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Hi!

I do have a problem during recording.

System:
ProgDVB version 4.85.1
PC: WinXP SP2, 512 MB Ram, Intel P4 2,4 GHz, lots of free space on the HD. DVB-C TT-premium C-2300

If I only watch TV there is no problem at all but if I try to record something the picture and sound freezes for a vew seconds during the recording. After a vew seconds the picture and soud comes back again.
So at every recording I do have lots of scenes with a frozen screen which is getting on my nervs because I could not record even one thing without this problem!


What can I do to solve the problem?

Thanks for help!

Marco

Hi again!

I forgot - NO TIMESHIFT in use!

Marco

What does happen if you use your orginal software to the card this to me sounds like an disk that is going in PIO mode or even fragmented but its hard to tell does the recording work well with technotrends orginal software ?

What format does the partition have, that you're recording to, FAT32 or NTFS?

Try FAT32 if any possible, as that file system is a lot faster.

Switch off unnecessary background tasks as indexing, for example.
And don't let your anti virus software scan the disk in the background.
But of course it should be watching online...
Also take care of modern malware, as it's possible, your computer is just busy, sending zillions of spam mails or similar, if infected...

512 MB RAM is not really much for XP, possibly your machine has to use it's swap file to much. Think about a RAM upgrade, and / or a second physical hard disk, for your recordings, formatted FAT32 (from another system like a Linux LiveCD or similar, or perhaps a good partitioning tool).

Timeshift use is not the point, this has to be deselected on install time, to be really off.

Deactivate 'special' plugins, some of them cause really some load short after channel switching.

What driver do you use?

If you don't have severe mainboard related trouble in HW mode, don't use PCI-e specific KS drivers, go for the standard ones, out of TT packet 2.19 or 2.19h, not 2.19c

I don't have that cable card, but my Nexus 2.2 is quite similar, regarding CPU load and alike. And on this, both ProgDVB and the TT soft are recording fine in true HW mode.
Though, in any kind of a software mode, my machine still is a bit slow, any other CPU load may cause trouble then. One of those may even come from a stupid AC97 based sound card, those put extra real time load to your CPU and bus.
Better to use some real hardware, but even cheap one would do then.

Sorry for the late reply but I was really sik!

To answer your questions:

The installed TT driver is 2.19h. I am using two HDD's formated with NTFS.
I have the same problem deactivating the firewall and antivir prog.
Latest directX installed.
Defrag done lots of free space on the HDD availible. No programs running in the background.
Quality shows 95-100% but the level is only between 45-58%.


I wonder what the problem is. As I wrote before the problem only comes up if I record something. Only watching it there is no problem at all.

THANK YOU VERRY MUCH FOR THE SUPPORT!

Kind regards

Marco

Deactivate indexing for the whole (physical) drive you're recording to.

And again, think about recording to a FAT32 partiton.

Normally, recording is not an issue at all.
I've tested recording to external USB2 HDD, to LAN drives, to the USB2 connected XD flash memory card inside of a camera, even to a UDF formatted CD or DVD.
All OK as long as it's not to NTFS.

But if using software decoding, the buffers may lead to RAM shortage, also perhaps depending on your codec and it's settings, requiring swap file use and slowing down the machine enormously.
Make sure you're not swapping to the recording target HDD.

Hallo Juergen!

Thanks for the fast reply!

I also tried a recording via USB2 to a 300 GB FAT32 formated HD same problem.

Which CODEC are you using? And where can it be changed?
My TT card has a onboard mpg2 hardwaredecoder.

sometimes I can read at this forum that a DVD-Player like Cyberlink PowerDVD is installed. Can this be the problem? Do I have to install it too?

I Installed the K-Lite Codec pack and I am using the Media Player Classic to watch DVD.

Thanks Marco

I'm using plain hardware mode only, as I don't need deinterlacing on my PC screen SONY CPD 300sft5.


This for, I'm not using codecs for ProgDVB, though cyberlink is available from PowerDVD 4 / XP, which will be used from WMP and similar.

(If available) codecs can only be (really) changed from DirectShow settings.


Codec packs are a bad idea, as they quite often ruin the whole DirectShow mechanics. Remove the pack and reinstall DirectX.
Then only install the codecs you really need.

Possibly your problerms are related to that codec pack...