XP AverMedia M780 Gigabyte GA-MA69GM SD Content Freeze

[jkotran]

Hello,

I am new to Sage, HTPC, etc, but I am an experienced techie. I setup a new, modern computer with XP and Sage 6.2.10. When I view Live TV the picture freezes after a second or so. Sage and Windows are OK. I can access menus, change channels, etc without problem. All of my drivers and firmware are up to date. I ran disk and benchmark utilities to confirm that nothing is wrong with my setup.

On a whim I tested this same setup with Vista. Everything works just fine. However, I bought my Vista seat for another computer. It costs too much to buy another seat.

Any ideas?

Joe Kotran

P.S. AMD X2 4600+
2GB RAM
Gigabyte GA-MA69GM-S2H
AverMedia M780 tuner

P.P.S. My setup is clean / factory new. I have no extra software, codecs, etc.

[BFisher]

sorry I don't have much to share other than I too have the M780 tuner (2 of them), with a Giga Mobo, 2 GB Ram, but an Intel Quad processor. I've had no real issues to speak of (minor stuff, but so far I've been able to fix them).

running .19 of the M780 driver...

[trini0]

When do the freezes happen?
I have a M780 also.
Since I moved my SD content from dish to analog cable, I've noticed at some TV show break points (when one show ends and the other begins), it will either freeze for a second, or it will replay the last couple of seconds of the previous program, but at a high speed.
For now its random, and I can't think of a way to reproduce the problem.

[jkotran]

Originally Posted by trini0

When do the freezes happen?

I can reproduce the freeze every time I activate live TV. The TV picture freezes after one or two seconds of video. All else is fine. I can access the Sage menus, etc.