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TV tuner card - Audio lags behind video

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imported_Uwe

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I recently installed a Hauppauge WinTV-PVR-150 MCE. After about 20 ? 30 minutes the audio from the channels gets out of synch with the video. The audio lags behind the video significantly. At first I thought it might have been the MS automatic updates so I turned them off, that did not resolve the problem.

I checked the minimum requirements for the card
Link

System Requirements

System requirements: Pentium® III processor 1.2GHz or faster, 128MB RAM and 10GB disk drive minimum recommended

Microsoft® Windows® XP Media Center Edition 2005 or later with installed MPEG decoder (see Microsoft's Media Center website for information on certified decoders), or Windows XP Service Pack 2

Available PCI slot

The system I have the TV card in is a 1.8Ghz Duron, 524mb RAM DDR2100, and a Voodoo5 5500. I am running WindowsXP Pro SP2. My sound card is a Creative 5.1 LIVE.

Thanks,

Uwe
 
Minimum requirement does not allow you to get a best performance. Guess your memory resource used up by other applications by reseved duties. Question now is weather your operating system is balancing or stabilizing the entire 'tasks' to equalize the operation properly to be uniform or not. So, check your system tray first! 🙂
 
Thanks Marulee,

Actually there is nothing running in my system tray during the whole time it runs. I have no apps running other than the program that runs the TV card. It runs fine for 20-30 minutes then it starts to lag. I know the Duron chip is cache deficient. I guess my only recourse is to try it in my "fast" system an XP3200 with a vanilla nVidia 6600.

I did wonder if the old Voodoo video card was the hold up but that wouldn't make sense as the audio is what is lagging. The drivers I have from Creative for my sound card are as up to date as they are ever going to get.

The wife complained about my recent hint of upgrading my system but at this stage of hardware I have I've hit a wall for doing "stealth" upgrades by purchasing a component every once in a while. Sometimes she noticed sometimes she didn't in the past. Now I'm forced to purchase almost all new parts at one time and she'd sh!t at something like a $500 purchase...

*sigh*

Uwe
 
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