Vista Media Center Audio/Video Problems

[Guest]

Media Center Starts out great! About 30-40 seconds into live OR recorded
playback, video and sound get choppy. The sound goes out shortly after and
the only way to get it back for the whole 30 seconods is to restart media
center. BTW, When i close media center Vista sounds conviently still work
fine.. Drivers have all been updated and microsoft seems to think there is no
problem. Any help would be appreciated.

computer info:
1290.15 Gigabytes Usable Hard Drive Capacity

MEMORY
2048 Megabytes Installed Memory

Slot 'CHANNEL A DIMM 0' has 512 MB
Slot 'CHANNEL B DIMM 0' has 512 MB
Slot 'CHANNEL A DIMM 1' has 512 MB
Slot 'CHANNEL B DIMM 1' has 512 MB

PROCESSOR
3.20 gigahertz Intel Pentium 4
8 kilobyte primary memory cache
512 kilobyte secondary memory cache

MAIN CIRCUIT BOARD
Board: Dell Computer Corp. 0U2424
Bus Clock: 800 megahertz
BIOS: Dell Computer Corporation A06 09/27/2004

DISPLAY
RADEON 9800 PRO (Microsoft Corporation - WDDM) [Display adapter]
RADEON 9800 PRO - Secondary (Microsoft Corporation - WDDM) [Display adapter]
Philips 32FD9944/9954 [Monitor] (32.4"vis)

MULTIMEDIA
Creative Audigy Audio Processor (WDM)
Hauppauge WinTV PVR2 USB2 Encoder

Other Devices:
OHCI Compliant IEEE 1394 Host Controller
HID-compliant consumer control device (3x)
HID-compliant device (8x)
Microsoft eHome Infrared Transceiver
USB Human Interface Device (3x)
HID Keyboard Device
Microsoft eHome MCIR 109 Keyboard
Microsoft eHome MCIR Keyboard
Microsoft eHome Remote Control Keyboard keys
HID-compliant mouse (3x)
eHome Infrared Receiver (USBCIR)
Generic USB Hub (2x)
USB Composite Device
USB Mass Storage Device (5x)
USB Root Hub (5x)
Generic volume shadow copy (11x)

 

[Tom Ziegmann]

There are some known performance issues with Media Center. The Media Center
team is working on getting those fixed by RTM. Have you tried running
Windows Update to see if there are any driver updates for your sound card,
and how about contacting Creative? I would also suggest close out of any
other applications that might want to use large amounts of memory or the
sound card.

 

[Guest]

Thanks for the info Tom! Unfort. I did update all drivers for video and audio
hardware. Since my hair is gone from pulling it all out, I guess i just gotta
laugh at the 30 second "teaser" i get whenever i begin to watch or record in
media center. Looking forward to Mirosoft pulling it together as i've been
excited about this feature for a long time. Thanks again Tom and if you hear
of anything new please let me know!

There are some known performance issues with Media Center. The Media Center
team is working on getting those fixed by RTM. Have you tried running
Windows Update to see if there are any driver updates for your sound card,
and how about contacting Creative? I would also suggest close out of any
other applications that might want to use large amounts of memory or the
sound card.

--
Tom Ziegmann
Microsoft Certified Professional
Windows Vista / Server Longhorn TechBeta Tester
Windows Server 2003 SP2 TechBeta Tester

Media Center Starts out great! About 30-40 seconds into live OR recorded
playback, video and sound get choppy. The sound goes out shortly after
and
the only way to get it back for the whole 30 seconods is to restart media
center. BTW, When i close media center Vista sounds conviently still work
fine.. Drivers have all been updated and microsoft seems to think there is
no
problem. Any help would be appreciated.

computer info:
1290.15 Gigabytes Usable Hard Drive Capacity

MEMORY
2048 Megabytes Installed Memory

Slot 'CHANNEL A DIMM 0' has 512 MB
Slot 'CHANNEL B DIMM 0' has 512 MB
Slot 'CHANNEL A DIMM 1' has 512 MB
Slot 'CHANNEL B DIMM 1' has 512 MB

PROCESSOR
3.20 gigahertz Intel Pentium 4
8 kilobyte primary memory cache
512 kilobyte secondary memory cache

MAIN CIRCUIT BOARD
Board: Dell Computer Corp. 0U2424
Bus Clock: 800 megahertz
BIOS: Dell Computer Corporation A06 09/27/2004

DISPLAY
RADEON 9800 PRO (Microsoft Corporation - WDDM) [Display adapter]
RADEON 9800 PRO - Secondary (Microsoft Corporation - WDDM) [Display
adapter]
Philips 32FD9944/9954 [Monitor] (32.4"vis)

MULTIMEDIA
Creative Audigy Audio Processor (WDM)
Hauppauge WinTV PVR2 USB2 Encoder

Other Devices:
OHCI Compliant IEEE 1394 Host Controller
HID-compliant consumer control device (3x)
HID-compliant device (8x)
Microsoft eHome Infrared Transceiver
USB Human Interface Device (3x)
HID Keyboard Device
Microsoft eHome MCIR 109 Keyboard
Microsoft eHome MCIR Keyboard
Microsoft eHome Remote Control Keyboard keys
HID-compliant mouse (3x)
eHome Infrared Receiver (USBCIR)
Generic USB Hub (2x)
USB Composite Device
USB Mass Storage Device (5x)
USB Root Hub (5x)
Generic volume shadow copy (11x)