Older system with TV Tuner

[elzmaddy]

I'm trying to get a Leadtek Winfast 2000XP TV Tuner card working on my friends HP Pavilion 6730 (600MHz, 192MB RAM, 10GB, Intel 810 integrated sound and 4MB video). We put in the HP recovery disk to reinstall Windows 98 to original factory settings. Everything is now working fine except my friend tells me the TV Tuner is still giving him stalls. I believe what he means by that is that the tuner software is using nearly 100% CPU. I'm guessing this means that his video card cannot handle the bandwith of the TV stream. Will a new video card with more memory help? He doesn't have an AGP slot so it would have to be PCI. Would the PCI bus be able to handle it? If you think its a good idea, what would you recommend from this newegg list of PCI cards here? Thanks!

 

[StraightPipe]

What Kind of system?

 

[elzmaddy]

HP Pavilion 6730 (600MHz, 192MB RAM, 10GB, Intel 810 integrated sound and 4MB video).

 

[elzmaddy]

bump

 

[luminantlapis]

Matrox's vid card is good at this aspect

 

[elzmaddy]

Can someone recommend a good cheap PCI card? The ATI OEM RADEON 7000 32MB DDR DVI/CRT/TV PCI for $41 looks good to me.

 

[MulLa]

I doubt it's the power of his machine that's holding it back. I believe the minimum requirement for the Winfast 2000XP is much lower than what you've specified. What excatly is he trying to do? I mean encoding to MPEG2 would probably be out of the question.

At home I've got the Winfast 2000XP running in my spare machine with the following spec:
Celeron 300A (non-oc'ed on an LX mainboard)
384MB RAM
30G 7200rpm HDD
4MB i740 graphics.

I can watch TV fine on it and even capture to MPEG1 lowest quality without any frame skips. Now your friend's machine is WAY faster than what I have here.

 

[DSE]

Looks like a pretty bare machine, have you tried changing PCI slots to what is most likely the only other slot in the system?

 

[Confused]

I used to use my Hauppauge WinTV Primio with an AMD K6-233MHz machine with a Matrox Mystique 220 4mb PCI vid card, and it was fine, even in full screen, providing of course I wasn't recording to hard drive 😉


Confused

 

[vegetation]

I had tv tuner wintv stuff running on my old p166, and in fact, still do.

 

[luminantlapis]

Matrox G200 PCI or 3Dlabs Permedia 3,But these cards are out of date, their 3D performance are nearly none.