2015-05-15, 09:06 PM
I mean, it works remarkably well almost all the time... until you really NEED it...
Two weeks ago, I was going to record a never-released-before-in-HD movie (AFAIK)... OK, not the best movie in the world, but funny nevertheless, strange, sci-fi and with great actors... The Adventures of Pluto Nash... well, my capture card record it flawlessly for five minutes, then it goes banana, and continually stop, rec, blocked image, stop, rec etc... I cried (literally) because I waited that moment for a week... no, not an antenna problem, I watched the whole movie on the TV, so... after that, I discovered that the decoder used for the HDTV - which is AVC - was faulty... while the MPEG2 was perfect; of course, I haven't discovered it before, because this was my first attempt to record an HDTV program - and the previous tests, made some hours before, were OK, maybe due to lower bitrate, dunno...
Well, after that bad accident, I was lucky enough to record several other programs, all available in HD, but just to rewatch them later, and never had a bad frame after that, so... wow, I'm lucky, after all, I thought... classic, I was wrong... yesterday, or, better, today, at 4a.m., another great movie still not available on HD, The Night Flier... I stopped any program, shut down the PC twenty minutes before, just to run it "fresh", and guess what? Windows decided to NOT load... not properly, not even in safe mode... nothing... the damn Windows loading image, and then reset, and again and again... movie started, and half an hour after I was still trying to resurrect the PC... gone to sleep, crying again... today, luckily, I found a way (after many useless other ways) to make it work again...
Now, this night there is another not-in-HD movie (title will remain a secret, until I have it safe and sound recorded on my HD), so please, touch wood, prey, wish me luck... anything, but this night I MUST find the way to record it - properly - with no problems...
Two weeks ago, I was going to record a never-released-before-in-HD movie (AFAIK)... OK, not the best movie in the world, but funny nevertheless, strange, sci-fi and with great actors... The Adventures of Pluto Nash... well, my capture card record it flawlessly for five minutes, then it goes banana, and continually stop, rec, blocked image, stop, rec etc... I cried (literally) because I waited that moment for a week... no, not an antenna problem, I watched the whole movie on the TV, so... after that, I discovered that the decoder used for the HDTV - which is AVC - was faulty... while the MPEG2 was perfect; of course, I haven't discovered it before, because this was my first attempt to record an HDTV program - and the previous tests, made some hours before, were OK, maybe due to lower bitrate, dunno...
Well, after that bad accident, I was lucky enough to record several other programs, all available in HD, but just to rewatch them later, and never had a bad frame after that, so... wow, I'm lucky, after all, I thought... classic, I was wrong... yesterday, or, better, today, at 4a.m., another great movie still not available on HD, The Night Flier... I stopped any program, shut down the PC twenty minutes before, just to run it "fresh", and guess what? Windows decided to NOT load... not properly, not even in safe mode... nothing... the damn Windows loading image, and then reset, and again and again... movie started, and half an hour after I was still trying to resurrect the PC... gone to sleep, crying again... today, luckily, I found a way (after many useless other ways) to make it work again...
Now, this night there is another not-in-HD movie (title will remain a secret, until I have it safe and sound recorded on my HD), so please, touch wood, prey, wish me luck... anything, but this night I MUST find the way to record it - properly - with no problems...
