Hardware for improving multiple recordings

[Kiwi_Tim]

I've had a few errors appear (black screen or part black screen) when playing back TV recordings. This seems to be happening on both SD and HD recordings

 

This only happens for a few seconds, and only occurs when I record more than one channel at the same time.

 

I have 2 Hauppauge TV cards installed on an XP SP3 system: NOVA-S-PLUS satellite capture card and a HVR-3000 hybrid card. I have 3.25 GB of RAM avaiable to Windows, an AMD 5050e 2.6 X2 cpu, and a Western Digital 400GB 7200RPM Hard Disk.

 

I have the most current version of DVBViewer. I am wondering where the bottleneck is regarding recording multiple channels at once. I am guessing it is the Hard Drive and am thinking that a RAID 0 setup may fix my problems, but maybe I need a CPU with 4 cores instead of the 2 cores I get with the 5050e.

 

Any advice on hardware selection that would enable error free multiple recordings will be greatly appreciated.

 

Tim

New Zealand

[Lars_MQ]

Writing to the harddisc is for sure no bottleneck.

To narrow down the problem you should activate "Write log file" on the options -> Recordings page. Then you should check: does it always happen if the two devices are active or only if they both use the SAT dish.

[Kiwi_Tim]

Upon reflection I am pretty sure that the error occurs when I am recording 2 channels on the same transponder.

 

Thanks for your advice, I'll give it a go.

 

 

 

Many thanks,

 

Tim

New Zealand