Jumpy recordings in 1.3.11

[wodger]

Just in the last couple of days I'm seeing poor/jumpy recordings. The picture freezes up for a second frequently, stops and starts, but the sound is fine - until you get futher into the recording. It just gets worse the longer you watch. Playback is fine on older recordings. I restarted the computer only a few days ago and it's gone longer without a restart previously.

The total space in the recordings directory space available is 381GB of which I've used about 104GB, so probably neither of the two drives is full yet (not sure how Windows actually uses the space).

Could this be something to do with dynamic spanned disks being used as the recordings folder .. or maybe it just needs a defrag? It has been perfect up til now.

[wodger]

Oh, looks like it needs a defrag.

[dshoup]

What is your recording source...are you using an antenna. If so, it could be a reception problem. If weather is bad or your antenna gets bumped and points in the wrong direction it can cause this type of behavior on digital recordings.

[wodger]

Cheers, I wondered that at first, but it turns out that a defrag fixed it.

Never had that problem when I was using a 160GB drive as my recordings and system volume. Now that I've got two dynamic disks making up one spanned volume, it happened within a few weeks, and the volume is far from full.

I'll probably just schedule a defrag to run every couple of weeks.