Occational Skip/Choppy Video - FIXED

[pbb]

I've tried several "tweaks" to my system to resolve an occational skip/choppy video issue. The skip doesn't happen all the time, but at least once in each video. I tried increasing the pci latency on my box, defragging my hard drive. I even separated my 2 drives onto 2 different buses. I had heard that if your drive was going bad that it might skip, so I started recording on my new(er) drive. I'm sure these things helped, but none resolved my issue. The only thing that fixed it was to increase the process priority to RealTime for the gbpvr recording service. I also increased the priority for the mvp to Above Normal, but that shouldn't affect the recording. You have to download a tool to change the priority - at least I couldn't change it right in Task Manager (probably has to do with the account the service is running under). I used ProcessExplorer to do this. I should also emphasize that this is all I use this pc for, and I always watch video on the MVP.

[TornadoTJ]

So you were able to narrow down the issue to the recordings instead of the playback?

This is something I've been working on (admittedly in my very little free time) and I've gotten it to where it's 99.9% fixed. I believe my remaining issues are in the recordings instead of the playback as well, thanks for the report I'll give this a shot.

[pbb]

Yes, I opened the mpg directly on the machine (I also tried it on another machine) with Windows Media Player. I found the skip was still there at the same time as when I was watching it on the MVP.