Re: Chugging video & garbled audio when watching live/recorded TV

What motherboard do you have?

What chipset does it use? Have you installed the chipset drivers?

Otherwise, what is the Device Instance ID (you can find this in the
properties of the Unknown Items within Device Manager). I would guess that
it is the SMBus, but without more information, that's all it is, a guess...

BTW, the Nvidia decoder you listed is not the latest version. The latest
released version can be found here (version 1.02.150).

http://www.nvidia.com/object/dvd_decoder_1.02-150-trial.html

--
Gary Tsang
Microsoft MVP - Windows XP Shell/User
http://www.microsoft.com/mvp


"AC [MVP MCMS]" <swamplander@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> I've setup my new WMCE box and almost everything seems to be working
> correctly. One thing that isn't working well is when I try to watch live
> or recorded TV... the video seems to be out of sync or more like every few
> frames is lags. The whole time the audio sounds very cryptic and garbled.
> The thing that confuses me is playing my MP3's works fine, as does
> watching My Videos and My Pictures. DVDs even play perfectly. However,
> once I star the TV up and then try to switch to one of those other media
> types, they start to lag as well.
>
> I have chcked and made sure I have the absolute latest drivers for my
> video card and tuner. I have also tried using the latest NVIDIA DVD
> Decoder and the latest WinDVD software (rebooting between the two, and
> uninstalling one before installing the other). I've also disabled A/V and
> ensured nothing else was running. I've listed my hardware and driver
> versions below:
>
> ATI RADEON X700 256MB PCIEx16
> CATALYST v5.8
> (when viewing the driver info from device manager: 8.162.0.0)
> Hauppage WinTV 150MCE PCI
> 2.0.30.23074
> When using the NVIDIA DVD Decoder
> 1.00.58
> Other hardware of note:
> Intel Pentium D 820 (dual core 2.8Ghz)
> 2x512 DDR2
>
> The box is connected to a DirecTV satellite set-top-box via SVideo and RCA
> for audio.
>
> The only other thing I can mention is when I look at the device manager, I
> see an unknown PCI device. There are 4 cards in this box, 3 are PCI (the
> video card is PCI-Express): sound card, Hauppage tuner, USR modem... but
> all three are listed within the device manager as found s this unknown
> devide is a mystery to me (I've deleted it, scanned for new hardware and
> it keeps finding it... each time I've told it to look in a directory where
> I placed all the video card, sound card, tuner, and modem drivers and it
> never finds anything).
>
> Thanks in advance,
> --
> ----------------------------------------
> -AC [MVP MCMS]
> www.andrewconnell.com
> www.andrewconnell.com/mvp
>
>
>


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