Help- Jerky playback

[michaelgallyot]

I have tried all the steps listed in the knowledge base and still have jerky playback.
If any one has had problems with jerky playback and has the solution-please help.

AMD athlon 64 3200
Nvidia 6600 gt
Hauppage pvr 150 mce
Delta 410

[HomeyFour]

Originally Posted by michaelgallyot

I have tried all the steps listed in the knowledge base and still have jerky playback.
If any one has had problems with jerky playback and has the solution-please help.

AMD athlon 64 3200
Nvidia 6600 gt
Hauppage pvr 150 mce
Delta 410

What bitrate ("quality") do you record with?

How much RAM do you have?

What is your disk drive configuration? (IE, what drive(s) have the OS, what do you record to? What type of drive? (SATA, PATA, etc)

What version of BTV are you running?

Do you use 3D Accelerated Mode or Overlay mode? (Try Overlay)

Do you use ExclusiveFS mode? (Try it - search the KB for it)

What Codec do you use? (SnapStream Basic? NVidia Purevideo?)

What OS and service pack are you running at?

What version of DirectX 9.0 (b or c) are you using?

Do you have any antivirus installed? Is it "autoprotecting" your recordings?

Does the Windows Device Manager show any problems with hardware? (IE, any items with an "!" mark?)

Are you overclocking anything?

Do you have any other programs working in the backround? IE, is this machine dedicated to BTV?

[michaelgallyot]

Don't know what bit rate recording is
Two 160 pata hard drives raid 0
nvidia decoder 3d accelerator
Tried overlay-no good
MCE 2005
Directx 9.0c
Everything good in device manager
Tried turning off anti virus and spyware-doesn't help

[HomeyFour]

Originally Posted by michaelgallyot

Don't know what bit rate recording is
Two 160 pata hard drives raid 0
nvidia decoder 3d accelerator
Tried overlay-no good
MCE 2005
Directx 9.0c
Everything good in device manager
Tried turning off anti virus and spyware-doesn't help

What quality are you recording in? Thats what I mean by bitrate.

Try to answer all of the questions I've asked you, even if they seem trivial. It may shed some light for some of the users on the board to help you solve the problem.

[michaelgallyot]

Recording playback set to- dvd (best)
Am not overclocking
graphics card connected to panasonic tau 34 inch hdtv via component out adapter
nvidia 6600 gt

[manfre]

I'm having a similar problem where recordings will randomly pause and randomly jump ahead 10-30 seconds. When it pauses, the recording usually loses a few seconds. This happens when live recording and when playing back an old recording.

BTV 3.7.4 b2507
WinXP SP2
DirectX 9c
p4 3.2 ghz 1gb ram
GeForce4 Ti 4800
Hauppauge USB2-PVR

Drives:
PATA 60gb - OS
SATA Raid 5 600gb - storage (smart squeeze)
PATA 230gb - Recording drive

Codec: SnapStream Basic
Mode: Overlay

[amchev]

Originally Posted by michaelgallyot

Don't know what bit rate recording is
Two 160 pata hard drives raid 0
nvidia decoder 3d accelerator
Tried overlay-no good
MCE 2005
Directx 9.0c
Everything good in device manager
Tried turning off anti virus and spyware-doesn't help

I had some jerky playback and changing my decoder to "basic" and deinterlacing to "none" fixed my problems... actually the deinterlacing is what fixed it but then setting the decoder to basic eliminated any other jerky issues I had.

[michaelgallyot]

I get no picture when I set de-interlaceing to noneIf I set to basic with de-interlaceing on -I just get a lousy picture.
Anybody know why no picture with de-interlace-none

[Bilar Crais]

Originally Posted by michaelgallyot

I get no picture when I set de-interlaceing to noneIf I set to basic with de-interlaceing on -I just get a lousy picture.
Anybody know why no picture with de-interlace-none

Do you have an Nvidia 6600?

[magic]

I too, have previously had stutter and jerking problems with btv. I noticed that in task manager one of btv processes was spiking at close to 100% cpu usage. After I found the file (pvs library application perhaps), I disabled this in the admin page.
Also, I swiched to overlay, added a graphics card (instead of onboard default), and defragged my drive where I keep all recorded shows.
I've also tried many fixes that didn't work, but slowly everything has improved, thanks to the forum community. Good luck

[fanbanlo]

use Overlay & set De-interlace Control: Automatic

That setting fixed shuttering for me.

[michaelgallyot]

This is going to sound really dumb-but how do I set de- interlace to automatic?

[fanbanlo]

Originally Posted by michaelgallyot

This is going to sound really dumb-but how do I set de- interlace to automatic?

install the latest decoder if you haven't from here:
http://www.nzone.com/object/nzone_do...150-trial.html

whenever you're playing mpeg-2, a nvidia tray icon will appear in the system tray. Double click, and config your settings from there.

[michaelgallyot]

Won't installing the latest nvidia decoder screw up my theatertek?

[fanbanlo]

Originally Posted by michaelgallyot

Won't installing the latest nvidia decoder screw up my theatertek?

why?
try.
There's something call System Restore in XP...