Hauppauge WinTV-HVR 1300 completely unreliable software!

[bgavin]

Re: Hauppauge WinTV-HVR 1300 completely unreliable software!

that's not possible. rhd is only for pci-e. the manufacturers hardmod the chip for agp. the drivers won't work no matter what. i've tried, its stupid and you feel stupid after spending forever trying to get it to work.

Perhaps that is why it blue screened.
Read the 0x21 dump output, and find IRQ=5 in the cause field.
Attempting to read 0x000 is in the protected IRQ offset tables in base ram.

Again, this is a stupid coder problem.
More than likely a local variable overflow such as sticking a 64 bit value into a 32 bit variable, and overwriting the executing code.

[goodpsusearch]

Re: Hauppauge WinTV-HVR 1300 completely unreliable software!

I'm not sure if you'll get any hardware acceleration from your card. I get hardware acceleration on my setup because my HD tuner has the ATI theater chip and I have an ATI card (XFX 4850). The easiest way to see is to check your CPU usage while you're watching live HD. If it's super low (~3% for me) then you know your graphics card is doing most of the work.

Hi! I am not able to test my card with live HD TV because we don't have any HD shows here yet.

Most dvb-t channels here broadcast MPEG-4 H.264, but SD resolution.

The total CPU usage varies between 50% and 60%. I don't know what service belongs to the dvb-t decoder, so I attach 2 screenshots of the task manager.

Given that this is a slow computer (Athlon XP 2200+, 1GB DDR 355MHZ, ATI HD4650 AGP) and I am running Windows 7, do you think hardware acceleration is enabled?

[toastygoodness]

Re: Hauppauge WinTV-HVR 1300 completely unreliable software!

i doubt it. hauppauge hvr 1250-1300 series all use soft-drivers for the mpeg encoder feed. even on my modern system its roughly 10% for qam, so with hd dvb-t i would expect even more.