TV Card behaving strangely

[andy37142]

I had a Compro PVR TV card but exchanged it for a Tevion DVB-T 100 PCI TV card. Obviously I uninstalled everything to do with the Compro card before I installed it.
The Tevion card's picture quality is excellent and the recording facility is good too. The recordings are .mpg files. The problem is when I try to playback video. I can play back video fine on the Tevion interface and also on Cyberlink Power DVD. If I try to play them on Windows Media Player or DivX player the recordings are slow motion and stuttery and I can't exit from the recording i.e CTRL. ALT, DEL doesn't work and the machine locks up and I have to reboot. The Tevion website is no help at all and my emails go unanswered. Anyone offer any suggestions please?
Thanks
andy37142

[jmkeuning]

Have you installed the most recent DivX drivers? I do not know if this will solve the probs with app differentiation but it is a place to start.

[andy37142]

Thanks for your reply.
The answer is I do not know - I hardly use DiVx. I am more concerned about the recording not playing in Windows Media Player 10 because if I can't play the recording in WMP10 I can't recode in Windows Movie Maker and burn it to DVD like I could with the Compro card.
Could it be something to do with the fact that the Compro card was analogue and the Tevion card is digital?
Thanks
andy37142

[Whyzman]

I'm wondering if your card records in MPEG 2 ...

"However, MPEG-1 system streams do not exclusively use the .mpg and .mpeg extensions. MPEG-2 program streams also frequently use .mpg and .mpeg file extensions, but they contain MPEG-2-encoded video. Because Microsoft Windows operating systems provide only an MPEG-1 video decoder, Windows Media Player cannot play MPEG-2 program streams without an additional MPEG-2 video decoder (also known as a DVD decoder pack) installed."

[andy37142]

Yes, it does record in MPEG2. I didn't realise that WMP10 only supported MPEG1. Many thanks for pointing this out and that seems to be my problem.

'without an additional MPEG-2 video decoder'
I am not at all au fait with the various video formats, there are so many. Can this MPEG-2 video decoder be downloaded from anywhere for free or do I have to buy it to enable my TV card to play recordings in WMP10 and then transcoded in Windows Movie Maker.
Many thanks
andy37142:) :)

[Whyzman]

Don't know much about it, but here's a MS link with the dvd decoder packs:

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/player/plugins.aspx

[Whyzman]

This looks like a good article:

http://www.pctoday.com/Editorial/article.asp?article=articles/2004/t0205/27t05/27t05.asp

[andy37142]

I have now sourced and downloaded a codec pack that makes WMP10 work with the Tevion TV Card.
Many thanks to everyone for their assistance.
andy37142

[Whyzman]

That's what we love to hear! :)