ati hdtv stuttering playback

[extendedram]

Hi,

I just got a ATI HDTV card for xmas. I am currently getting stuttering playback in both live and recorded HD. I have tried nvidia decoder, ati(cyberlink) decoder, snapstream decoder, cyberlink decoder, and intervideo decoder. The only decoder that seems to even work(with stuttering) is the cyberlink(the one without the ATI in front of it.). Playback of 480 works in ati dtv, but anything higher wont play in the dtv player.

I have a 2.6 p4, 512mb memory. xp, with sp2. ti4400 video card(wondering if this is the problem).

[cpmiv]

from the BTV 4 requirements page

Requirements for digital / HDTV

* Intel® Pentium®, AMD Athlon™ processor at 1.7 GHz or higher
* 512 MB Ram
* ATI Radeon 9550 or NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 or Higher
* 40 GB of available hard drive space (this will allow 5 hours of HD Recording)
* BDA Compliant ATSC Capture Card
* Windows XP Service Pack 2

http://www.snapstream.com/products/beyondtv/sysreq.asp

[extendedram]

thanks for the reply. Guess iam making a trip to frys electronics tomorrow. Now just have to come up with an exuse for the wife. :wink:

[cpmiv]

Anytime. I had hopes of watching the HDTV stuff as well but none of my links (except for the HTPC which is having issues) is up to the task. When i did have it working it looked fine on a 5700 (I think it's an ultra but I can't remember). If your going to buy new spend as much as you can get away with. I have the same wife / budgetary issues.

[loydc1]

I need to know if I should get a vdeo card for my MSI RS482M4-ILD sence it has on-board Graphic ? Also i have an ATI HD Wornder card I use BTV4 for HDTV then I have my cable box hooked to the analog side to vue even HDTV channels of the cable box. I would like to be able to record for now 2 showes at a time. For the analog side i must use ATI analog TV program. It works some time but not for long watching two show at time. Shoud i just invest in ATI’s THEATER 550 PRO w/16mb for recording off the cable box?
MSI RS482M4-ILD NEC 2500A 8x Dual Layer NEC 3550A 16x Segate 250gig hd 2 80gig Serial ATA drives 1gig dual channel memory AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+ Black Cooler Master Centurion 5 Aluminum ATX Mid Tower case OCZ ModStream 450W power supply.

[cpmiv]

To record two shows from cable you'll need two SDTV tuners and two STB's (cable boxes).

[noc_81]

loydc1: The video performance of the MSI's builtin gpu is comparable to a GF4MX, but is capable of DX9. As long as you don't game, it should be perfectly capable.

As long as you run BTV in overlay, the ti4400 video card should work.

[HomeyFour]

loydc1: You're not going to be very happy with the results of the built-in video with those specs.

BTV 4 works great on all 4 of my HTPC machines in SD and HD modes, using PVR-150/500 and Fusion5 HDTV, on computers ranging from a P4 1.2GHz all the way to P4 3 GHz without stuttering at all and with 0 issues with the SS.net guide updates.

[extendedram]

I am really confused. The HDTV wonder specs say card has to support directx9.0c. ti4400 only supports directx 8. BTV specs say video card >= 5200.

[noc_81]

I am really confused. The HDTV wonder specs say card has to support directx9.0c. ti4400 only supports directx 8. BTV specs say video card >= 5200.

the hdtv card would need a dx9 card for the ATI player. BTV should support the ti4400 as long as you use software rendering for the interface, and use overlay.

[mgools]

extendedram,

I have had two friends/coworkers with the same issue as you with the ATI HDTV card. They spent hours worth of troubleshooting with BTV4 beta then BTV4, and finally fixed the issue by taking the ATI card back to Fry's, and buying the Kworld ATSC-110 also from Fry's...their problems were solved.

I am an ATI fan, so hope you and them were not the norm.