strange Recording/playback problem

[Fluffdaddy]

Very stange intermitten record or playback problem, I don't know which.

please bear with me as i try to explain.

25% of the time I'm have this problem. When I play back a recording
sagetv fast forward though the whole recording in like 5 seconds and there nothing I can do to stop it. just picture a 2 hour long movie jumping along till it's over in 5 to 10 seconds.

1) I did a search and I did not find anyone else with this problem

2)it happens with both 2.8 and 3.0 beta so I don't think it's a software problem.

3)this first started happening after a lightning hit and having to replace my MB and hard drive. and reinstall xp and sage

4) I have a 2 250-pvr system with 1gig of ram on a very cheap MB an a Athlon 2600 cpu, ATI 9700 pro vid card

Help.....anyone see or heard of this problem before. I'm about ready to pull my hair out........If I had any

[pjwerdna]

I've had this, or something very like it occaisionally.

Have a look at the file, or files, for the recording. You may find there are several small files that dont add up to the expected length of the program. e.g. approx 800Mb per half hour at my recording setting.

When I had this problem ensuring there was 10% free, 15GB in my case, and defragmenting the drive seem to help. But I never found a definite cure. YMMV

Ive not had this problem after ensuring that there's atleast 10% free and doign the occiasional defregment (I seem to end up with lots of fregmented files every 3 or 4 weeks or so)

[Fluffdaddy]

Originally Posted by pjwerdna

I've had this, or something very like it occaisionally.

Have a look at the file, or files, for the recording. You may find there are several small files that dont add up to the expected length of the program. e.g. approx 800Mb per half hour at my recording setting.

Now that you mention it, I have notice this when I was trying to figure out what the hell was going on for the past 2 weeks.


Maybe as a last resort I will have to do a full format of all 3 of my HD's in my HTPC . I can not live with 20 to 25% of all my recording being messed up like this.

[pjwerdna]

See also

http://forums.freytechnologies.com/forums/showthread.php?t=7384, SageTV splitting recordings

There are a few other postings as well I think. Every one describes it differantly though and seems to have slightly differant fixes.

[Fluffdaddy]

Thank you for the link. Seems like I'm not the only one.
Will try Sage support

[Fluffdaddy]

This helped stop my machine splitting recordings. Not sure if it's a only answer but... it helps. The splitting recordings seem to happen "Mostly" when I'm low on HD space....say 20% left.

I Deleted watched recordings and anything else I could to make enough
space to do a defragment and then I just kept defraging until the analysis said there was no need to defreg, which takes 2 or 3 times.
This takes a long time with 300 and 400 gig drives


This is a Pain in the A$$ problem but it seems not problem that e-nuff people are having for Sage to address...................we are on our own with this one.




side-note: Thinking on replacing my MB. Not sure but I think the first time I seen this was a few weeks after adding a MB with 5 pci slots

[dvd_maniac]

I think that when people start recording that many shows that it takes up 300 and 400GB drives, that they tend to either archive them onto DVDs or shrink them using xvid or divx. For instance, I have thousands of episodes on my system and I record at the max 5.7GB/hour. So I shrink them down to 350MB/hr using AutoGK & Xvid.

[Fluffdaddy]

With 4 turners and three users in my clan, we fill up a 700 gigs in no time at all.

[Fluffdaddy]

Happy ending to my "strange Recording/playback problem".

Replaced my cheap and under powered PS(died on me) along with the very cheap PC-chip motherboard since I had the case open and my skipping problem went away. So It was a hardware problem