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Why does my tv cable playback freeze up on the computer screen
Hello. Need help with perplexing issue: I have a HP Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit computer hooked up to a cable box so I can watch cable tv on my computer using an external WinTV-HVR-950Q tv tuner. Suddenly, the tv playback freezes after a few minutes. To make it go again, I have to press the box "stop playback" and then "tv" and it starts up again, but freezes after a few minutes. To attempt to fix it, I downloaded the latest 2013 drivers & software from the Hauppauge website. In the Hauppauge tv tool bar, I'm using the default settings for video renderer, which is "EVR" & I check the box that says "use hardware accelleration when possible." Hauppauge tech support had no other suggestions for why this is happening. Does anyone have any other ideas on how to fix this? I might have to go out and get another tv tuner and they are expensive. Could a Microsoft update have somehow screwed up the playback? My cable signals have been checked & are fine. Thanks for any suggestions.