Choppy audio and video

[mernst]

I am a new Beyond TV 4.5 user. I am running it on a P4 2.4 GHz PC with 512MB RAM, using Win XP SP2 operating system. I have an ATI All-in-Wonder X800XT tuner card. I am using Direct TV satellite with an H20 STB. I have played with several settings for both recording and playback. But regardless of the settings I try, the audio and video are both choppy on Live TV. My recordings seem to come out fine and play fine on another PC. When I run the Task Manager the CPU is pretty much pegged at 100% and the page file at around 750MB and up during Live TV.

Does anyone have any suggestions on what to try? Do I need more RAM?

Thanks for any help,
Mike

[queonda]

Are you running showsqueeze during that time?
Have you tried other playback codec settings?
Are you recording other shows during playback?
Are you running in overlay or 3d?

RAM may help. Your AIW is a software encoder card (means using your processor to help make the video).

[mernst]

Are you running showsqueeze during that time?

NO

Have you tried other playback codec settings?

I think so, if I know which setting you are talking about.

Are you recording other shows during playback?

No

Are you running in overlay or 3d?

I have tried both.

[queonda]

This is old but may help. You can install other codecs you may have. http://www.snapstream.com/Community/Articles/decoders/

Are you playbacks affected by WMA and divx??

[jodemeister]

lots of people having the same issue. buzz is 4.4 didn't have the same problem

Jerky PLayback with 4.5

[jodemeister]

as a followup: i uninstalled 4.5, installed 4.4 which honored the 21-day trial i started w/ 4.5.

performance was much better and i really liked it even though vid quality wasn't great. suspected the low-end OEM tuner card (Pixelview BT878-P+). wife & kids really liked it, bought it bundled w/ the firefly remote & hauppauge PVI-150 card.

installed all last night and really, really like it. vid quality is much, much better w/ mpeg-2 hardware support. remote use is pretty intuitive. watched a DVD while recording Veronica Mars at DVD quality - very few dropped frames. i wish MS media player was more embedded in the BeyondMedia Lite shell, but hey...

haven't tried the DVD burning plug-in yet. hope it works w/ 4.4.

despite my initial less-than-ideal experience w/ 4.5, this is a great product. the forums are a great support resource. i'm a happy camper rapidly filling my 250GB disk w/ recorded shows.

[jnmsnow]

OK... I have been battling the poor image quality for a few days now. To the point I was going to throw in the towel. Then I ran across this link in another tread (I belive it was over in another PVR products forum)

http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showt...3&page=2&pp=30

I applied the above reg fix and the picture was a little better but nowhere my expectations.

I also found another thread dealing with ATI cards and codecs and the user said his best experience has been with the PowerDVD codec. So I found a copy of PowerDVD. I am now using the PowerDVD codec in 3D mode with hardware deinterlacing. To me the resulting picture is just as good as if I were just using the STB.

Mike