Replay freezes, echos, and best audio rates

[Tulex]

Playback of a recording works great first time, but if I go back later and try to watch it again, it freezes at the first frames. This is for every recording I have done. I have to ctrl/alt/del to get out, yet it says it's running, and exits cleanly at that point with end process.

Also, recorded 2 shows back to back, and the second one seems to have an echo. Any ideas?

What dictates where the audio rates should be set at. I see that it defaults to 48 and 224. Is there any advantage to playing with these? Also, can the default quality be changed from medium? I know I can change the settings for medium and just use that as my default highest, but would rather have it labled properly.

Last, pushing the skip button a second time before it has finished the first skip locks it up. Others seeing this. Hauppauge 45 remote.

A lot in one post, so thanks for any replies.

[stefan]

Playback of a recording works great first time, but if I go back later and try to watch it again, it freezes at the first frames. This is for every recording I have done.

If you have enabled the "prompt for resume"-option, gbpvr should - yes, you guessed it - prompt for resume at this point. Usually it pauses the recording, and a popup shows, where you should be able to choose to resume where you left off, or restart the show. Sounds to me like this isn't working properly on your system, for some reason. Try to disable the "prompt for resume" and see if that resolves the issue.

[capone]

I did audio 224/44, but I'm no audiophile. I think that's higher than the TV speakers are going to do, but there if I turn on the receiver. It's also so I get better audio if I recompress it later.

224 is about CD quality. 192 is probably the low end of high quality. After that, I would save 160/128 for recording simple audio like a newscast.

[Tulex]

Thanks for the info stefan and capone.
Are people getting the resume to work?
So if 224 is cd quaility, then anything over that is overkill, and would just add to the file size? I mean, it sounds like 384 is like having 11 on a volume control (some movie). And the lower the sample, the higher quality audio?

[capone]

All this is going to depend on your sound card, tv, speakers, et al. It's like asking where everyone sets the seat in their car, so some extent, or how much salt tastes good.

If you want a real answer that fits you, you can do two things:
1) Record stuff at the various levels and see how they sound. If you can't tell the difference between one, and one higher, then you may have found the threshold.

But, you could end up testing a talking segment vs a music segment. So, a better test may be

2) Record something pretty high. Then, use a program to recomress the file w/ just the audio lowered/resampled down in steps. Then replay and compare those segments.

Doing either will also give you a rough idea of the size differences, too (using #2, make sure you save as the segment using the audio quality you recorded at, just so everything is at same a/v resave values).

But....

If you're looking for an answer w/o taking to the nerd levels above, 224/44 or 48 is about as high as you will probably need. Try lower values until it sounds like crap, and then go back up one.

[Tulex]

I understand and agree with your analogies, and will do some playing around. I just didn't want to get all Tim Taylor with it if there is no real benefit. You can put a racing engine in a mower, but you can only mow so fast.

[stefan]

Thanks for the info stefan and capone.
Are people getting the resume to work?

I think so. It works for me. Have you tried fiddling with the VMR9/7/Overlay setting?

[Tulex]

Not yet. Was hoping to get obvious fixes before I messed around.