dab sounds worse than fm

I've had a DEC2000t for a few months now, and when I resize the window by
say going from a normal window size to full-screen, or vice versa, then it
sometimes hangs, which requires restarting the software. Also, with nothing
else running on my PC, when recording a film or something it occasionally
hangs then as well even though I'm not doing anything on the PC.

I can't remember ever having any problems listening to or recording radio
using it.

I'm using the following:

Windows XP
Athlon 700 MHz CPU
256 MB RAM
ATI Expert at Work 8 MB graphics card

Does anybody know what it might be that causes the application to hang? In
particular, which out of the CPU, RAM or graphics card is likely to cause
the problem? My graphics card in particular could do with being upgraded, do
you think this might solve it, or would I need to get a faster CPU, or more
RAM?

TIA


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neil deadman

I had these problems with a P4 2.5G 512Mb RAM and 32Mb Graphics Card so I
doubt it would be the cause but upgrading may well help other areas!!

I changed mine to a Sony Freeview STB and Nebula DigiTV PCI Card. I can now
record one digital channel and watch another!!

And they both give me better reliability as DEC used to have to have power
disconnected regularly!!

Neil

dab sounds worse than fm

Oh dear.

Watching that Pompeii thing on BBC1 last night in full-screen mode there
were slight disturbances in reception, and on a number of occasions it
seemed to be teetering on the edge of hanging, but managed to carry on, so
I'm wondering whether it might hang when there are reception problems? I
recorded Gladiator on Sunday night while watching ITV on my TV and had the
DEC2000 app on the monitor so that I could see if it hung and there was
absolutely nothing else running on the PC and then all of a sudden it hung
for no apparent reason (although I wasn't watching the screen when it hung),
so maybe when reception goes dodgy it can't handle it?


Thanks for the info anyway.


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joefish

On 21 Oct 2003, "DAB sounds worse than FM"


Are you using the latest software, 2.16 beta from
www.hauppauge.de ? It seems more robust than previous versions.
Run setup.exe twice, first to remove the previous version. Your
channel list is preserved. If the installer hangs, look in task
manager. There`s a process called decode, or decompress, which
sometimes doesn`t exit properly. Remove it with right-click >
End Process Tree and the install should then continue.

dab sounds worse than fm

Yes, but I only installed it yesterday so I can't say how much it has
affected it. The application has hung since I installed it.

Have you upgraded your firmware for the newer German firmware v1.05? I've
read that some people have upgraded their firmware to this, but it says on
http://www.hauppauge.de/sw_dec.htm that it's for Germany only.

Do you know how much effect having a graphics card with a large memory (say
128 MB) have on this problem? Mine only has 8 MB of video RAM, and the other
poster that replied said he's got 32 MB so I'm wondering whether a card with
128 MB would make a difference?

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joefish

On 21 Oct 2003, "DAB sounds worse than FM"

Yes, I upgraded it. But don`t do it if you use the rf aerial
output to the TV - it probably won`t work.


You don`t need a mega quality card. I`m running two 1152x864
monitors on an old 32MB Matrox G400, and I don`t have any probs
with video memory. You could try reducing the colour depth.

Since my last post I`ve noticed the same problem you described -
hanging when changing window modes. So it seems the software is
still not as robust as it should be.

dab sounds worse than fm

I don't use the RF aerial output to the TV any more, but I think I will sack
off changing the firmware in case I do want to use it in the future, or if I
sell it on.

Yeah, I've had similar advice regarding video RAM size on alt.radio.digital too.

It's a bit of a joke really innit. Hauppauge specialise in TV products on
PCs and they can't even get the sodding thing working properly.


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joefish

On 22 Oct 2003, "DAB sounds worse than FM"

Let`s hope they get there eventually, but let`s not hold our
breath..

dab sounds worse than fm

Indeed.


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coron

I was gonna buy the dec 2000 thing but hear all this about them arsing up,
is it worth bothering, are they all crap?
how well does it work just with a tv?