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bloodrayne
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I just bought a WinTV PVR card and installed it in my system (Pentium III 1000Mhz 512MB RAM ATI Radeon card) but I can't get it working correctly with Windows XP.
I followed Hauppauge's XP installation guide step-by-step. The drivers / applications I downloaded and installed are:
- w2kdrv311.exe
- pvrpcidrv15_19300.exe
- wintv2k331.exe
Basically there're two problems:
- When I rebooted the system after the installation I got an error saying that my card doesn't support DirectDraw, but this doesn't seem to affect the card functions (besides that, as far as I know ATI Radeon XP drivers do support DirectDraw)
- When I capture an MPEG-2 movie, the risulting video is not smooth, the picture keeps "freezing" for about a second every 10 - 15 seconds. This problem seems to get worse as the mpeg-2 bitrate increases: at 4mbit/sec there're only a few frames "freezed" every 10 - 15 seconds of video, while at 12mb/sec the number of freezed frames is much higher.
I want to point out that this problem is not related to my hard drive transfer rate since I used to have another capture card with which I was able to capture at bitrates as high as 32mbit/sec without losing a frame. Moreover, if I run the WinTV PVR under Windows Millennium (installed on the same system) I don't get these "freezed" frames.
What can I do to fix this problem and why is the DirectDraw support not detected? Are there any compatibility issue with ATI Radeon based cards ? Anybody experiencing these problems with a WinTV PVR card and XP?
Thanks for your Help!
I followed Hauppauge's XP installation guide step-by-step. The drivers / applications I downloaded and installed are:
- w2kdrv311.exe
- pvrpcidrv15_19300.exe
- wintv2k331.exe
Basically there're two problems:
- When I rebooted the system after the installation I got an error saying that my card doesn't support DirectDraw, but this doesn't seem to affect the card functions (besides that, as far as I know ATI Radeon XP drivers do support DirectDraw)
- When I capture an MPEG-2 movie, the risulting video is not smooth, the picture keeps "freezing" for about a second every 10 - 15 seconds. This problem seems to get worse as the mpeg-2 bitrate increases: at 4mbit/sec there're only a few frames "freezed" every 10 - 15 seconds of video, while at 12mb/sec the number of freezed frames is much higher.
I want to point out that this problem is not related to my hard drive transfer rate since I used to have another capture card with which I was able to capture at bitrates as high as 32mbit/sec without losing a frame. Moreover, if I run the WinTV PVR under Windows Millennium (installed on the same system) I don't get these "freezed" frames.
What can I do to fix this problem and why is the DirectDraw support not detected? Are there any compatibility issue with ATI Radeon based cards ? Anybody experiencing these problems with a WinTV PVR card and XP?
Thanks for your Help!
