For Jerky Video Users: 3.4.2 RC1 Available: more discussion

[Cayars]

Ctebo, try checking something on your system for me.

From the desktop click on Start, Setting, Control Panel, System. Once inside System Properties click the Hardware tab, then click on Device Manager. From inside of Device Manager, click the "View" menu click "Resources by type". Now expand the "Interrupt request (irq)" tree and look for hardware that is sharing irq's.

Probably the ones that are most important not to be shared are the PVR250 and your Video Card.

Let us know if any of these are conflicting.

Carlo

[ctebo]

Thanks for you help, but IRQ sharing isn't the problem... Stuttering on these machines does not happen with any other PVR applications... BTV 3.4 is the only one that exhibits this problem and makes it unusable as a video playback solution.

BTV 3.3 is what I'm running now, and it does not (nor has it ever had) this problem on the very same systems.

Chris

[TomZ]

Umm, this thread needs some good news. Being one of the most jerky users , I am happy to say that build 928 has solved my problems.

Thanks for addressing this problem.

[TomZ]

Oh, I just noticed that 928 fixes the problem with the skip forward/back being twice as long as set.

[Cayars]

Originally posted by ctebo
Thanks for you help, but IRQ sharing isn't the problem... Stuttering on these machines does not happen with any other PVR applications... BTV 3.4 is the only one that exhibits this problem and makes it unusable as a video playback solution.

BTV 3.3 is what I'm running now, and it does not (nor has it ever had) this problem on the very same systems.

Chris

But, did you actually check this or just assuming there isn't an IRQ problem because other programs don't have the problem? Don't forget most other programs use overlay and BTV uses VMR which relies much more on the hardware and can bring out these types of problems more.

Carlo

[Sting]

Originally posted by Sting
P4-3.0@3.2GHz
1GB Corsair PC3500 TWINX
WD 80GBSE (Boot/PAGEFILE/APPS)
2xSeagate 160GB SATA RAID0 (video only)
Hauppauge WinTV 350
Was AIW9000, now 9600 (tried AIW9600Pro) CAT 4.1
Intervideo (Hauppauge)
MPEG2/BEST
Intermittent 3-8 seconds apart.
Problem not present in 3.3 or WinTV2000

Problem is seen in MPEG2 playback using BTV 3.4. All MPEG2 recordings(new or old)/LiveTV using BTV exhibits jerky video, like dropping frames. When playing back clips in non-BTV player, video is good.

I have an open troubleticket and build909 did not help.

Found a working setting that virtually eliminates the jerkiness.

Set "True fullscreen" mode under config/advanced/interface menu. If you have an LCD, try to match its native resolution so screen interpolation doesn't degrade quality. I rarely see the video glitches in this mode and all de-interlace settings work fine.

Problem still exists in windowed mode or "True fullscreen" disabled.

Hope this helps others.

-Sting

[saw7219]

Want to try 3.4.2 RC1 but it rejects my paid license code.
It comes up in trial mode but expired.
Anybody else having this problem ?
Ideas ?

[saw7219]

If you want to try PVS 3.3
You can download it from here:
http://snapstream.fileburst.com/store/

Alot of us have no problem with this version.

[Michael Harris]

Does installing 3.3 mean totally de-installing 3.4 or can both be on the system.

[ctebo]

Originally posted by Cayars


But, did you actually check this or just assuming there isn't an IRQ problem because other programs don't have the problem? Don't forget most other programs use overlay and BTV uses VMR which relies much more on the hardware and can bring out these types of problems more.

Carlo

I did check my irq assignments. Not the problem...

I apologize for the tone in my previous post, but appreciate the fact that my sentiment comes from loving this program (while it actually worked), and seeing 3.4 become a completely non-functional peice of software for me.

I have been running BTV/PVS since July of last year and while it had a glitch here and there, it consistently delivered on the promise of a PVR solution.

With 3.4 on 2 of my machines, and for several of my friends that went out and purchased BTV after seeing my setup with 3.3, 3.4 is absolutely USELESS as a PVR. Watching recordings with my 3.4 setup is about as pleasant as watching VCR tapes that have been left on the dash of your car for several days. The recordings are fine. They playback with other VMR and overlay based players smooth as silk.

Rolling back to 3.3 restores the ability to use BTV to playback its recordings. IRQs are not the problem... Defragging is not the problem... The software is the problem...

I've now probably wasted 20 hours trying to solve this problem. I can't afford to dump any more time into this. I'm sticking to 3.3. When 3.5 betas start to show up, I might give them a shot, but I might just go and find myself another solution.

Chris

[sperlsco]

Originally posted by ynnek888
However, when I'm watching a previously recorded show, and BTV ends recording of another show, I still get jerks and hangs while its wrappiong up the recording.. for like 5-15 seconds..

This exactly describes my problem with 3.4.1. After reading your comment, I am now hesitant to try 3.4.2. OTOH, in the interest of helping the community I'll probably try it tonight.

Does anyone know if I'll have to redo a bunch of my settings after this install, like I did when upgrading from 3.3 to 3.4.1 (i.e. custom EPG, ...)?

[Cayars]

It's not like the upgrade from 3.3 to 3.4. It should be a "clean" upgrade with no problems.

Carlo

[key master]

Not sure if this helps, but is the resolution that you are recording in set to the same number that your screen resolution is set to? I changed mine to the same values and that really helped the issue back when I was having it. (I upgraded to 3.4.1 and the problem vanished entirely for my setup.)

-Jim

[zonko]

When is this software going gold??? most other software vendors call rc1 BETA and DO NOT charge money. 3 releases in about a month?
I never did buy TIVO, but i did buy SAGE and there is no comparison

[dragin33]

Originally posted by zonko
When is this software going gold??? most other software vendors call rc1 BETA and DO NOT charge money. 3 releases in about a month?

What are you babling about. Snapstream Media is selling 3.0 Any releases after that (maybe up until 4.0, but maybe not) are FREE. This includes 3.1, 3.2, 3.2 and more. with each release they give you more features! "3 Releases in a month." Yea, So, That's awesome! They never stop making it better.

I never did buy TIVO, but i did buy SAGE and there is no comparison

Cause Sage looks horrible and Tivo Looks nice and works?