choppy video

[John Marion]

I finally got MM2 to work with my USB Hauppauge tuner. I had to switch from
digital audio to analog using the sound card to get it to work. So I set
about to capture my first movie. For two and a half hours it captured.
Then it spent TWO HOURS saving that two and a half hours! Then the video
ended up being too jerky to watch. The system is 1.3gHz and the Hauppage
soft PVR has been working fine but I wanted to try MM2. I think the problem
here is that the USB video is compressed and MM2 was having to uncompress
it. Is that a reasonable assumption? I was set for "Best for this
computer... 320x240 30 fps same as I use with MM1 and a PCI tuner card.

 

[Mike Movie]

It sounds like the problem is the computer is not fast enough to do record
software PVR and capture and encode the Windows Media File. You can try
capturing to a format which doesn't as much CPU power to encode (lower
bitrate instead of Best for your computer) or using a hardware capture card.

Mike

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[John Marion]

It turns out the driver defaults to 25fps. I tried again making sure I was
set to 30fps. Also, I don't know how it could matter, but I found I had
disabled video acceleration for a problem video game and I corrected that.
Now movies save instantly and play perfectly and I think MM2 does a better
job than the softPVR. softPVR has the advantage of timer recording so I'm
conflicted which to use.