How I fixed my playback issue

[pduncan67]

My playback was not good - the video looked OK, but audio would stutter a bit. Live TV looked OK, as long as I was not recording.

My system, while it meets the minimum specs, was a bit on the 'weak' side... (see my sig).
I have two hard drives (C and D). C (30 GB) contains my OS and that's about it. My D is 120 GB and was set for my recordings.
(edit) - C was set as master and D was set as 'slave' on primary IDE channel (end edit)
On a whim, I set everything to run on C - and that fixed my performance issues.

Next, I am going to try connecting my D drive to be the master on my secondary IDE channel - I will update this post with the results once I get a chance to test.

[pduncan67]

One thing... I never took the time to set up my second drive - all my recordings were going to C:

Take my advice - Don't do this...
See this tread:
http://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.php...post329021

If possible have the recordings go to a different partition - that way if your hard disk does fill up, your system won't crash like mine did.

[martint123]

I sometimes have a problem with something like this. What happens is that the IDE controller sees a hickup or something and drops the DMA transfer method down to PIO mode and this is around 4mbps compared to the normal 60 to 80mbps.

Some info here http://winhlp.com/node/10

[pduncan67]

Awesome - thank you. I will certainly give that a try!