AIW 800XL - Recording DVB ???

[OTR]

Have the above card in a newly setup DFI Lan party NF4 Mobo. 1 Gig of ram. Signal strength is 100%... and watching DVB is great! I have the very latest drivers and software. TV is version 9.13

Works fine when watching TV, but the main purpose of buying it was to record Digital TV.

I hit the record button and it creates a large *.mpg file (its set to DVD High). Most of the time, NO video is recorded only audio. It's very frustrating as I do no know what has happened until after the recording is finished!!!!!

I sometimes get a message saying something like "TV on demand is not compatible with this setup and video will not be recorded" I cannot see how to tuen TV on demand off!!

Records fine with analogue.... but i need digital!!

Anyone help please....

[SHISH]

Maybe your disk can`t run fast enough to handle that amount of video being thrown at it and sooner than drop most of the frames, it just isn`t writing the video?
Try turning the quality down and/or use a more compressed format. Video on demand seems to have changed in the latest version of the MMC and it seems to be activated by deafault as I notice I have around half an hour showing up on my slider when I`m watching tv.
Maybe reset the values in the preset where all the quality/videosoap etc is (where you set up what quality you want to record to) and also try it on scheduled instead of on demand, also with a lower setting.

[OTR]

Am trying a few things.... have just movied the recording of DTV to my fastest Drive. Western Digtal Raptor.... It does record now but quality is not too good.

Is it possible to turn OFF Tv-on-Demand.... ???

[SHISH]

I`ve gone back to the previous MMC cos the digital video seems to degrade after the first use.
Maybe try the previous one cos I certainly get a better recording.

[OTR]

Did not like the original software. Also had the same problem with that, that's why I installed the update.

Thanks for the info though.

Seems to be working OK now... only problem is when editing and re-coding to DivX .. Sync is lost in a non predictable way .. It' can be OK for the first few minutes then drifts out as the programme continues. Getting a wee bit frustrated, as I purchased a new mobo to run this card specifivally to record and convert TV to DivX.

The built in mpeg4 is not very good quality.

[SHISH]

Seem to remember something about a divx and video recode prog that had a fix for losing synch.
Mebbe look on one of the DVD prog sites for the software and fixes to download?
Sorry, can`t remember the link I used but I think I googled it.