Re: Recorded TV playback
- From: GEVan <GEVan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2007 18:18:00 -0700
Don't know what you mean by 'hard drive cache.' Only thing to tell you is it
is a SATA, not IDE like I said before. Ultra-DMA. 300GB. 7200 RPM.
Intel 4 chip, 3.2 GHz, 512 MB on board cash, 800 MHz front buss. 2GB RAM.
I'm reluctant to move the pagefile to another drive. If that drive went out,
then Windows will crash. Sure, it would rebuild one on startup, but I see
better troughput keeping it on the internal drive than moving it outside the
box. Temp files are on external drive (1 TB, 7200 USB drive). Watching copied
DVD's (at MPEG-2) from these drives have no problems. Playback of .dvr-ms
files on these drives have no problem. Only when I put a DVD or .dvr-ms on
the C: drive does MCE stutter.
If I use another player for the movies (WinDVD 8), no problems playing
movies on the C: drive. --> the problem must reside in eShell's operation.
I've tried making the priority higher, but no real effect -- in fact, it
seems worse as System Services and programs are now starved for CPU time.
No other CPU intensive programs running duriing recording or playback. If
I'm working on something while I'm recording, then yes, the actual recording
has temporary halts and stutters as the CPU tries to handle all the info.
Checking memory usage (free memory) and CPU usage during recording, I
average around 1 GB free memory (meaning the pagefile is not being utilized)
and CPU levels is around %20-30. System is NOT overloading. That's why I
can't figure out why it would be stuttering.
A friend told me to get a stronger power supply (400W -vs- 300W), believing
my PC is underpowered. But almost all my peripherals are either self powered
or of minimal power drain (i.e. USB microphone, wireless keyboard, mouse,
etc.)
"JW" wrote:
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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