Short recordings

[MarkM2000]

Hello, first post here. Excellent programme very professional, thanks to everyone who contributed. I've gone from Mythtv to Media Portal to Showshifter and finally to here.

Anyway, I had hoped to post a solution to a problem I was having with short length recordings. I have narrowed down the problem, in my case, to noise on my DVB reception; turning lights etc on and off in the house caused a glitch in the picture and sometimes the picture to freeze and never recover when watching live TV or when recording the file size just stopped getting bigger.
I went out and bought a surge/spike protector that I used to protect the booster amplifier that is in the loft.
This helped but has not completely solved the problem.
I've tried re-making all the co-ax connections, better shielding of the Nova-T (909) card to the case and more direct earthing of the PC PSU power cable.
None of these things has solved my issue.
So I was wondering if this could be a driver issue where it is unable to recover from the glitch or a slight instability in GBPVR (no offence meant). The problem never happened when I was using Showshifter but that was using different application (obviously) and the older, non-BDA, drivers. Which makes it difficult for me to pin down the cause.
If anyone has any suggestions I'd be glad to hear them.
Thanks in advance,
Mark.

[MarkM2000]

Hello,
I thought I would add this in case it helps anyone out in the future.
After trying several more things, masthead amplifier, shorter co-ax cable, external aerial, etc but none of these really helped.
Apparently Showshifter could be used with BDA driver also. I tried this and had the exact same problem as with GB-PVR.
I re-installed Showshifter with the older drivers and every thing ran OK.
I then discovered that quickly removing and re-connecting the aerial with the BDA drivers caused Live TV to crash but with the older type drivers the application was able to recover.
Therefore to me it looked like it was a problem with the BDA drivvers for the 909 card.
To cut a long story short; I took a chance and bought a new Nova-T hoping to get the 90002 Connexant card.
After installing this and everything now runs fine.
As I say I hope this helps someone out.
regards