GBRecord - not keeping up

[klunde]

Hi,

I have computer with four PVR-500 cards and a batch file that loops five recordings each hour around the clock. For some strange reason one hour about each day is smaller than it should be (it should be about 1.3Gb) and when I watch these smaller files it suddenly just jumps over some minutes and then continues. Whenever this happens it happens to all five recordings at the same time.

Anyone know if this is an issue with the cards or the software (gbrecord.exe)

[pBS]

sounds like the drivers again...almost like the timeline issue so many are having problems with..i think with some drivers it's a performance issue or audio dropouts...
what version pvr drivers are you using? and why are you recording so much!?
i've seen the timeline issues with just one card with some drivers,and even with drivers that work perfectly on single cards they sometimes have problems with multiple cards... now that i think about it,it may be hard-drive buffering issues...
recording that much at once is sending a lot of file data to the hard drives at once,and windows/your disk subsystem may not be keeping up...
possibly because something else is needing processing time or disk access when recording..see if you can catch the processor load when it happens...
the best ones i know of are pvr_2.0.24.23035
[pal users don't seem to have these problems tho, only ntsc]
hope that helps...
ever tried recording all tuners at once? [8 at once i assume]
if it's a performance issue that should ferret it out..

[klunde]

I'm a PAL user... and yes I've tested recording with all eight channels at once, but I have not been running 24/7 with more than 5. The strange thing here is that this happens at different times and when it happens it happens to all five recordings. Ie. today my 0900-1000 recording was only 580 Mb instead of the regular 1.3Gb. on the 19th the 2200-2300 recording was 527Mb, on the 18th my 0200-0300 recording was 1.08Gb etc.

As you can see there is not only a small glitch in the recording, sometimes it has lost more than half the recording time, while other time only a few minutes.

This computer doesn't do anything else than recording so the CPU is mostly at 1%... and it has a hardware raid controller recording to a raid-5 disk.

[sub]

Wow, thats a lot of cards. What are you using 24x7 recording for? Nothing commercial I hope...

[klunde]

Why do you hope that?

[klunde]

...
the best ones i know of are pvr_2.0.24.23035

When installing these drivers, what version of the WinTV-PVR 150 Installer would you suggest that I try?

(I Have v2.2.22292, .2.2.23070, 2.2.23257 and 2.3.123355)

[sub]

Why do you hope that?

Because when I wrote this software, I made sure I included a license agreement that stated it was for personal, non-commercial use.

[ShiningDragon]

Because when I wrote this software, I made sure I included a license agreement that stated it was for personal, non-commercial use.

LOL ROFL LOL ROFL :p