Mac Michaels wrote: > I don't have cable ... > > 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, if your interested, or haven't already, give WatchHDTV (http://mysite.verizon.net/watchhdtv/home/ ) to see how it runs for you. -- Cheers, CK
