sage converting ota HD trouble

[Homebuilder]

Hi,
Just set up a network encoder sage machine to record ota HD. Play back is very rough taking up alot of CPU so I decided to convert to mpeg4.

Of the three that I tried to convert, one converted and it played great and the video picture was comparable to the original file and much better than the SD comcast cable version file.

But... the other two didnt convert. They tried, but they had errors or something.

Any idea why they didnt convert? Any suggestions on how to make them convert?

Also... any way to make sage automatically convert recordings?

[SWKerr]

What kind of video card are you using? This may be setup issue with your playback. What codec etc. Have you tried to playback the file in another program. I would expect that a mp4 would use more cpu than the raw OTA signal.

Also:
How does the playback look on the machine that the capture card is on?

OTA signal can be somewhat inconsistent. I have a problem with Multi-path at my house and the signal will drop in and out sometimes depending on the weather and station.

I have had network encoding machine sending OTA content before so I know it will work.

[Homebuilder]

Originally Posted by SWKerr

What kind of video card are you using? This may be setup issue with your playback. What codec etc. Have you tried to playback the file in another program. I would expect that a mp4 would use more cpu than the raw OTA signal.

Also:
How does the playback look on the machine that the capture card is on?

OTA signal can be somewhat inconsistent. I have a problem with Multi-path at my house and the signal will drop in and out sometimes depending on the weather and station.

I have had network encoding machine sending OTA content before so I know it will work.

The video card on the client is built into the MB, nvidea chip. Suppose to handle HD, and it does play, it just uses a great deal of CPU power on the client so things like fast forward take 20 seconds to engage once the button is pushed.

When I have converted the raw mpeg HD from ota ( 8 gig) to a mp4 at about 1 or 2 gig, it plays fine. So what I want is to convert the original recording to mpg4 but for some reason I am having trouble with that on the network recorder computer.

Any suggestions? Any way to automatically convert all files from a series? could be like a favorites option...