PC Peripherals Vista media center taking too long to change TV channels

[PaulBarber]

I'm using vista media center with pinnacle 50i tuner card. Everything's working fine, but it is taking too much time to change TV channels. Meaning when I press the channel up button when watching one TV channel, it takes 2 seconds to switch to the next one.

It's very irritating and impossible to quickly browse through the channels. Anyone else facing this issue?..any solutions?

 

[KingKrool]

I think this might be an issue with your TV tuner rather than media center.

 

[SumitB]

Ensure that your TV Tuner connected to USB 2.0 interface.

 

[cricfan]

tuner card....plugged into usb 2.0....

 

[ch@ts]

it's the tv tuner card...i've got the same one. it takes about 3-4 seconds to switch channels, nothing you can do about it.
btw guys, it's an internal card...pci...not usb.

 

[vivekbabbudelhi]

50i uses a software MPEG-2 encoder ....right

software MPEG-2 encoder here is the culprit....

 

[SumitB]

oops sorry, I misread 50i as 50e

Yeah, its your tuner thats causing the problem.

 

[greenhorn]

yup, the newer pinnacle tuners do take longer to switch channels. Its a bit annoying , since my older PCTV Stereo can do it faster than my 110i. Needless to say, the old one is used more these days

 

[cricfan]

my 7130 chip based card.....scans 80 odd channels within 7-8 sec max in dscaler....but doesnt get detected by mce.

 

[PaulBarber]

But in the TV tuner application supplied by Pinnacle, it changes channels much faster than in Media Center (less than a second). That's why I suspect Media Center is the problem.

BTW any other good TV tuner applications?. The one that came with the card is absolute bloatware..no useful features as such...and so bloody damn slow

Tried Chris TV but didnt like it very much. I am a big fan of GeexBox but it doesnt seem to like my card. My older BT 878 based card used to work with Geexbox.

 

[mod-the-pc]

50i uses a software MPEG-2 encoder ....right
software MPEG-2 encoder here is the culprit....

I don't think so. The encoder comes into the picture only while capturing video.

 

[clown_abhi]

This problem usually happens if u use ur Pinnacle or manufacturer remote with media center. U have several options in media center to set the IR speed as Slow, medium or Fast which should resolve this problem.
Else use a Media Center Remote and u can change channels in a sec.

As for the PVR, i like WinDVR3 for TV viewing and capturing than Chris TV.

 

[greenhorn]

@ abhi, he's using a media center remote

 

[clown_abhi]

If u are using a Media Center Remote, change the IR speed settings and see which one works for U. Probably, Slow should work fine.