Cable Box causes stutter! Culprit found, solution still at large.

[judoGTI]

Okay, I found the source of the problem, but now I dont know how to fix it!

I receive a stutter every 1 minute on my HTPC. I have found that this occurs when my cable box (Scientific Atlantic Explorer 2000) changes the display time for each minute. So when my clock on the cable box goes from 9:10 to 9:11 I will then get a stutter/dropped frame in playback. I am connecting my cable box to the Hauppaggue PVR150 via S-Video.

Has anyone seen this before? How can I fix it?

Here is my setup:

Im running SageTV using DScaler for a deinterlacer, nVidia as a decoder and ffdshow (Andy's Aug1 Preview) to run some filters.

AMD64 2800+ (754) @2.4ghz
512MB RAM
Radeon 9550 256MB
Hauppaugge WintTV-PVR-150
XP Pro

Im very happy I found the cause, now the solution might take some time too.

[salsbst]

If you plug the S-video directly into a television, does it stutter every minute? If so, then tell your cable company to give you a new cable box.

If not, then you may be hot on the tail of a red herring.

[judoGTI]

Originally Posted by salsbst

If you plug the S-video directly into a television, does it stutter every minute? If so, then tell your cable company to give you a new cable box.

If not, then you may be hot on the tail of a red herring.

Well, it does not stutter when I use only the nVidia decoder, but when I use it in combination with FFDSHOW and DScaler Deinterlacer I get the stutter. I haven't tried it alone just going to the TV (It's such a PITA to get back there I might have a jack in front though)


I'm not sure what the phrase 'hot on the tail of a red herring' means?? Is it good?


-Brian

[Kanati]

It means you might be chasing ghosts... a non-existant bug... The wrong thing.