Jerky TV cards..... What an arse this is I've bought a PCI Hauppage winTV DVB-T reciever, to make the most of the aerial that's in my new room But, despite reporting excellent signal, the frame rate is appalling - even the radio reciever is pretty unusuable. I don't know what's going on, the PC's an Athlon 3200 with a gig of ram, and a nVidia 6600GT card, and CPU usage is about 30% when it's recieveing, so I don't think the problems there.... Some codecs are better than others, but even with the Nvidia Purevideo ones it's not smooth. I've tried playing with the overlay, and basically every combination of settings there is, and it still won't work About the only thing left I can think of is that the card itself is recieveing interference from the graphics card fan (which is a Zalman monster), but before I try moving it, I wanted to know if anyone has any ideas..... Thanks a lot guys
Alright mate? Hauppage cards have decent drivers available for the cards themselves, post the exact model I'll get you a link that should sort it out for ya! Pez
Nope, all it should need (or so I thought) was an aerial. The bloody freeview box next door (on the same aerial) works fine Pez: Cheers fella, it's a winTV Nova-T 90002 - I thought I had the most recent drivers though Hauppage's TV software is without doubt the worst software I've ever used, so I switched to media portal, but is has exactly the same problems.
Right, we're making progress here now. BBC channels can tune and look pretty good But it can't autodetect ITV or 4, and none of the other channels will play properly. This makes me think that it must be something to do with the reception, which is strange given that the freeview box nextdoor works OK. How do you manually tune these thigns in? I've been trying to find out, the nearest transmitters are fenham and pontop pike, but I can't seem to see how you're meant to get enough individual channel data to manually tune in ITV or something Oh yeah, I've moved the card now, and SATA is disabled in the BIOS - but if the problem was there it wouldn't be able to show BBC
Arse The whole case (Antec Sonata) is set up to do just that And I put a variable speed fan on the CPU as well I'll try a signal booster, and take it back to wherever I get it from if it doesn't work - otherwise - well, the beeb's got the best channels anyway Interestingly, it can get BBC1 but not Radio 1. :doh: Oh yeah, there's a wireless router sitting by it as well, and just next door is the kitchen......complete with microwave!
You can try these: http://www.hauppauge.co.uk/downloads/hcw13nova-t.exe And also use this update as well: http://hauppauge.lightpath.net/software/wintv2000/wintv2k_dvb_50_22356.exe That should help, post and let us know!
Thanks fella - but had those ones installed already I'm afraid! Cheers though, I can watch BBC channels fine at the moment, and I'm going to see if the signal booster will do the trick
