WinFast PVR sucks!

[beatle]

Hopefully the joke's on me and I'm just missing a secret menu setting. Timeshifting does not work at all (locks up when trying to replay video) and audio capture has a problem with mp3 format (not a big deal). Scheduling baffles me the most. It keeps telling me that my schedules are overlapping. Example:

I schedule it to capture svideo every M-F, 7pm - 7:30pm. I then tell it to capture svideo tonight from 8pm - 9pm. When I click ok, it tells me the schedules are conflicting. I have to delete one of the schedules in order to add the other.

Any ideas as to getting this working properly or alternative software that will allow me to schedule multiple programs at different times?

 

[slpaulson]

Do you have the newest version of their software?

 

[NeoV]

I have the answer for you......SAGE TV

 

[meksta]

Use the best....mythtv

need to install linux though.

 

[beatle]

The new software did the trick in regards to scheduling. Timeshifting still crashes when I try to use it, and I still can't capture audio as mp3.

New drivers caused it to lock when I moved it to another monitor, even after enabling VMR9. Old drivers didn't have this problem, so I'm back to the old ones.

Does SageTV have a trial version? I'm not keen on dropping $80 on software that may not even work properly. I'm also not interested in installing Linux.

 

[Need4Speed]

Originally posted by: beatle
The new software did the trick in regards to scheduling. Timeshifting still crashes when I try to use it, and I still can't capture audio as mp3.

New drivers caused it to lock when I moved it to another monitor, even after enabling VMR9. Old drivers didn't have this problem, so I'm back to the old ones.

Does SageTV have a trial version? I'm not keen on dropping $80 on software that may not even work properly. I'm also not interested in installing Linux.

yeah sage has a trial

 

[Trey22]

Originally posted by: beatle
The new software did the trick in regards to scheduling. Timeshifting still crashes when I try to use it, and I still can't capture audio as mp3.<BR><BR>New drivers caused it to lock when I moved it to another monitor, even after enabling VMR9. Old drivers didn't have this problem, so I'm back to the old ones.<BR><BR>Does SageTV have a trial version? I'm not keen on dropping $80 on software that may not even work properly. I'm also not interested in installing Linux.

I found you have to dup your desktop to your tv... it's the only way I could get my replay of recorded stuff to play w/out locking up. I spent quite a while trying to "drag" the window over to the TV screen.