[mythtv-users] Stability problems when watching live tv

Patrick Benton patrickb at umich.edu
Tue Feb 18 04:29:12 UTC 2003


On Monday, February 17, 2003, at 10:13 PM, Pierre-Olivier Bouchard 
wrote:

> Patrick Benton <patrickb at umich.edu> wrote:
>
>> The system doesn't crash under normal use, but I also had video 
>> capture
>> stability problems with WinXP
>
> Hmm, I would have said to check your bttv drivers, but then... It 
> might be a faulty/crappy capture card, you didn't mention which one 
> you were using...

Oops!  forgot to mention that...  Hauppage WinTV dbx 401.

>
> You could try taking it back to the store and getting another one, you 
> may have a faulty sample, I don't see how capture problems could 
> happen on both systems if all the other things are fine.
>
It was an ebay purchase, so I'm pretty much stuck with it.  I'll do 
some comparison tests between linux and windows and see what happens.

Patrick



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