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[XPS420]Recording or watching TV with Vista Media Center
Hi all,
I just received my XPS 2 days ago. It's a great system, very fast indeed and with 8 Gigs of RAM its even better :D Anyway, I also ordered a TV card, which is indeed built-in. It is the Hauppage WinTV-HVR-1250 (or 1200 :P). But I have some issues with this card.
I reinstalled Windows Vista, to replace it with a 64bit version of the OS. I also set-up Media Center in Vista. It picks the tv-signal up and the EPG too, which is a nice feature.
But the problems begin their. When I want to watch live TV or record it, the image gets choppy. Sound and video also seems it is out of sync and it all looks like it is fast-forward mode. Now, watching TV sometimes does work very well, but recording it is a disaster!
I tried to record one show, which is 1,5hr long, and it only recorded 59 seconds and 10 minutes :S. While I still 500+GB free on my harddrive! Also the image that was recorded was choppy and out of sync!!!
This is very annoying, because I really want to watch tv on this thing!
Specs:
- Core 2 Quad Q6600 @ 2.4Ghz
- 8GB DDR2 RAM
- Geforce 8800GT - 512MB
- 2x320GB in RAID0
- Hauppage 1200/1250 TV card
What I've tried:
- Installing an soft encoder for Media Center
- BIOS update
- Installing all Windows updates
- Driver update
BTW: When I watching/recording TV the system isn't overloaded at all! The CPU and RAM are only at 20 - 25 % of their full load and the HDD is searching a bit, but not very much.
So anyone got any clues what is going on?
I just received my XPS 2 days ago. It's a great system, very fast indeed and with 8 Gigs of RAM its even better :D Anyway, I also ordered a TV card, which is indeed built-in. It is the Hauppage WinTV-HVR-1250 (or 1200 :P). But I have some issues with this card.
I reinstalled Windows Vista, to replace it with a 64bit version of the OS. I also set-up Media Center in Vista. It picks the tv-signal up and the EPG too, which is a nice feature.
But the problems begin their. When I want to watch live TV or record it, the image gets choppy. Sound and video also seems it is out of sync and it all looks like it is fast-forward mode. Now, watching TV sometimes does work very well, but recording it is a disaster!
I tried to record one show, which is 1,5hr long, and it only recorded 59 seconds and 10 minutes :S. While I still 500+GB free on my harddrive! Also the image that was recorded was choppy and out of sync!!!
This is very annoying, because I really want to watch tv on this thing!
Specs:
- Core 2 Quad Q6600 @ 2.4Ghz
- 8GB DDR2 RAM
- Geforce 8800GT - 512MB
- 2x320GB in RAID0
- Hauppage 1200/1250 TV card
What I've tried:
- Installing an soft encoder for Media Center
- BIOS update
- Installing all Windows updates
- Driver update
BTW: When I watching/recording TV the system isn't overloaded at all! The CPU and RAM are only at 20 - 25 % of their full load and the HDD is searching a bit, but not very much.
So anyone got any clues what is going on?
HaloBox
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January 20th, 2008 02:00
wynand32
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January 20th, 2008 03:00
alex3305
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January 20th, 2008 09:00
alex3305
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January 20th, 2008 16:00
someone suggested this: http://www.hauppauge.com/pages/support/support_mce.html to be downloaded, which is an universal driver for Hauppage tv cards for Media Center.
For now it is working :D
alex3305
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January 21st, 2008 13:00
EDIT: After a complete driver removal, a couple of reboots, it appears to work again :S...
Message Edited by alex3305 on 01-21-2008 05:02 PM
HaloBox
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January 21st, 2008 14:00