Comskip = Choppy Video?

[Pilot]

I'm probably just overloading my machine, but I recently enabled the Comskip options after upgrading to GBPVR v0.94.13. Everything worked great -- excellent success rate at marking the commercials and such. However, this was also the first time that I encountered choppy video where about 5-10 seconds of video seems to be playing at a faster speed. This was on 5 different shows on three different channels and the choppy stuff showed up seemingly at random throughout the entire 7-hour recording period. .

Now, admittedly, I'm running a P4/1.8ghz, 512mb RAM, one 160GB hard drive (internal and another 200gb external as needed), a PVR150 and a PVR500 (so a total of three tuners). In my recording schedule (especially this day I'm talking about above), all three tuner cards could be recording at the same time. I did notice that with three instances of Comskip running, my CPU is bogged down quite a bit more than usual, even with three cards recording at the same time. Am I probably just overloading my system with this type of recording pattern + the additional burden of Comskip? Is there a better way for me to use the Comskip function that won't result in the video problem?

[sub]

Have you configured it to run during the recording, or after the recording?

[Pilot]

Sorry -- left that important bit of information out. I have it set to run during the recording.

I take it that after is probably better than during. If I set it to run after, does it run immediately after or can a time be set for it to run? Otherwise, if it occurs immediately after, it could still affect the video in the next recording(s), right?

[sub]

'after' will run them one at a time, with no more than one copy of comskip running at a time. I suspect you machine will cope much better with this.

[Pilot]

Sounds like that will be the new plan! Thanks, Sub!

[Pioneer4x4]

Also with several recordings happening at once, they will be inherantly fragmented, almost interleaved...
Something else to look into.