Re: Recorded TV playback

You could try putting the Pagefile on another drive.
Are there any entries in the event logs that indicate any disk reading
problems when playing recorded TV?
Any unusual CPU utilization when watchng a recording from the C: drive?
What is the speed of C drive and how much cache does it have on it?
"GEVan" <GEVan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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1. No problems with Live TV
2. DMA is enabled
3. I can watch a DVD that I've copied to a HDD without any probems (unless
I've got a heavy CPU program running in the background.)
4. I record TV to my second internal drive to get smooth playback. It's
only
when I record to the default location (or just C:) that its fouls up.
Since
my drive is 300GB, I'm not making good use for a lot of space
4. IDE all (two drives are self powered USB interface -- and even they
work
well)

"JW" wrote:

Do you have any trouble with LiveTV?
Are DMA tranfers enabled for the drive?
If you have another internal drive other then C have you tried it?
Is C: an IDE drive? If yes is another device on the same IDE bus?
"GEVan" <GEVan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Why is it when I record TV onto the default c:/../recorded TV the
playback
stutters (i.e. stops/hangs) on a random basis (avg. once per two
minutes.)?
Yet when I record to an external drive, the playback is perfect?

NOTE:
No other programs are running in either scenario.
Messenger service is turned off in MCE and deleted in Windows XP.
All hard drives routinely defragged on a daily/continuous basis. 250
gigs
free on C.
2 gigs RAM.
the 'TEMP directory is on ANOTHER drive (O:/) other than C or the
recorded
TV (P:/) drive. Pagefile remains on C.





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