How to manually install the encoders from the CD

[edgley]

Hi,

I have been using the encoders that came with my DVD software for Sage.

If I wanted to use the ones that came on the orignal PVR250 CD, how do I just install them please?

Thanks,

Simon.

[mls]

You mean DECODER, not encoder.

Just put the CD in the machine and it should autorun and give you a selection list where you select what you want to install.

If it doesn't autorun, then find the setup file on the CD.

[carlgar]

I believe all you have to do is run the WinTV-PVR setup program. Then select the Install MPEG SW Decorders.
You can also go to the Hauppauge support page and get the WinTV video decoder update.

[edgley]

thanks.

Carlgar, how is your stability these days?

[carlgar]

I still average about 1 soft lockup per day. I am now seeing a pattern of the freeze, I then sleep sage and try again, then a directshow error, then sleep sage and SageTV seems to work. I can live with the soft lockup. I have not seen a sage related had lockup in quite a while.

[edgley]

So it is getting better, slightly, for you.

I admire your patience!

[carlgar]

Originally posted by edgley
So it is getting better, slightly, for you.

I admire your patience!

Just on the SageTV front. Currently, I am wondering if I still have a vacation home in Port Charlotte, FL .

[edgley]

I have friends living down there too, so my fingers are crossed.

[mls]

Originally posted by carlgar
I still average about 1 soft lockup per day. I am now seeing a pattern of the freeze, I then sleep sage and try again, then a directshow error, then sleep sage and SageTV seems to work. I can live with the soft lockup. I have not seen a sage related had lockup in quite a while.

Must be that 350 causing problems.

I don't have one, but I am running a Roslyn, 2 PVR-250's, and a USB2 and I only get a lock up maybe once a week.

And that seems to have narrowed down to certain decoders I've been switching between.

Then again, I didn't have any problems at all until I added the Roslyn (still thinking about pulling that thing back out and replacing it with a 250).

[carlgar]

I have been assuming that it is the 350. However, lately I have been looking at the system task as the source of the problems. The system task at times seems to take over the CPU. I wish I knew what the system task is supposed to do.

[edgley]

I've just had a google for an answer, and can not find one.

[mls]

Have you disabled system restore? That makes backups every so often which could add to both CPU and hard drive load.

I feel that system restore is pretty useless and seldom works right anyway, so I've always turned it off right after a clean install.

Windows Auto-update could be another one kicking in every now and then.

I've changed a LOT of Microsoft's "brain dead" defaults right away to avoid the other disruptions in performance they cause. That's probably why I rarely have any lock up problems (since I turn off everything I can that doesn't need to be running in the background that might interfere).

[carlgar]

I just turned off the system restore.
I do use Windows auto-update, but I don't think it is a problem(except for the new constant reminder to reboot the system).
I would turn off a lot of the defaults if I knew what they did. I am just too lazy to investigate them.

Thanks for the suggestions

[stanger89]

Originally posted by carlgar
I just turned off the system restore.
I do use Windows auto-update, but I don't think it is a problem(except for the new constant reminder to reboot the system).
I would turn off a lot of the defaults if I knew what they did. I am just too lazy to investigate them.

Thanks for the suggestions

http://www.blackviper.com/WinXP/servicecfg.htm

I'd disable auto update if I were you, I just don't trust it (I've installed drivers off windows update that hosed things), I'd rather manually do it.