On Friday 02 December 2005 12:01 pm, CityK wrote: > Michael Krufky wrote: > > I have a wierd issue, however, with DViCO's windows > > software. Sometimes Fox 5 (WNYW_DT) shows up, and other > > times it does not. Some times, choosing WNYW_DT, only > > gives me WWOR ... yuck! > > Hehe - the user forums on AVS are just packed with people > complaining about the ineptitude of Dvico's windows > software. Unfortunately, Dvico's giving their hardware > a bad name simply because many users can't make the > distinction that its the software that sucks. Actually the DViCO Windows application works well with a clean signal from the station. The local NBC station has a very dirty switch. Sometimes the first few frames of the HD program arrive in SD. When the signal is switched between network feed and local programming garbage seems to be put on the Transport Stream. This is the only time I see an image pixelate. The sound has dead spots for a while as it tries to get into sync. (The SPIF sound is decoded by a Denon digital receiver not the computer.) After up to 10- seconds of this it works fine until the next commercial break. Occasionally (once or twice a day) this will crash the DViCO application. It appears that the DViCO application does not protect itself from bad data and assumes all data is within spec. The NBC station also crashes the application that comes with the Hauppauge WinTV-HD card I bought 3 years ago when it switches between network and remote feeds. Back then the only thing available in HD was the Tonight Show. It seldom got through more than a couple of switches before windows required a reboot. I never saw an entire show without rebooting my computer at least once at a commercial break. This application reinforces the "break" in commercial break. The Hauppauge application is unusable. The DViCO application is usually the only thing affected and it can be killed with task manager and restarted without rebooting Windows. --Mac
