2005-06-04, 01:02 AM
OK, so I got home after work today to check how my PVR recordings worked for the day. All of them seemed fine except for one, which had moments that felt like there was some crazy fast forwarding going on.
Since it only happened to one recording, I had a suspicion of what happened.
Me: Kids, what were you doing around 4:45, just before I got home?
Kid: Playing Sims 2...
I'm guessing that if you have an app eating up all the CPU cycles, then GB-PVR (or rather my PVR-150) can have some lossy data collection. I'm running a Sempron 2500+ with 512MB of RAM for reference.
Is there any way to remedy this? I'm going to change the priority of the GBPVRTray.exe to "High" using the Windows Task Manager as an experiment, but even if this does work the process won't start up in high priority after a reboot.
Does anyone have any ideas about this? Experience with mangled recordings while another intense CPU process is going on in the foreground?
Since it only happened to one recording, I had a suspicion of what happened.
Me: Kids, what were you doing around 4:45, just before I got home?
Kid: Playing Sims 2...
I'm guessing that if you have an app eating up all the CPU cycles, then GB-PVR (or rather my PVR-150) can have some lossy data collection. I'm running a Sempron 2500+ with 512MB of RAM for reference.
Is there any way to remedy this? I'm going to change the priority of the GBPVRTray.exe to "High" using the Windows Task Manager as an experiment, but even if this does work the process won't start up in high priority after a reboot.
Does anyone have any ideas about this? Experience with mangled recordings while another intense CPU process is going on in the foreground?