An Ordeal - Migrating from VMC to SageTV (Calling Ghostlobster)

[T^2]

I have the Nvidia 8200 IGP. The connection to my HDTV is via HDMI.

I repost my system info:

Acer x1200
AMD Athlon X2 64 4850e
Nvidia 8200 IGP
Aver M780 (came with generic MCE remote and blaster)
ATI 650
Vista Home Premium x64
Comcast STB - Motorola DCT-2224

I can't see why my IGP would be a problem. It works fine with the same tuners/hardware/content in VMC. I can also playback everything fine in graphstudio (both content recorded with SageTV and VMC).

[h2guy]

@Thaddeusz - thank you so much for your setup advice. I'm using the Cyberlink decoders for both mpeg2 and mpeg4 playback. For x.264 encoded mkv contained videos (tested both 720p & 1080p), i'm getting 2-7% CPU utilization!
Sage-recorded mpeg2 HDTV videos (recorded at DVD Standard level) are using a little more CPU, 7-15%. Is this consistent w/ your testing? I'm not so concerned of the absolute numbers (since we have different hardware), but rather the relative difference in mpeg2 and mpeg4 utilization.

@Opus4 - This is on 6.5.4 beta, FWIW. A readme or other addendum to the documentation would be helpful for future EVR & DXVA configuration.

[Taddeusz]

Yea, I don't know why but MPEG2 playback takes more CPU than MPEG4. I suppose there is more GPU offload for MPEG4 video.

[popechild]

Originally Posted by T^2

I didn't realize that I wasn't graphstudio x64. I downloaded that and started playing around. I can playback recorded Sagetv live tv video with graphstudio x64 and it plays perfectly. However, I get no sound with Microsoft MPEG-1/DD Audio Decoder. There are no AC3 filters available to choose from in graphstudio x64. I can select FFDShow and use it for AC3, which give me sound and video plays back perfectly. Is it possible that I have a AC3/Vista x64 issue?

I'm not sure if you meant to respond to my post or not, but it doesn't appear that you tried anything I suggested if so. If you're wanting me to try to help you, please try what I suggested. I don't know a thing about graphstudio, never mentioned an MPEG-1 decoder, and specifically suggested trying to not utilize FFDShow at all. Everything I'm suggesting you try are within the Sage application itself. If you want to try out the combination of settings I suggested and get back to me, I'll be happy to try to help. If not, or if you're responding to someone else and didn't mean to quote my post, that's fine also, but I won't be of any help to you.

[eMajor]

T^2, did you ever get this resolved? I'm having the exact same problem. Recordings made by Sage stutters badly, but are silky smooth in WMP.

4850e
Vista64
EVR w/ PDVD8
ATI 3470
4GB RAM