James Lamont schrieb:
I spent countless hours trying to get VDR running with a DXR3 on a mainboard with an MVP3 chipset. The problem I had was more or less exactly as you described but worse.
Watching live TV was fine but any hard disk or network activity caused glitches, both in the recording and on the live display.
I tried all sorts of things to fix it, increased buffer sizes, upgraded drivers, messed with PCI latency settings, changed network cards, overclocked the CPU, etc etc. Nothing seemed to help much. It just seemed to be a PCI bandwidth problem and there was nothing I could do about it.
Well, even with the KT133 chipset, I needed this for being able to *just view* progs live on the ARD transponder:
setpci -s 00:00.0 latency_timer=0
I haven't tested the MVP3 w/o above, but I guess this is no better.
Eventually I gave up and switched to a mainboard with a BX chipset. All the problems went away (until I added a second dvb card, but thats another story)
Unfortunately I mostly have Via crap lying around here. Only my main machine has nforce2... I also have some Intel TX chips lying around, but I guess CPU (~166MHz) isn't strong enough. :-/
Well, thanx for sharing your experiences. I at least now now that I am not alone with this.