2009-03-22, 02:32 AM
My problem is that if I record two HD digitial programs at once (which I assume is not re-encoding, but rather a direct stream copy) they will both be fine up until around 45-50 minutes, then they both begin to skip. Sometimes the skipping goes away a short time before the end of the program (55-58 minutes), but usually it does not.
It doesn't appear to be a processor speed issue (using very little CPU as reported in task manager) and if it were a disk / io issue it would show up as soon as I start recording, right?
I disabled comskip to make sure it wasn't running, and I have checked to make sure nothing is running in the background.
This doesn't happen when recording 2 analogue, or 1 of each (to the best of my knowledge).
System:
Vista business (not SP1 as when I upgrade to SP1 my system becomes unstable, perfectly stable without SP1).
MB = FOXCONN A7GM-S AM2+ 780G RT
CPU = AMD|A64 X2 5050E 2.6G AM2 RT
Capture card = Hauppauge 2250
4 Gigs of DDR3 Memory (sorry, don't remember the speed, think its 800 mhz)
1 500 gb SATA (150 I think, not 300).
If it is a disk transfer / seek issue, and I were to add a second disk, is there a way to tie separate tuners to separate disks (so tuner 1, analog or digital records on disk 1, and tuner 2 on disk 2)??? If not, this would be an awesome option.
I would really like to resolve this as I was hoping to add another card so that I could possible record 3 or 4 shows (I only watch a half dozen shows, but they all seem to come on at the same times).
Thank you for reading.
It doesn't appear to be a processor speed issue (using very little CPU as reported in task manager) and if it were a disk / io issue it would show up as soon as I start recording, right?
I disabled comskip to make sure it wasn't running, and I have checked to make sure nothing is running in the background.
This doesn't happen when recording 2 analogue, or 1 of each (to the best of my knowledge).
System:
Vista business (not SP1 as when I upgrade to SP1 my system becomes unstable, perfectly stable without SP1).
MB = FOXCONN A7GM-S AM2+ 780G RT
CPU = AMD|A64 X2 5050E 2.6G AM2 RT
Capture card = Hauppauge 2250
4 Gigs of DDR3 Memory (sorry, don't remember the speed, think its 800 mhz)
1 500 gb SATA (150 I think, not 300).
If it is a disk transfer / seek issue, and I were to add a second disk, is there a way to tie separate tuners to separate disks (so tuner 1, analog or digital records on disk 1, and tuner 2 on disk 2)??? If not, this would be an awesome option.
I would really like to resolve this as I was hoping to add another card so that I could possible record 3 or 4 shows (I only watch a half dozen shows, but they all seem to come on at the same times).
Thank you for reading.