Sapphire Theatrix 550 Live video freezes

[jeweladdict]

Awesome piece of software you guys have here... esp cause the bpackaged one was utter crap :X. I did a search for this but didn't seem to find any other people having this problem. I just installed my tuner card the other night, updated to the newest theatrix drivers, and installed gbpvr. The problem is when I watch live tv, sound comes through fine, but video tends to freeze every 5 secs for half a sec...

System specs:
WinXP sp2
Athlon64 3000
bfg 6600gt
1gig ram
plenty of HDD

I've not tried recording eyt... hopefully that doesnt skip either =/

Also, I have an old ATI remote wonder, and the remote from the theatrix package, but neither seem to work with gbpvr... are there any workarounds?


tia
henry

[sub]

You not running something in the background that does something every 5 seconds?

If you disable live preview mode, does the freeze go away?

[kadi500]

The problem is when I watch live tv, sound comes through fine, but video tends to freeze every 5 secs for half a sec...

Uninstall the other tv-tuner software you may have, also un-install any codec packs and see what happens. I've had the same problems, but in my case - uninstalling MS Media Player 10 helped.

You may also try yo change settings in MISC tab of the Configuration Tool.

[sub]

Also you could try setting the deinterlacing setting to 'encoder-passthrough'. This does cause problems for some users, but when it does work, it improves the smoothness of Live TV.