donlode Posted February 3, 2007 Share Posted February 3, 2007 Just installed a TV tuner and it is very glitchy and frame loss in both sd and hdtv modes. My top set box using the same aerial has no issue. The strenght is 70-90% normally. what is wrong? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob_D Posted February 3, 2007 Share Posted February 3, 2007 You haven't said what card it is or given any detail on your pc, cpu, graphics card etc. No one can help you without some information. 70% is rather low for good performance. Rob Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
donlode Posted February 3, 2007 Author Share Posted February 3, 2007 You haven't said what card it is or given any detail on your pc, cpu, graphics card etc.No one can help you without some information. 70% is rather low for good performance. Rob P4 2 GHZ, 256mb ram, 64MB graphics card, 40GB HDD Compro DVB-T200A The reception on Set box is 85-100% Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digitalj Posted February 3, 2007 Share Posted February 3, 2007 P4 2 GHZ, 256mb ram, 64MB graphics card, 40GB HDDCompro DVB-T200A The reception on Set box is 85-100% If I were you, I'd upgrade the ram to 1024MB aka 1GB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
serial101 Posted February 3, 2007 Share Posted February 3, 2007 I have a similar issue. I am using a Twinhan Visionplus DVB-T card (latest BDA drivers and TV, signal strength is a steady 87% and Quality never dips below 97% - My PC is a Core 2 Duo E6600 based setup with 2gig of very fast DDR2 RAM and recording to a 150gig Western Digital Raptor (Motherboard = Gigabyte DQ6, Videocard = Geforce 8800 GTX). The twinhan has been sitting around for ages, since it was purchased (to replace an early and extremely disappointing avermedia) and since purchase I have had it in 3 completely different PC's and even moved house - is it just part and parcel of the whole DTV on PC experience to have regular glitches in recordings and watching of live TV or is it a case of having purchased two dud cards in a row? I am more than keen to try another more recent DTV card but not if its normal for constant glitches in recordings Aplogies for the long post and cheers in advance for any help anyone can provide I have a similar issue. I am using a Twinhan Visionplus DVB-T card (latest BDA drivers and TV, signal strength is a steady 87% and Quality never dips below 97% - My PC is a Core 2 Duo E6600 based setup with 2gig of very fast DDR2 RAM and recording to a 150gig Western Digital Raptor (Motherboard = Gigabyte DQ6, Videocard = Geforce 8800 GTX). The twinhan has been sitting around for ages, since it was purchased (to replace an early and extremely disappointing avermedia) and since purchase I have had it in 3 completely different PC's and even moved house - is it just part and parcel of the whole DTV on PC experience to have regular glitches in recordings and watching of live TV or is it a case of having purchased two dud cards in a row? I am more than keen to try another more recent DTV card but not if its normal for constant glitches in recordings Aplogies for the long post and cheers in advance for any help anyone can provide P.S. I only posted in this thread as I am unable to make new one of my own for some reason - again apologies Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
donlode Posted February 3, 2007 Author Share Posted February 3, 2007 I removed the card and installed it on a similar spec system and it appears to work fine except for channel 9 HD which is bands of coloured lines, but SD channel 9 is fine. My HTPC that had only 1 pci. It must be due to either software or hardware conflict. I use the standard microsoft drivers for the motherboard, video card etc. There is no conflict in system device manager Maybe I will buy a USB tuners instead? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob_D Posted February 3, 2007 Share Posted February 3, 2007 The cable from your antenna may be picking up interference particularly on the fly lead from the wall socket to the pci card as pc's put out interference. try a quad shielded fly lead. Rob Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drubie Posted February 4, 2007 Share Posted February 4, 2007 I removed the card and installed it on a similar spec system and it appears to work fine except for channel 9 HD which is bands of coloured lines, but SD channel 9 is fine. My HTPC that had only 1 pci. It must be due to either software or hardware conflict. I use the standard microsoft drivers for the motherboard, video card etc. There is no conflict in system device manager Maybe I will buy a USB tuners instead? I'm not sure what you guys are doing wrong - I've got an original DVICO HDTVFusion card in an ancient AMD 2000+ PC with 512Mb of memory and I see a glitch about once a week. The signal strength etc. I've got is about the same as reported by others (i.e. around 80%) - it's running from an un amplified bit of very dodgy old coax (new antenna though) - there are at least 3 unpowered splits in the cable and it runs through an Austar box before it ever gets near the PC. If you're running Windows, my guess is that it's your anti-virus software causing problems, the video card driver is garbage or you've got a failing HDD. Any PC made after 2000 should be able to decode HD DVB signals as long as not too many other things are running. Make sure that your TV decoder is using any hardware acceleration you have on the video card - that can help a lot. cheers, dave. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andy59 Posted February 4, 2007 Share Posted February 4, 2007 I removed the card and installed it on a similar spec system and it appears to work fine except for channel 9 HD which is bands of coloured lines, but SD channel 9 is fine. My HTPC that had only 1 pci. It must be due to either software or hardware conflict. I use the standard microsoft drivers for the motherboard, video card etc. There is no conflict in system device manager Maybe I will buy a USB tuners instead? This sounds the same as the T300 issues which use the same driver and app. Did you check via add/remove programs that you only have one instance of the driver installed. Best if you download the latest DTV 3 ver 3026 and driver 1355 available since yesterday. Remove the old app and driver(s) before installing. See the T300 thread. Andy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
donlode Posted February 5, 2007 Author Share Posted February 5, 2007 This sounds the same as the T300 issues which use the same driver and app. Did you check via add/remove programs that you only have one instance of the driver installed. Best if you download the latest DTV 3 ver 3026 and driver 1355 available since yesterday. Remove the old app and driver(s) before installing. See the T300 thread.Andy I tried the new drivers on the web site, but they dont seem to work. I had to uninstall them and use the ones thet cam with the CD. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andy59 Posted February 6, 2007 Share Posted February 6, 2007 See the T300 thread for the install problems we had, but it installed ok in the end. Andy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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