2009-06-08, 10:36 AM
Is it me (as a relative newbie to DVB-S - I've been happily using GBPVR for analogue for three years) or is the digital recording process fragile?
What I mean is that when starting or pausing playback, or doing much else that involves a fair amount of IO, disk activity jumps and any ongoing recordings can not only show horrible pixellation, they quite often break. This means they're unplayable after the point in time when I paused or started playback of that or another recording. I lost the first 20 minutes of last weekend's F1 race that way (no great loss, some would say )...
My PVR PC is fairly low-specced for energy/heat reduction purposes but this does not seem to be a CPU-related but an IO-related issue. So the question is: has anyone else found this, and/or found a fix or amelioration?
One thought: is maybe the fact that both DVB-S tuners are on the PCI (not PCIe) bus an issue here?
Thanks again for the application of all this GBPVR experience and brainpower...
What I mean is that when starting or pausing playback, or doing much else that involves a fair amount of IO, disk activity jumps and any ongoing recordings can not only show horrible pixellation, they quite often break. This means they're unplayable after the point in time when I paused or started playback of that or another recording. I lost the first 20 minutes of last weekend's F1 race that way (no great loss, some would say )...
My PVR PC is fairly low-specced for energy/heat reduction purposes but this does not seem to be a CPU-related but an IO-related issue. So the question is: has anyone else found this, and/or found a fix or amelioration?
One thought: is maybe the fact that both DVB-S tuners are on the PCI (not PCIe) bus an issue here?
Thanks again for the application of all this GBPVR experience and brainpower...
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- Noisy NAS: Xeon / Intel mobo / 16GB RAM / FreeNAS + Ubuntu VMs on VMware ESXi + 12TB RAID[/SIZE] running Plex Media Server