Re: Stuttering MCE

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Hello JW,

The problem started long before the harddrive. I got the new harddrive in hopes of fixing it. Its primary on the second IDE channel. No hardware changes...

Thanks,
Shawn Wildermuth
Speaker, Author and C# MVP
http://adoguy.com

It acts like your tuner card and your video card and/or audio may be
sharing
the same IRQ. Have you done anything to change the hardware
configuration
or slot positions of components used by Live TV?
Did the problem start when you added the additional HDD?
If so you might try putting your recordings back on the origional
drive and
removing the new HDD and see what happens.
Are the 2 HDDs on the same IDE bus? If yes which is primary and which
is
secondary?
"Shawn Wildermuth (C# MVP)" <swildermuth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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Hello JW,

I have defragged and moved the video to both drives with the same
problems. Its not a SATA drive, but an IDE drive. I might be a
harddrive bandwidth issue, but my suspicion is that is it the CPU
that is getting pegged. Anyone know of a good way to get a log of the
system on the MCE?

Thanks,
Shawn Wildermuth
Speaker, Author and C# MVP
http://adoguy.com
Movieman,
It appears that your sytem is having trouble receiving and recording
the
video without dropping frames from your DVB card. Suggest you try
defragging your storage drive and you mignt even try moving the
storage back
to the C drive temporarily. How is your Sata drive connected?
"Movieman" <Movieman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Althought I have different hardware, I have the same problem with
'stuttering' Live TV only. Original recorded TV is OK, but new
recordings
are stuttering.
I have undated both the MCE1300 Hauppage TV card as well as the
Graphics
Card (GeForce 6600) I still get this stuttering.
It has to be the MCE as I have a Digital TV used for MCE and normal
viewing,
it has a DVB Tuner in it and that is rock stable all the time.
I run the AMD 64 3000+, 1Gig RAM, 40G C drive and a 300G TV record
SATA
Drive.
Any help will be appreciated, I have run out of options!!
Another wierd thing has happened today, I was watching the MCE on
Live TV
as
it was not too bad trying to figureout my next move, when suddenly
the
whole
screen went blue and the words 'Didital Audi Service' was displayed
on the
left hand side of the screen, TV audio was still audable and still
stuttering. On pressing the live TV button on the remote all came
back
as
normal, only to returen to the same screen after a short while.
Can anyone thro' some light on this as well.
Look forward to getting an answer to the picture/sound stuttering
problem.

Movieman>>

"JW" wrote:

Do you have any stuttering problems with playing recorded TV? Does
the audion also stutter or just the video?

"Shawn Wildermuth (C# MVP)" <swildermuth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote
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Hello Gary,

Below I'll mention the hardware, but it hasn't changed in the
year+
i've
used MCE. THe problem is one of gradually increasing crappyness.
I
can't
believe my hardware is slowly failing...
Dell 8100
P4 2.0 MHz
1 Gig of RAM
ATI 9700 Video Card with 64 Megs Memory (not enough for HD, but
upgrading
soon)
WinTV PVR-150 Video Capture Card
Hercules Game Theater XP 6.1 Soundcard
1-40 Gig 5400 IDE Harddrive (don't remember Manufacturer)
1-250 Gig 7200 IDE Harddrive (don't remember either)
Sony Dual Layer DVD-R/RW Burner
Does that help?
Thanks,
Shawn Wildermuth
Speaker, Author and C# MVP
http://adoguy.com
What hardware do you have then.

It's a bit hard to guess what you might have if you don't tell
us <g>

Microsoft MVP - Windows XP Shell/User
http://www.microsoft.com/mvp
"Shawn Wildermuth (C# MVP)" <swildermuth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote
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Hello Gary,

Thanks for the idea...but nope...Intel.

Thanks,
Shawn Wildermuth
Speaker, Author and C# MVP
http://adoguy.com
Do you have an AMD X2 CPU?

If so, you need to update your CPU driver. See here for an
explanation why.

New AMD Athlon 64 CPU Driver (version 1.3.2)
http://jtsang.blogspot.com/2006/07/new-amd-athlon-64-cpu-drive
r-
vers
io
n.html
Otherwise, it would hlep if you listed your hardware
configuration.
Microsoft MVP - Windows XP Shell/User
http://www.microsoft.com/mvp
"Shawn Wildermuth (C# MVP)" <swildermuth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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I have a decent class MCE machine that I use as my PVR only
(its
not
used
as a desktop at all). About 90% of the time when I watch
live
TV
it
is
fine, but occassional stuttering happens. I've noticed that
if
I
am
browsing the channel guide while watching TV that both the TV
and
access to
the channel guide stutter in sync (I move the cursor but it
waits
2-3
seconds then catches up). For the first six months the box
worked
well but
has been getting worse the last six months. The problem is
growing.
I have defragged the harddrive.
I have recently upgraded to a 7200 RPM drive and all
recording
is
happening to that dedicated drive.
I have stopped *all* unnecessary services.
Its still happening. ANy ideas?
Thanks,
Shawn Wildermuth
Speaker, Author and C# MVP
http://adoguy.com


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