i have had a winfast expert for some time, and apart from the poor audio on the TV tuner and Fm, i am qute happy with it, but in the last week or so, whenever i try to record anything, and play it back in WMP ther is no audio, and it stutters and freezes, and if i try to burn direct to DVD, the resulting DVD will not play. so to try a different method, i downloaded the trial of WinDVR, and installed it, and now, when i tune in the TV, I get audio for all the channels, but the video is BLACK. Any ideas????
Hello bobbych, I'm getting pretty good results with my WinFast TV200XP Expert and I'm really not sure why you are getting poor audio except the DVD captured audio is in Mpeg1 Layer 2 instead of Digital. I guess your driver and PVR might somehow corrupted after all this while and I would suggest that you download the latest driver and PVR which will support hibernate (S3) mode as well. Please do not use WinDVR 3.0 anymore as it is not compatible with latest Leadtek driver. Hey, one thing that you might want to checkout is to make sure that your TV Tuner is place in the PCI slot that is not sharing the same IRQ with your PC networking, graphic card and audio card or you will end up with hardware conflicts. Lastly, change the 'master streaming' setting of your new PVR to video instead of audio and that will rectify video/audio synchronization problem. Hey, try the trial version of Ulead DVD Factory 3 Disc Creator as it works fine with your TV Tuner on both capture and trimming input videos as well.
cheers for the reply. i have unloaded, and re-installed the ew drivers and PVR, and all seems to work ok, however the sound is still very poor. but whenever i record to DVD either direct, or via mpeg file the resulting DVD jumps. still, i will get there someday
Hello bobbych, Please do not use DVD direct burn because you will sure to get lagging even with a super computer. So far the DVD optimun works great for me and in some cases where users are on P3 with limited HDD space, I would suggest that they change the 'video display quality' settings to normal instead of optimal to get smooth video. May I know where did you connect the audio cable to ? aux or CD-in??
Oh I see, My audio is fine even on my old PC where the audio is incorporated to my Motherboard so I presume you should have better sound card than mine previously. Maybe what I would suggest is that when you are watching TV, take a look in your control panel audio control with your PVR on and see if the rest of the settings like 'synth', 'wave' are set to the desire level. Kindly, also look into the audio control in your PVR to see that the audio & playback level is set correctly.
