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User Poll with WinTV-PVR 150/500?.

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SHS:
Just wonding how min of you are happy or are not happy?, Please this for the WinTV-PVR 150, MCE, I.p. and 500MCE only.
Make not diff what 3rdparty tool you are using plases vote any way.

Also those that are not happy plases post why you not are happy with Audio or Video or both Audio/Video.
Also be sure add your Tuner Type weather it PAL-(?) or NTSC-(?) or Source Input Type "S/Video or Composite" and Broadcast Input Type "Antenna, Digital Antenna (HDTV,DVB STB), Analog Cable, Digital Cable (STB), Satellite (Dishnetwork, DirecTV, Sky Digital STB)" and the Applications "SageTV, BeyondTV, MCE, CTpvr" your using and an other useful info.
Like for Example like me
NTSC-M, Digital Cable (STB) S/Video (Encoder #1) and Analog Cable (Encoder #2), Time Warner Cable with SageTV Server.
Server
Windows20000 with SP4 and all latest patch, DX9.0c
Intel P4 1600a 478
Intel D845WN Motherboard
512MB of Memory
WinTV-PVR 500MCE
Edimax EN-9130TX NIC (Realtek RTL8139)
3 Maxtor 250GB
nVidia GeForce4 MX 4000 64MB AGP

Shot Keya:
edit: some added corrections about improvements:

PAL unhappy about tuner and composite video using analogue cable on the tuner and digital videocamera on the composite input now a lot happier after some tweaking)
why?
- because the white is overexposed (very badly in light scenes, white clothes, easily visible in histogram) (can be reduced by reducing contrast)
- because the combfilter doesn't work properly by default (can now be tweaked, it's working better)
- temporalnoisefilter too high by default (can be tweaked to lower value)
- skipping frames in joint stereo mode recordings

PAL unhappy about audio using the audio input on the card (the tuner is fine)
why?
- heavily distorted audio by default, after tweaking it still isn't optimal because of the limiter

Windows MCE2005
Asus A8V MB
Athlon64 3000+
1024 MB RAM
ATI Radeon 9550 SE

recording programs: WinTV2000, GBPVR
video decoders: Media MVP, Cyberlink decoder, Nero decoder, FFDSHOW

I'm personally more concerned about the video issues than the audio issues

borgs:
I'm a PAL PVR-150 MCE user. I said that I was unhappy with the video and audio in the poll.

I'm slightly unhappy with the video as I can't get as good a picture as I think the hardware can give. It's mainly the whites being washed out. I was very unhappy with motion artifacts but I seem to have pretty much fixed that by changing the temporal setting in the tweak tool.

The audio I am most annoyed at. Most recordings exhibit clipping and the volume is all over the place. I will be trying another driver soon that hopefully works with the tweak tool to see if I can fix this. Why there is a volume limiter I do not know - it's not like we're listening to it through headphones!

I'm prrety annoyed that its taken me 10 months and 3 PCs to get something half decent. Two PCs work OK with WinTV 2000 but give black and white, tearing, stuttery images and bad lip-sync with every other application. Luckily, the machine I bought specifically to be a video recorder, an EPIA 5000 actually works pretty well - otherwise I would have binned the card and switched to another manufacturer.

There are a lot of drivers to choose from, which is good, but unfortunately most of them exhibit some problem or another.

But, if I can get rid of the current issues then I will finally be happy with my home built PVR, which is very reliable, near silent and has just enough power to be able to record one channel and watch another recorded programme (using the MVP) at the same time.

The MVP is not without its faults either but that's a different story.

My current setup:

EPIA 5000 (running at about 350Mhz Intel equivalent)
512Mb RAM
40Gb HD
PVR 150 MCE
Windows XP
USB-UIRT
Sky Digital receiver
GB-PVR (for recording TV programmes only)
MVP (using Hauppauge software )

The setup is a combined video recorder / router

Cirruz:
Damn! I've chose the wrong answer ("PAL I'm Happy with my A/V")! Is there any way to fix it?

Cirruz

manj:
sorry shs , ive done same as cirruz , ive clicked im happy a/v - pal , it should be NOT happy with video and audio

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