Re: Choppy TV

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As far as running programs in the background, my test machine is empty of all
applications with the exception of anti-virus software, which a few
format/reloads ago, I even started removing after the initial setup was done,
and I unplugged it from the network. So only Vista standard processes are
running at any given time.
I believe the tally is 48 processes after boot.

"JW" wrote:

is there any other process running that is performing a lot of disk I/O or
other activity such as network activity or indexing?
What make/model graphics card are you using?
Is the audio also choppy?
I did not want you to rewind to the beginning since that would empty all
current data out of your disk cache. I just wanted you to pause for a
minute or two in order that you would be running the live TV out of disk
cache and not have to be reading from the disk.
What make/model tuner card do you have?
Are you using the Vista provided default decoder?
"ItsColdOutside" <ItsColdOutside@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Nothing is sharing the IRQ's, disk caching is enabled, and if I rewind, it
stays choppy, its only slightly better if I watch a program that has
finished
recording completely.

"JW" wrote:

Check to make sure that you have disk caching and and dma disk transfers
enabled.
If you pause live TV for about a minute and then play it is it still
choppy?
Also check to be sure that your tuner card and either your graphics card
or
sound card are not sharing the same IRQ.
"ItsColdOutside" <ItsColdOutside@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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Hey all, just a brief problem.
I run several media PCs, some pre-built, some I've built, all run
amazingly
well using XP MCE without issue. My problem, would be that I'm in the
process of upgrading most of them, and building another media pc for a
new
home theater system, using Vista x32 as the new platform. I've been
"testing" configurations on one PC to start with, and all of them have
the
same problem so far.

When watching live TV, there is a slight stutter in the video.
Fractions
of
seconds, the video pauses, and then has a few fast-frames to catch up
to
the
audio, that never misses a beat. I've used multiple TV tuners, a few
different processors from a 2.8GHz P4, to the newest Intel Quad Core.
It
happens on ALL video resolutions, and happens "slightly" less on
recorded
TV,
than live. DVD playback is fine, DivX is fine, it's only TV. The only
thing
that has effected any kind of bonus so far, is the hard drives, running
a
single drive, it's most "choppy", with two drives, it's quite a bit
smoother,
but still noticable. The only "odd" thing, would be that recorded TV
is
perfectly smooth in windowed mode, but not live TV.

I first encountered this "bug" in the Vista Beta, but had long since
hoped
it would be fixed. Anyone have some ideas out there?



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