Music Interference on Recording Start - Help Fix Please

[nurowolf]

Firstly let me say - I love this program. I have tried Meedio TV, SageTV, and BeyondTV. And while each of the programs listed have a few features that I would love to see in GB-PVR - not one of them was able to fully support my setup - that is except for GB-PVR. Great work SUB Thanks!!!!!

Now for a peski little problem that I would love to resolve.

I am using Meedio for my front-end and music managemt (amongst other functions) and GB-PVR for the PVR / Live TV Function.

For some reason - when a scheduled recording commences recording and I have a music file playing in Meedio - I get distortion that lasts for about 1.5 seconds and then the music returns to normal. I would love to work this out as this is the last peski problem I have (well at least until the next one pops up )



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For those interested - the setup that I could only get working with GB-PVR is as follows

XP Home SP2
PVR500MCE
- Tuner 1 = Free To Air Braodcast
- Tuner 2 = STB_1 Cable TV Source 1
- S-Video Tuner 1 = STB_2 Cable TV Source 2
External TV Changer = GlobalCache through Girder for both externa

While each of the other packages had some really cool features - or looked superb - none of them allowed me to setup the above configuration.

So PROPS to SUB. Love this program. And to top it all off the Price Point was perfect for the wife not to get upset with me trying this solution.

[sgilani]

Since it's only happening when a recording starts, it sounds like the GBPVR recording service gobbles up a bunch of CPU cycles and Meedio buckles... did you set the priority for the recording service to High by chance in the config.xml file? Or maybe it would be worth temporarily setting Meedio's priority to AboveNormal in Task Manager and see if it still happens.

[nurowolf]

I will give that a shot.

While using my HTPC on the weekend I also noticed that it had the same affect on theatertek and it was occurring at the start and end of a recording.

But I will try playing with the priority to see what is happening there.

Cheers