many settings from old install install (although I backed them up if that will help). I know I played a bunch with codecs going back to GBPVR times.

So I am running VMR9 which is better than EVR but VMR9 does not have as good aspect ratio on wide screen (still leave black on all four sides vs EVR which allows me to fill horizontal properly and duplicates what I see in windows media play)). I am using Microsoft DVD video renderer. FFDshow does not seem to display (blank video).

Thoughts? Thanks for the help.

[sub]

It'll come down to the decoders you're using. You may need to install other decoders if the ones available on your machine are not performing well.

For video renderer, I'd stick with EVR in Win7.

FFDshow probably needed you to enable MPEG2 support in it's setting.

[chemie]

OK. I enabled MPEG2 for FFDshow but still no joy. FFDshow help suggests not to use for MPEG-2 but rather Windows movie player codec. How do I select those? Or is this the Microsoft DVD one I tried? I take it Hauppage WinTV (version 7) does not come with any? (I would have been using version 3 or something before; should I switch to an earlier version as Haupp site might be telling me version 6 vs 7 for my PVR-150?) I can play back inside Haupp WINTV no problem too.

Which other is good source for decoder?

(PS SUB, I know it has been said before but your help is very much appreciated)

[sub]

I don't really have any decoder recommendations for you. I'm sure someone will be along to recommend something.

Personally I use a MainConcept decoder for MPEG2, and the Microsoft DTV DVD decoder for H.264.

[stustunz]

refresh rate needs to be 60hz for america also

[chemie]

I don't really have any decoder recommendations for you. I'm sure someone will be along to recommend something.

Personally I use a MainConcept decoder for MPEG2, and the Microsoft DTV DVD decoder for H.264.

Could I post a config file from old install to see what I was using before? Which one?

[chemie]

refresh rate needs to be 60hz for america also

Where do I set that on FFDshow?

[stustunz]

Where do I set that on FFDshow?

its in your video card settings(windows not npvr)

[chemie]

So I removed WINTV7 and installed WINTV6 (which seemed to be the better choice for PVR-150). This at least gave me a Hauppahe MPEG-2 decoder (which I assume was what was running WinTV playback which worked)

However, now in NPVR under devices, it shows the card, but "present"=no and I do not have any other entry for the card. The name is right...just it no longer sees it. I am reluctant to delete as I would think the "new" driver/card should show too?

[mvallevand]

You should reinstall WinTV 7 to get SoftPVR back.

Martin