Creative VideoBlaster DVCR

[Narflex]

LPC,

If the audio's off in a constant way, there's an audio delay setting in setup you can use to correct it.

You can use the Creative Remote, just go into Detailed Setup->Commands and link the buttons on the remote to commands in SageTV.

[MarcAronson]

I have a copy of the hacked drivers for the creative DVCR card and I attempted to do some recording with it. I was using the DVCR application that comes bundled with the creative card. It created 720x480 streams at 32KHZ. I used MYDVD v4 to create a DVD -- MYDVD took care of re-sampling the audio. I was able to create DVDs in some cased, but with some recordings I ran into the following problems:

1. When using "best", MYDVD would reject the recording with the msg "bit rate too high for DVD". I ran bitrate on the file and found that the peak bit rate was just a bit of 9200kbps for video. Is anyone else having this problem? Can the bitrate be contained?

2. When using "better", the video quality was very poor.

Any thoughts?

Marc

[Narflex]

Try using SageRecorder or SageTV to create the files.

[rfutscher]

I have a Video Blaster but can't use it because my computer is a multi proscessor and the Creative software won't work.

Will the Sage Software work in a multi proscessor system?

Will the Sage Software work if the Creative software isn't installed?

[Narflex]

Sage will work in a multiprocessor system, the only reason it wouldn't is if the driver's for the Creative card won't work on a multiprocessor system. You will need to install the Creative drivers, but their software package doesn't need to be installed.

[JQuaglino]

Jeff,
I loaded the beta and had nothing but problems. I went back to the release addition, 1.14, I think and now I get constant mpegmux.ax crashes even on the settings that were safe before. Using NTSC (best), sagerecorder records for about 13 minutes and then crashes with the mpegmux.ax error.

Like I said, all was working fine. I haven't made any other changes to the system.

Additionally, when I reloaded 1.14, I got audio that was very slooooooow sounding. I installed SageTV demo and this was corrected. Does SageTV have to be installed for Sagerecorder to work correctly.

[dkardatzke]

SageTV and SageRecorder are two different applications and installing one does not affect the other. I'll let Jeff address the other comments/issues.

[Narflex]

You do need to be using the same version of SageRecorder and SageTV if you have both installed.

There's a new beta 1.2.5 out now which you should try. It should have no issues with the Creative card at all. If you have any problems with it, let me know and I"ll help you resolve them.

You should also do a clean install to be sure you don't have any old settings lying around, this will clear all of your settings for Sage, so don't do this unless that's OK. To clean Sage off completey, go to Add/Remove programs and remove it that way first. Then delete the C:\Program Files\Frey Technologies folder. That's it.

If you ever regress versions, you should always clean your settings out because the properties/databases are not backwards compatible. All settings for SageRecorder are in the SageRecorder.properties file. For SageTV all of the information is in the Sage.properties & Wiz.bin files.

Thanks,

[JQuaglino]

Jeff,
I'll give it a try and let you know. Any idea why I get the slow audio without SageTV installed?

[Narflex]

It has to do with a bug in V1.1.4 I'm pretty sure.

[JQuaglino]

Jeff,
I can get 1.14 to work if I choose to install the Provideo stuff. Then the audio works fine. Is there something wrong with doing it that way. I tried the beta but I have horrible audio/video sync issues with it. I haven't tried the beta with the Provideo extras.

Wiping out everything seems to have solved the mpegmux.ax crashes. Thanks!

[Narflex]

Nope, nothing wrong with that. If it works for you, go with it.