Video Problem

[krylon]

Hello everyone. First of all, would just like to introduce my self. I'm from California USA, and have been reading these forums for the last 3 days to try and find out how to use my video cards Video In Video out feature.


So, If anyone can help, that would be great.

I bought 2 geforce 7800GTX's, and am running them in SLI mode for gaming. I was reading the box the other day, and noted the VIVO support. So I assumed that I could simply hook up the S/Video Out from my cable box to the S/Video In on my Video card, install SageTV, and voilas!

Well, obviously I have assumed wrong I am guessing. As I have done all that I mentioned above, but get this message:

There was a playback error in playback details:
sage.PlaybackException: ERROR (4-0x80040266)
There was a problem rendering the video portion of the content for playback.

Do I need to purchase additional hardware to make this work? TIA for any replies.

krylon

[stanger89]

Most likely, Sage doesn't currently support so called "software encoder" cards. Basically it requires that your TV card have a chip that does the video compression. Your video card, does not. There are definite advantages to this, most noteably, ~0% cpu usage while recording.

I'd look at the Hauppauge PVR 150 (or 500) or the ATI Theater 550, Avermedia 150, etc. The Hauppauge cards are the most popular, and best supported (in general).

BTW, that must be a heck of a rig

[krylon]

Thanks for the quick Reply m8!! I went to the local frys electronics and picked up the PVR 150..

Much appreciated.. will test tonight and post results..