picture loss every half hour

[Scootastrophe]

Hello,
I'm having a couple small (but frustrating) issues with my gbpvr. Every half hour, I lose picture and sound for about 1.5 seconds. It happens at the top and bottom of every hour. I am assuming that it is related to the tuner card restarting the recording file or something. This started with 1.0.8 and has continued to 1.0.16. I did a clean install of 1.0.8 and 1.0.16

My computer is no slouch, its a P4 2ghz with 512 Mb RAM. There is nothing else running (except Mcafee). Any help with this issue would be appreciated, thank you!

SB

[sub]

This is normal if you're using timeshift mode. It stops the current file, then starts playing the new file.

If you have live preview enabled then you wont see this.

[Scootastrophe]

Please forgive my ignorance, but what's the difference and what are the ramifications of enabling live preview mode?

[whurlston]

Live preview mode does not cache to hard drive which means that you cannot rewind from the point at which you are currently viewing. If you hit pause, GB-PVR will exit live preview mode and start caching from that point onward in the show. It will return to live preview mode when you switch channels.

[Scootastrophe]

Thank you for the explanation.

Is there anyway to speed up the change over between files? I guess I'm looking for the best of both worlds...

[sub]

No, not really. It already tries to do it as fast as it can.