Bouncing video

[Wheemer]

720 x 768?? I've never heard reference to that resolution before.

Well it's going to have to be a trade off somewhere for me. I can't run 720x480 without changing the aspect ratio settings to stretch the horizontal to fit the tv. So that'll degrade video performance... And if I run 800 x 600 I can keep a normal aspect ratio percentage but it still has to resize the captured video to fit. So I'm at a loss as to which is the right way to do this...

I'm going to try the 100% aspect ratio percentage adjustment soon, however the client is down right now, so I'll report back on if that helped or not...

Thanks for the suggestions guys!

[GARDEN]

I think to have the same kind of problem: when I record with SageTV in DivX quality I get "bumps and green flashes" on the recording. Bumps means that the image hiccups for few seconds.

I have seen they are perfectly in cycle (24 seconds the full cycle):
Second 1 to 8 the image starts hiccupping and with "green flashes"
second 9 to 24 no problem
second 25 the cycle starts again without ever stopping.

The "pulse" doesn't come from any external device or electric line as I do not get it with other capturing software.

I have tried to set a different decoder through "detailed setup" but nothing changes.
I tried a different refresh rate of my video card Nvidia Gforce AGP440 MX and no success.
I have got no tuner.

This is my hardware:
AMD Athlon XP 2200+ 1.81 Ghz
Ram 2048 MB
Windows Xp Professional with Service Pack2
Video card NVIDIA
Plextor ConvertX M402U

I hope in your suggestions . . . .

[something fishy]

The 1 sec stutters are exactly what I get on tickers using the nVDVD (1.00.67) decoders plus on "normmal" video material I also get what looks like a complete breakdown of deinterlacing - as though I'm using weave (rather than any of the nVidia automatic/smart modes).

This is on my dedicated Sage box which is a 2GHz P4 on an Intel 848 mobo (6600GT XP2sp2 512Mb ram). My desktop machine (6800GT P4 3.06GHz on 845 with 1024Mb is smooth as silk).

In my case overlay works well - sorry that it isn't useable in your case.

[Wheemer]

have you tired the quartz.dll swap, sound like what you describe as deinterlacing breaking down.

[something fishy]

I reinstated the quartz.dll (1917KB) file as instructed on these boards on my PVR as a first step. It made no difference. My stutter free desktop machine is a standard sp2 upgrade so its quartz.dll is 1258KB.

My belief is that this is an issue within Sage - other programs don't suffer this problem playing the PVR250's recordings and Sage doesn't seem to stutter playing DVDs.

Cheers

Eric

[willemse]

I have done some testing and discovered that stuttering occurs at different aspect ratio settings. Quality settings do not affect stutter pattern.
See attachment for results