Vista - Media Center TV Playback

I tried Vista Home Premium on my home entertainment pc. I noticed a lag when
watching television in Media Center. I used the default mpeg plug in that
came with Vista Premium and the default TV card drives. Would it be better
to use a 3rd party mpeg decoder? Like PowerDVD for example? My machine is a
Dell E510 3gh P4 with 2 gig of 677mhz ram. A EVGA 7900 GS PCI express card
and a Hauppauge analog TV tuner. This worked fine with XP MCE.

Thanks for any info,
Greg

Have you checked at the Dell Web site to be sure that you have latest Vista
drivers for your laptops tuner and graphics "card"?
Do you get delays in both audio and video or only in video? If both make
sure you have the latest vista drivers for your sound "card also.
I don't think the decoder is at all related to your problem since you are
not using a HDTV tuner.

"Greg" <greg@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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Its a desktop. I'm using the latest video drivers from the NVIDIA website.
The video is the only one that is choppy.

Since the memory is managed differently and its pounding the hard drive for
the first little bit till it has been defragged, do you think that may be
part of the cause?


"JW" <JW@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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If you record a program and then play it back in MC do you still have the
problem?
If you play back the recorded program in Media Player instead of MC do you
have the problem?
Do you have any problem playing DVD's in MC?
How much memory is on on your PCI-express card?
do you have Aero enabled on your Vista system?

"Greg" <greg@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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I can't answer those questions. I need to run some tests before I can answer
them. But those are good questions and will help me narrow down the problem.


"JW" <JW@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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