MyHD MDP-130 - Page 413

Muse,

I might have a little insight on your lip-sync issue.

There is one station in my area, WBBZ, that carries two subchannels, one a 4:3 copy of the main
and THiS. It is remote even for Welland and Fort Erie and I've noticed that when I'm just on the brink
of losing the signal, there occurs l-s problems but as soon as an inversion hits or some other weather
phenom the signal strength improves and l-s problem disappears.

It also occurs on a couple of weaker Canadian stations that haven't learned their lesson on power levels.
So for me it is the quality of the incoming signal that determines when it happens.

Ah, well, with me when a lip synch issue comes up (and I almost never watch live TV, only timeshifted TV) I can fix it by pressing the pause button (or play button, AFAIK they have the same function in MyHD, it just toggles pause/play on each press) multiple times. Just how many times varies considerably. Sometimes when I'm lucky it's maybe 6-7 times. Often its more like 10 times, maybe more. I never know how many times. Of course doing that is quite annoying, it interrupts the process, the experience. Often I give up before I get a perfect synch, I make do with an acceptable synch. I mean it's like how much annoyance am i going to put up with to achieve a perfect synch when I'm going to lose it again if I REW or FFD at some point. I never know if I'm going to lose synch when I REW or FFD, it happens sometimes but not usually, then I have to resynch if I can't stand it. Of course, some kinds of programs it's not something you notice because you aren't watching people talking! I've seen people saying here (Terry, I think) that they've never experienced any lip synch issues using MyHD, which has me thinking that it's equipment related, my motherboard in particular. I suppose that my PCI sound card is a possible contributing factor, it's drivers. I've tried several versions of the driver but that didn't turn out to be a solution. I'm due for a new motherboard. Thanks for that post you made a few weeks ago, Browncoat, suggesting CPU/mobo combinations, the AMD, etc. I'm going to look into that. If the motherboard is reasonably upgradable, I think I'll go that route. Really, my desktop PCs are pretty antiquated. Indeed my HTPC has only 2GB RAM. My impression is that the MyHD cards don't use system resources, that they use their own resources, in particular processing power, one thing I really like.

I was going to try using a DVI daughter card in my 130 and noticed the only PCI slot is at the far end of my MB where the 130 is located. The rest are PCIe slots and no way to move my card over. Is there any way for this daughter card to be installed on the other side of the 130 with a jumper cable?

If this can happen is there any problem running 1080p with the pass through?
Edited by lovebohn - 3/30/13 at 7:19pm

The daughter card does not need a PCI (or any) slot. It just needs the paddleboard I/O slot on the back of the case, of which there is often one beyond the end of the motherboard. Take another look and you'll probably find that you can mount the daughter board on the MDP-130 hanging over the side of the motherboard in that "extra" I/O slot on the case.

EDIT: Yes, you can pass through the 1080p (or even higher rez) desktop image.

Sorry if that came out wrong. I agree it doesn't need a spot on the MB just an open slot to the right (if your looking at the card). On my MB the only PCI slot is the last position and no room past it. This is a Intel DQ35JO board. I guess I'm SOL on this feature?

The case doesn't have any room past this since it's at the very bottom

I see the problem...your case is too short. If you were to put that motherboard into a full tower case you'd have the room needed for the daughter board, but that's likely not an option I suppose.

I have no idea if you could fashion a workable jumper cable and put the daughter board on the other side of the MDP-130. It might work, but the extra inductance of the longer wires might mess things up also.

I'm probably missing something really obvious here, but I'm getting the (setting time is overlapped) error when trying to schedule a program to record on Ant 1, while another program is scheduled to record at the same time on Ant 2.

Ideas?

The "obvious" thing that you're missing is that you only have one tuner to share between those two antennas.

D'OH!

Stupid brian damage!!!



Thanks Terry.