HDTV playback: WMP=perfect, SAGE=stutters

[awhiteguy]

Hi, I'm new to the forum and to SAGETV. I came over from mediaportal to get STB firewire capture support. I'm very impressed with the product (after installing sagemc STV).

So here is my problem: I can capture HD content great, but when I play the recording back, sometimes it stutters. Well, not really stutters but the audio drops out randomly for a split second. The video is fine.

I can exit sage and playback the same recording in windows media player 9 and it is absolutely perfect. No audio dropouts whatsoever.

So here is my question: What's the difference? Why is the playback poor in sage, but great in WMP?

Here are the specs:

Hardware:
ASUS A8N-SLI Premium
A64 3200+
768MB PC3200
Nvidia 6600GT
120GB WD for OS
200GB Seagate for sage storage (64k clusters)
WinTV 150
Firewire via SA 3250HD STB
Silverstone Lascala SST-LC10B-M

Software:
XP Pro SP2 (clean install)
Nvidia purevideo codecs (audio and video)
VMR9, FSE on, DXVA

I have tried each DXVA mode with FSE on or off, but get the same results. Any suggestions? Thanks,

-awhiteguy

[shawncochran]

Just for fun, switch to overlay renderer instead of VMR9 and see if that clears it up.

[awhiteguy]

I actually tried that too, but I couldn't get overlay to work at all. It gave an exception error when I tried to playback a recording. Is there something else you have to change to make overlay work?

According to the nVidia codec properties, it is using VMR9 when I playback a file in WMP.