drake3
March 28th, 2008, 12:40 AM
Hi,
I am a beginner to the DIY PVR project. I am testing out some options and installed 7.10 on 2 machines. The first one is a Dell Precision 380 workstation at home. This machine is a 3.4 Pent. D with 1GB. I am not testing HD, just SD TV with an ATI TV VE PCI card I had lying around. I checked the compatibility list and it seems like this card should work without much fuss for a simple test.
The problem is that once I go to watch live TV it will play fine for what seems like a random amount of time - usually less than 20 seconds and then it switches into slow motion. The sound is fine, but it is coming directly out of the TV card. I thought it may be an issue with the video card. I first had an ATI 2400 XT, that did not work very well. Then I switched to an Nvidia 8600GS - had a large white frame around the picture and was not recognized on boot by Unbuntu. Then I finally switched to a GeForce 6 PCIe card which works the best. (I have a good amount of spare parts from work to test with.)
I am not sure what is going on with the Dell, but then I took the ATI TV card to work and put it into an AMD/VIA based system with an AGP video card. I don't have cable at work so I hooked it up to a VCR I had sitting in my lab and it seems to work much better than the faster Dell workstation at home.
I searched the forums and google, but did not find anything exactly that fits the problem. I looked into the frontend and backend logs. There are entries in the backend log about "unknown video codec", but I am not sure if this is because the ATI framegrabber card is misconfigured. I really would like to get a working system on the Dell I have a home. Then I could feel better about going out and buying some better capture hardware.
Thanks in advance for any help!
I am a beginner to the DIY PVR project. I am testing out some options and installed 7.10 on 2 machines. The first one is a Dell Precision 380 workstation at home. This machine is a 3.4 Pent. D with 1GB. I am not testing HD, just SD TV with an ATI TV VE PCI card I had lying around. I checked the compatibility list and it seems like this card should work without much fuss for a simple test.
The problem is that once I go to watch live TV it will play fine for what seems like a random amount of time - usually less than 20 seconds and then it switches into slow motion. The sound is fine, but it is coming directly out of the TV card. I thought it may be an issue with the video card. I first had an ATI 2400 XT, that did not work very well. Then I switched to an Nvidia 8600GS - had a large white frame around the picture and was not recognized on boot by Unbuntu. Then I finally switched to a GeForce 6 PCIe card which works the best. (I have a good amount of spare parts from work to test with.)
I am not sure what is going on with the Dell, but then I took the ATI TV card to work and put it into an AMD/VIA based system with an AGP video card. I don't have cable at work so I hooked it up to a VCR I had sitting in my lab and it seems to work much better than the faster Dell workstation at home.
I searched the forums and google, but did not find anything exactly that fits the problem. I looked into the frontend and backend logs. There are entries in the backend log about "unknown video codec", but I am not sure if this is because the ATI framegrabber card is misconfigured. I really would like to get a working system on the Dell I have a home. Then I could feel better about going out and buying some better capture hardware.
Thanks in advance for any help!