I've got a 1.5 GHz P4 with 640 MB RAM, and 3 PVR150 MCE's. In just about every recording there will be a segment where the recording skips a few minutes (i.e. it's like someone hit the fast forward while recording). It usually seems to happen when another recording is either beginning or ending, but not always. I thought it had to do with the amount of traffic over the bus to the HD, so I started tweaking PCI Latency settings, but nothing seems to help. I've looked at the Hauppauge drivers, and even started archiving my recordings to another drive on another bus each night to reduce traffic when I'm watching existing recordings and recording shows. I have also begun defragging my HD about once a week in case that was the issue. I'm not sure if this is the right place to put this, but I was wondering if people with multiple tuners have also run into this issue, and what steps they went through to fix it. I didn't have any issues with this when I had just 2 tuners (I was also on a P3 with 256MB of RAM at the time too). I also didn't know if switching to PVRX2.exe had something to do it.
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Multiple Tuners = occational skips
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2008-02-03, 12:25 PM
This might be the PVR150 time stamp bug: http://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.php?t=14006
2008-02-03, 09:07 PM
I've had that issue before, but I did recently rebuild my box, so I'll check the drivers to make sure I put the right ones back on. When I had the time stamp issue previously it would happen a lot more frequently and skip forward and backward did not work correctly. I don't have that problem now. How can I go back to using GBPVR.exe instead of PVRX2.exe? I thought maybe I would try that to see if it fixes the problem, but I wasn't sure how to do it.
2008-02-04, 08:55 AM
GBPVR.exe is in the devnz\gbpvr folder. Just run it.
C2Duo E8400, 4GB, GE8600GT, PCH A-100, HVR2200, NPVR 1.5.31, Win 7 x64.
2008-02-04, 05:32 PM
Thanks for your post. I guess that will work for testing purposes. If it does seem to do the trick, how do I get gbpvr to launch it instead of pvrx2.exe? I don't typically watch tv on my pc, I use my MVP. GBPVR automatically launches PVRX2.exe for me.
2008-02-04, 06:30 PM
I had a similar issue - but it was the recording that had the 'fast forward' issue (playback in VLC and Media Center Classic also did the 'fast forward'). I went bonkers trying all sorts of stuff to resolve the issue.
It ended up being a (new) hard drive that eventually crashed on me. I got Seagate to replace the drive and the issue went away.
[SIZE="1"]GBPVR Media Center: 2 TwinHan DTV 3250's (OTA HD), 1 PVR150MCE U-Verse STB), AMD 3200+, 1 GB RAM, 250/300 GB HDDs, ATI x800
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2008-02-05, 06:12 PM
That's an interesting thought I haven't tried. I've been using the same HD in my pc for the past 2 years. I just got a new HD that I've been using to archive my recordings on. I'll try setting it up as the main HD for new recordings and see if it still skips. Thanks for the idea!
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