Near DVD quality comes out extremely jumpy and concerns:

I have recorded with Near VHS and VHS and it works fine, very clear picture. However, when I set to Near DVD quality, the picture is very jumpy/blurry.

System specs:
AMD Athlon 1.4 Thunderbird
392Megs RAM
Win2K Adv. Server
Hauppauge WinTV PCI

I do however, have a really crappy video card in there (2MB?) but play and record is great in Near VHS and VHS.

Heres some other concerns/bugs of mine:
1. The TV Guide does not work in the actual software, made known by a few other users also.
2. Record.cgi is quite slow for running on localhost.


A side note - Great program, just needs a bit more work to it, but I want more codecs! WMA is nothing compared to DiVX 4.0

I meant WMV ... Anyways, I found that the record.cgi is slow only because it cannot access the titantv site. If you take out the url from the settings it goes right away.

New concern: It says in the FAQs that you have to change a .ini setting manually to switch input from tuner to composite. This should be an option in the adv. record settings.

[tjkraz]

Originally posted by LiQuiD8d:
[B]I have recorded with Near VHS and VHS and it works fine, very clear picture. However, when I set to Near DVD quality, the picture is very jumpy/blurry.
B]

That's usually indicative of not having enough CPU resources to encode at the Near DVD level.

Try starting a recording and opening the Windows Task Manager. See what your CPU Usage percent is. If it's maxing-out at 100%, you just don't have the "juice" to encode at that level.

[amit]

You can set your video input (tuner or composite) in the configure->video sources->Edit section of the software if you are using WDM drivers for your Tuner card.

If you are using VFW drivers, you need to run through the hardware wizard and select your video source (tuner or composite).