Very frustrated with this recorder

[newone88]

It has been 5 months since I have purchased this software. It works ok but I'm getting very frustrated with few things

1- Every time I record from my sling either local or remote, the first minute or so comes with audio only and no video. I tried hundreds of times and from different computers and different networks and still the same.

2- I can watch slingbox for hours without interruption of audio or video and my stream is consistent at around 900 kbps to 1.2 Mbps. I have a very fast internet connection with high download bandwidth yet every recording I make there is audio and video freeze for 10-15 seconds. It dose not matter if the recording is 2 minutes or 2 hours, there is always freeze somewhere in the recording. Please don't tell me this is because of my internet connection because as I mentioned above, I can watch the sling streams for hours without any interruption.

3- Converting the ASF is a big pain. If I use any convertor out there, I get an audio synch problem. I have to encode the video in windows media encoder first (audio has to be CBR) and then I can convert it to other formats.

I hope that I will get a better answer to my questions other than your internet connection might be the problem.

[floydj]

I use the At-Large recorder regularly without problems, but I do have to slow down the stream rate within the program to get acceptable recordings. I have slowed my rate to 300 kbs, but have not experimented with higher rates.

The resulting recording is very viewable - but I am just looking for entertainment, not perfection.

I have seen others complain about the ASF conversion problem. However, I don't need to convert, I have not worried about it.

There have been rumors about a new version of the software. Perhaps it will address your concerns. There is not ETA for the new software; but since it is approaching two years since the last update, it is about time for the next release to appear.

Floyd

It has been 5 months since I have purchased this software. It works ok but I'm getting very frustrated with few things

1- Every time I record from my sling either local or remote, the first minute or so comes with audio only and no video. I tried hundreds of times and from different computers and different networks and still the same.

2- I can watch slingbox for hours without interruption of audio or video and my stream is consistent at around 900 kbps to 1.2 Mbps. I have a very fast internet connection with high download bandwidth yet every recording I make there is audio and video freeze for 10-15 seconds. It dose not matter if the recording is 2 minutes or 2 hours, there is always freeze somewhere in the recording. Please don't tell me this is because of my internet connection because as I mentioned above, I can watch the sling streams for hours without any interruption.

3- Converting the ASF is a big pain. If I use any convertor out there, I get an audio synch problem. I have to encode the video in windows media encoder first (audio has to be CBR) and then I can convert it to other formats.

[newone88]

Thanks Floyd for the reply. How do you slow down the rate? Do you go into the advance settings? I use their default setting right now.
You are not talking about the slingbox itself, right?
let me know

[floydj]

Thanks Floyd for the reply. How do you slow down the rate? Do you go into the advance settings? I use their default setting right now.
You are not talking about the slingbox itself, right?
let me know

It is in the "Advanced Settings". I just went to verify this and saw that I am using 400 bps on my Vista laptop. I think the 300 number I quoted earlier was on an older Win XP machine. Depending on the speed of your system, you may want to experiment just a bit.

Here is a picture of my settings on the Vista machine:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3293/3080771494_a4c9d5a98a_m.jpg

Let me know if this helps.

Floyd

[newone88]

Thanks again Floyd.
I played with the video bit rate before but did not go that low. it seems to be ok but I still need to do more tweaking and testing.
Now If i can find another way of converting the asf file....:mad:

Thanks again