Re: stuttering video part 2

Thanks again, I guess a second and unrelated question to the stuttering was
the error that Im receiving when trying to watch live tv. It states that the
"decoder is in use please close MCE and try again" how do I fix this, I am
not running other applications. I did install Adobe elements 2.0 recently.

"JW" wrote:

It has nothing to do with the Decoder the video is out of sequence before
the decoder gets it.
If use the BIOS to turn off a CPU then all applications will be affected
when they are trying to run at the same time as somtthing else. If you just
change the affinity of the ehrcver then it should not have an effect but to
fix the problem.

"mceuser" <mceuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Thankyou,
that sounds like an easier fix. Will that affect other functions of my
system? How do I find out what "other" application is using the decoder
that
live tv is attempting to use and thus not running.

"JW" wrote:

When MCE imports the encoded video buffers into the system from the tuner
and then writes them to disk it double buffers them so that it can be
writing one while receiving the next. The AMD dual core CPU driver had a
bug that could and often did get the writing of the buffers to disk out
of
correct time sequence which casued the stuttering of both Live and
Recorded
TV.
Until AMD fixes the problem that they admitted to you. You have two
choices.
1. Dissable one of the CPU cores in the MOBO BIOS.
or
2.Set the affinity of the ehrcvr process to only one of the CPUs in the
task manager by right cliking on it.
"mceuser" <mceuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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After determining from a previous post that I needed the latest CPU
driver
for the AMD 3800X2 processor,
I got the driver but that opened a whole new can of worms. It wont
install
because it looks for the C: drive to find the boot.ini file. I dont
have a C: drive and couldnt find the boot .ini file anywhere.
Basically
ended up deleting something that I shouldnt have and had to reload
windows.
AMD knows of the problem but apparently is taking their own sweet time
to
fix
it. Until then I guess no PVR functions. Now I also get a message
that
the
decoder is in use by another application and cant watch live tv. All
other
MCE functions seem to work, Any suggestions ? or am I hosed until AMD
comes
out with a loadable driver. Also, what does the CPU driver have to do
with
this issue of video stuttering.
Thanks








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