(2020-10-10, 03:06 PM)WaltS Wrote: Sub, thanks for a better response.
I feel my response was appropriate and I assume it got you working. Sub having access to the code can always provide more information and you still wouldn't have a solution.
2020-10-10, 04:34 PM (This post was last modified: 2020-10-11, 12:57 PM by Graham.)
(2020-10-10, 03:06 PM)WaltS Wrote: ... I experience very choppy video and audio. I am using an inexpensive indoor antenna so that might be the problem, although I get a lot better reception when I hook the same antenna directly to my TV.
Typically, we expect the tuner in televisions to do a better job than the tuners in computer tuners.
NextPVR tries to capture stats from the tuner to report the quality of the received signal ... Record some shows and then post your logs telling us the name of any shows that are choppy on playback.
(2020-10-10, 03:06 PM)WaltS Wrote: Sub, thanks for a better response. My display adapter is Intel HD Graphics 3000. Resolution is 1366 x 768. I couldn't find DPI anywhere.
In Windows 10, right click -> display settings, and it's called "change the size of text, apps and other items". Is that set to 100%?
That resolution is pretty low though by modern standards - can you actually see the whole window, or is part of it off the screen?
Quote:I was able to find and edit config.xml and I downloaded the LAV decoders. So NextPVR works for me now but I experience very choppy video and audio. I am using an inexpensive indoor antenna so that might be the problem, although I get a lot better reception when I hook the same antenna directly to my TV. My video capture is old too, a Hauppauge WinTV-HVR-950. So I may be just out of luck trying to make this work with 5+ year old hardware. Are there any settings that I can try changing that might reduce the chop? Thanks
In theory that should be alright. There is lot of people running older hardware without issues like these. What CPU is in your machine?
Sub, yes the scale is set at 100%. The resolution I believe is the native resolution for my screen. My laptop is around 7 years old. I can see the entire settings window and I can move it around on the screen, but the window is not big enough to show all of its content. This is also evident with the media folders settings. The bottom edge of the window cuts through the add and remove buttons for picture folders. I'll try again to attach screen shots. The drag and drop on this forum page didn't work for me earlier. My CPU is an Intel i3-2367M CPU @ 1.40 GHz, quad core. When running NextPVR, task manager did not show it hogging the processor.
Let me do a little more testing but I think it will confirm what i've seen so far: when my antenna is hooked up to the TV, my reception is quite good, just the occasional pixellation. Keeping the antenna in the same position and watching the same channel, using video capture, NextPVR shows an extremely choppy video and stuttering audio. I estimate that only 1 or 2 seconds in each minute is the picture free of defects. The rest of the time there is distortion, often severe.
(2020-10-10, 03:06 PM)WaltS Wrote: ... I experience very choppy video and audio. I am using an inexpensive indoor antenna so that might be the problem, although I get a lot better reception when I hook the same antenna directly to my TV.
Typically, we expect the tuner in televisions to do a better job than the tuners in computer tuners.
NextPVR tries to capture stats from the tuner to report the quality of the received signal ... Record some shows and then post your logs telling us the name of any shows that are choppy on playback.
(2020-10-11, 12:41 PM)WaltS Wrote: Trying to attach screen shots. These are full-screen screen shots from my laptop
The forum does not accept attachments bigger than 2MB ... You might neeed to upload files to Dropbox or similar and post a link. Thanks.
(2020-10-10, 04:34 PM)Graham Wrote: The forum does not accept attachments bigger than 2MB ... You might neeed to upload files to Dropbox or similar and post a link. Thanks.
OK, first, see my screen shots a couple of posts back regarding the settngs window.
Second, I just did some more testing and I have to think my capture card is not up to snuff. On my TV, I was getting flawless reception. Using NextPVR, the reception was better than it was in earlier tests, but still heavily choppy audio and video. And I have no other capture app to compare it to, so the simplest conclusion is my capture card is not sensitive enough for the signal the antenna provides. I would say however, that NextPVR couldn't "recover" when I moved the antenna a little and moved it back. The video would freeze and I had to stop live TV and start it again. It wouldn't "fix itself" when the signal returned.
If I get another capture app and find that it works better, I will certainly let you know. Thanks everyone for your help.
(2020-10-11, 02:19 PM)WaltS Wrote: Second, I just did some more testing and I have to think my capture card is not up to snuff. On my TV, I was getting flawless reception. Using NextPVR, the reception was better than it was in earlier tests, but still heavily choppy audio and video. And I have no other capture app to compare it to, so the simplest conclusion is my capture card is not sensitive enough for the signal the antenna provides. I would say however, that NextPVR couldn't "recover" when I moved the antenna a little and moved it back. The video would freeze and I had to stop live TV and start it again. It wouldn't "fix itself" when the signal returned.
How was it in the WinTV software that came with the capture device?