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Offline Mike M

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Tuner skips while recording
« on: June 22, 2010, 06:13:32 PM »
I use an ATI tuner on my XP desktop, which has been flawless for me up until today. Whenever I record, the tuner starts skipping and my videos turn out horrible. I've tried everything to help solve this, such as quitting processes that may use up CPU and system usages, and restarting/shutting down my computer several times and nothing is working. Any ideas?
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Re: Tuner skips while recording
« Reply #1 on: June 22, 2010, 06:52:20 PM »
Quote from: Mike M on June 22, 2010, 06:13:32 PM
I use an ATI tuner on my XP desktop, which has been flawless for me up until today. Whenever I record, the tuner starts skipping and my videos turn out horrible. I've tried everything to help solve this, such as quitting processes that may use up CPU and system usages, and restarting/shutting down my computer several times and nothing is working. Any ideas?
Check the power supply? Also it could be an issue with the hard drive space that is required to save your videos in. My videos will ocassionally skip because of the low memory/hard drive space
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Re: Tuner skips while recording
« Reply #2 on: June 22, 2010, 07:13:31 PM »
Try doing a defrag. Even if there is plenty of HDD space if the drive has to go around a lot to read and write it can slow performance. Also try reinstalling your drivers
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Re: Tuner skips while recording
« Reply #3 on: June 24, 2010, 10:36:58 AM »
Got my desk defragmented and uninstalled the software, but I think my software CD got ruined, as my computer can't read it anymore. :pinch: Is anyone here familiar with any good TV viewing software that's free and works with ATI tuners and Windows XP?
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Re: Tuner skips while recording
« Reply #4 on: June 24, 2010, 10:58:50 AM »
Quote from: Mike M on June 24, 2010, 10:36:58 AM
Got my desk defragmented and uninstalled the software, but I think my software CD got ruined, as my computer can't read it anymore. :pinch: Is anyone here familiar with any good TV viewing software that's free and works with ATI tuners and Windows XP?


see if any of these work

http://hauppauge.com/site/support/support_hvr950q.html under 3rd party
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Re: Tuner skips while recording
« Reply #5 on: June 24, 2010, 12:00:00 PM »
Quote from: Mike M on June 24, 2010, 10:36:58 AM
Got my desk defragmented and uninstalled the software, but I think my software CD got ruined, as my computer can't read it anymore. :pinch: Is anyone here familiar with any good TV viewing software that's free and works with ATI tuners and Windows XP?
Do you have Windows Media Center? and is it possible if you can get a new software installation CD?
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Re: Tuner skips while recording
« Reply #6 on: June 24, 2010, 12:24:03 PM »
I have media center but I could never get it to work with my tuner. I guess I could work with that again.
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Re: Tuner skips while recording
« Reply #7 on: June 25, 2010, 12:03:33 AM »
Quote from: Mike M on June 24, 2010, 10:36:58 AM
Got my desk defragmented and uninstalled the software, but I think my software CD got ruined, as my computer can't read it anymore. :pinch: Is anyone here familiar with any good TV viewing software that's free and works with ATI tuners and Windows XP?
Turns out it was something wrong with the drives. Anyways I got that fixed, reinstalled the software and it works now - no skipping. :)
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Re: Tuner skips while recording
« Reply #8 on: June 25, 2010, 04:50:37 AM »
Quote from: Mike M on June 25, 2010, 12:03:33 AM
Quote from: Mike M on June 24, 2010, 10:36:58 AM
Got my desk defragmented and uninstalled the software, but I think my software CD got ruined, as my computer can't read it anymore. :pinch: Is anyone here familiar with any good TV viewing software that's free and works with ATI tuners and Windows XP?
Turns out it was something wrong with the drives. Anyways I got that fixed, reinstalled the software and it works now - no skipping. :)
figures, drivers are usually the key issues here
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