ATI Radeon 7500 clock stabilty and video recordings

[asee0041]

I often record Tennis matches from my TV into my PC but only the first clip is ok.The subsequent clips are blur with big pixels the size of postage stamps.
After going into Control Panel,Classic View,ATI Multimedia center,System Compatiblity Check on DVD and TV mode,i had the following notice: 1 item warned.Sound card with clock stability 0.65%.(+-0.2% is acceptable!) On checking ATI's website it was classified as poor sound card stability.I tried contacting ATI for help since a month ago and 2 days ago,but they did not reply.I even downloaded their catalyst 3.2 but it only messed up my PC!
I thought it was because i was having my DVD in PIO but after having changed it to UDMA2,it still did not improve.(This was ATI's suggestion but it didn't help much.By the way, in my Primary IDE,I have my hard disk performing at UDMA5 as master,there is no slave) So it seems i have a faulty card but it might be something else.Any comments?


(My specs:ASUS P4PE/LAN/1304/SATA-UAY/INTEL845PE CHIPSET/DDR333,PENTIUM 4,60GB,256 DDR RAM,WINDOWS XP SP1,ATI RADEON 7500/64MB RAM.)

[RayH]

I don't have any problems recording TV (San Francisco, CA) with my ATI AIW Radeon 7500, except when the cable itself is giving poor reception.

I have a +/-.38%. No biggie. The sound is in sync. The picture quality has nothing to do with sound. Try another setting. I've found the ATI settings to be the best.

Are you trying to record something deemed "copyrighted?"

[Peter M]

It seems you have problematic SOUND equipment there. The graphics card doesn't seem to be the problem at all.

[Xtreeme]

Yep- I agree Peter. My sound drivers were "updated" during windows update program. Welp after that my tv was 1 fram slide show junk. I reloaded the Nvidia sound drivers- WHAM right back to working like a dream again. Sound is the problem. When cpaturing tv it trys to sync the sound and video. Also deinterlacing if used. So if sound is skiping-be sure the video will just the same. Bf 1942 game example. My sound set wrong in gmae settings it stutters terribly. When sound set right-runs smooth as butter. Why-sound must sync somwhat. It was slowing down video till sound was in-sync. Id update sound drivers.

[asee0041]

Thanks to RayH and Extreeme.I record tennis matches so i can safely assume it is not "Copyrighted" .
When i record a clip lasting 20 seconds and stop and record another clip for 10 seconds,the second clip is full of large pixels.But if totally close the TV pane and open again for 10 mins, both first and second are of excellent quality.So i msut totally close the TV pane in between recordings which is ridiculous!Maybe i have a defective ATI card!ATI hasn't answered my questions since 1st Dec!
Here are my specs:

WINDOWS XP SP1,HOME EDITION/VERSION 5.1.2600

ASUS P4PE/ACPI BIOS REVISION 1002/LAN/1394/Intel845PE Chipset/DDR333/DDR RAM/10/100 LAN-ATA 133..S/PDIF,

ATI RADEON 7500 All In Wonder 64MB/AGP/NA/NTSC/AGP4X/2X/ BUS..BUILT BY ATI

INTEL PENTIUM 4 CPU 2.40GHz/2405MHz

Local Disk: 60 GB MAXTOR 6Y60L0

256 DDR RAM

SONY CD RW CRX220E1
SONY DVD DDU1621

I updated the necessary drivers straight from ATI and it (like my first time) messed up PC like mad.I don't think i like the latest drivers.Here is what i have now:
DirectX 09.00.0902
Windows Media Encoder 9.0
Both the above are precursors to downloading the Catalyst 3.9 display drivers.
In the end,my pc went nuts!I could not activate my TV pane and i had to use System resore to get back to normal!(Maybe i should downloaded the ASUS drivers but i am reluctant as they might mess up my PC,horrors!??)
Funny thing was that i was asked to insert my ATI cd towards the end but it was already in !Ejecting and inserting it in again and other countless variations did not help much except make me feel bananas!
Anymore suggestions??

[Peter M]

That latter problem very obviously is a software glitch, not a hardware defect.

[asee0041]

Thanks PeterM but how can i tell whether it is a software or hardware problem?I had a DMA problem and someone advised me to check if the jumpers were installed properly(hardware problem) but it was solved by uninstalling/installing the device in Device Manager(software problem).Going to BIOS didn't help unfortunatedly.I have informed ATI of my queries and they never bothered to reply,yeah ,so much for good customer service!It is all a show and nothing but lies.

[Xtreeme]

"ASUS P4PE/ACPI BIOS REVISION 1002"


I built my buddy a rig with that mobo. Hate to say it but it has some sound issues withthe onbaord audio. HTe SOUNDMAX to be exact. Try updating the soundmax drivers at Intel website. Before that update your mobo drivers. Intel.inf update is what its called.Yours is the !845 chipset. Recently we upgraded him form Windows ME to XP. Ahhhh-driver issues galoure with the sound. He still dont have it tackled yet. Madden 2004 just crashes everytime you exit a game followed by a infinate sound loop. "SOUND DRIVES hanging". Im assuming your issue is similar. Meaning-its really your sound chip causing most of this 10:1 odds. He can madden 2002 (not 2004) to run with sound accell. set one notch down. Try it on yours for the tv prog problems. Hit >start>run>dxdiag

You are useing the all in wonder drivers right? Cause they are diff then the standalone tv drivers for my TV wonder VE. The readme during install lists supported products. There are two versions of tuner drivers. One for yours-one for mine.

Keep us updated.

[asee0041]

Thanks Xtreeme for the quick reply.Will try out your suggestions Mon Evening.By the way,is ATI so lousy in customer service?I hope others can read this and think twice before buying especially when they have tech problems !

[Xtreeme]

Actually his tv wonder Ve works in that rig. But he's got a ti4200. My combo.....Asus A7N8X deluxe/radeon 9800 and Tv wonder Ve works. I dont think its a ati issue. More of a mobo issue with your ati.