[wgf_bean]

I’ve just purchased and installed an "ATI TV Wonder 650". My CPU is an AMD 2800+. The video card uses an "NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT", which comes with hardware MPEG-2 decoding.

I’m new to Beyond TV but from reading on the forum I have a common problem that others have had: frame skipping. I found this link:
http://www.snapstream.com/community/Articles/decoders/

This 4 year old post has this listed combination:

System:AMD 1700+
Encoder:PVR250
Decoder:nvDVD
Video Card:nVidia GeForce 4 MX440
Quality Profile:DVD High-Res
CPU Usage:15%

With my hardware the CPU Usage is more like 55-70%. It never peaks to 100%, but I still get frame skipping. Audio is fine. I have found no setting for quality profile. I’m sure BTV is different than it was when the older post was done.

I have a faster CPU, have hardware encode and decode, have the latest drives for both, yet my performance is much worse. My signal strength is fine. I would appreciate any tips to fix the frame skipping.