HVR-1600

[RonH]

I ordered a PVR-150 to use with SageTV, but Hauppauge substituted a HVR-1600. I got it working but the video is choppy. I have a Athon 2.4G processor with 512M ram, and I'm using the MediaMVP to drive the TV. The CPU usage is about 50% most of the time, but I have seen it as high as 95%. Note I got the HVR-1600 working with SageTV but I haven't been able to get the software that came with it working.

Has any else used the HVR-1600? Can anyone tell me what CPU usage the PVR-150 has with a similar setup?

If I cannot get it working better than this I am going to send it back.

[flavius]

Are you recording mpeg's - or something else? In general: the HVR-Tuner is a pretty new product, isn't it? Which means if there are driver issues it can potentially take several month to sort those out ..

[RonH]

It is very new. I believe I am using mpg2 format (DVD setup).

I just took the HVR-1600 card out and put in an old WinTV (no hardware encoding) card it. It looks better and is about the same on CPU usage (50%).

[RonH]

I got a PVR-150 and eveything is working great. It uses less than 5% of the CPU.

[jprine01]

I bought a PVR 150 from Frys Electronics in the box was a HVR 1600.
I can't get the software that came with it to work either. But I did get sage to work with analog cable and hd over the air, then it stopped working when i added another tuner. I am going to end up returning it for a regular pvr 150 or go for something else.

[SHS]

Try the latest WinTV2000 Hybrid
http://www.shspvr.com/smf/index.php?board=80.0

[scavenge]

Hi

check this thread

http://forums.sagetv.com/forums/show...light=hvr+1600

seems to suggest sage currently needs settings tweak on properties file to enable hardware encoding. Software encoding is maybe why you're getting choppiness

[kevpriest]

My HD recordings are .mpg files. I'm new to HD, but I was expecting .ts files. Am I just confused, or is something weird going on?

[naln]

Originally Posted by scavenge

Hi

check this thread

http://forums.sagetv.com/forums/show...light=hvr+1600

seems to suggest sage currently needs settings tweak on properties file to enable hardware encoding. Software encoding is maybe why you're getting choppiness

I think this is fixed in the new beta release...I don't have the HVR-1600, so can't check, but seems like the new RC fixes this problem-

[SHS]

kevpriest the HVR 1600 HD output recordings are .mpg files

[kevpriest]

Originally Posted by SHS

kevpriest the HVR 1600 HD output recordings are .mpg files

Thanks, SHS!