[Tom Brabenec]

I didn’t get the chance to type up something about this same exact issue, but I’m experiencing this as well. This is pretty well stated, only this happens not only with FME v3 w/ justin.tv but also occurs on https://www.ufragtv.com (which uses TikiLive).

Specs: Q6600, 8GB RAM, Vista x64, 8800GTS, Intensity Pro purchased at BuyDig early June.

So yes, after 10 minutes with the *new* 3.2 drivers for the BMI card, I now get frame drop. It increases over time, consistently, and after 30 minutes it drops to unacceptable levels. This happens with ANY settings and right now I’m thinking there was a bad batch of cards or something. I want to add that with the 3.1.2 drivers, there was less of a frame drop and more actual sound delay (or actually, the sound drifts AHEAD of the video) which progressed to dropped frames and eventually resulted in the same.

I’ve also tried this in my friends i7-equipped machine and end up with the same results. Baffling, since the card at first works flawlessly for a few minutes! So frustrating. Also to note, there are one or two others on ufragtv that use the BMI card without issues, and THEY are boggled by the situation as well, but I HAVE seen audio delay once or twice crop up in their casts.

I’m going to attempt to now test inside the Blackmagic Media Express app to see if I get the same. Not by recording, but just by watching the feed, which shouldn’t have much delay or frame drops *AT ALL*. If I remember correctly, my CPU never went above 20% using that app with any resolution when not recording to the HDD. I’ll update my status on this in a bit, but if anyone else has this card, I’d like to hear what hardware you’re using. (Gigabyte EP35-DS3P (P35 ICH9R Intel chipset))

I was also told over the phone by BlackMagic that I basically need to prove to them that there’s something wrong before they would process an RMA and exchange it. *boggle* – so yeah.. I’ll try.

Also to note, this happens with everything I’ve tried, which is component (360/ps3/8800GTS component dongle) and HDMI (DVI to HDMI from any PC) and I primarily use the input HD to SD down-conversion option. Not using it (and grabbing the full 720/1080 feed) is unusable and pointless for live casting anyway. Hopefully all this made enough sense. 🙂