Having studdering when all three pvr-150 are recording

[rparker]

If I try to watch a recorded show when I have all 3 of my pvr-150 recording it studders..
Here is my server configation
Windows 2003 32 bit SP 2
3 WB 7200 500 GB Hds
3 Gigs Ram
Intel Dual core E2160
Asus system brd
Sage 6.2.10.152
Java 1.5.0_14
Norton AV

Nothing esle is runing or done with this server.

All watching is done via client pc

[Lucas]

This is most probably due to everything being recorded on a single drive at that particular moment.

Have you formatted your recording drives using 64K blocks?

Also lose Norton AV or disable it from scanning your recording drives.

You may also need to defrag your drives since, if you regularly record 3 shows at a time, then you 'll end up with very fragmented drives.

The most appropriate solution is to force each PVR150 to record to its own drive (since you have 3 of them).

I used to have the same issue with just 2 concurrent recording on a nearly full but heavily fragmented drive.

[rparker]

How do you set each card to use a different hard drive ?

[Lucas]

There will be a line like the one below for each of your PVR 150s

mmc/encoders/-1327961488/forced_video_storage_path_prefix=

just assign a different path for each and you are set.

[padre]

Yup, the "forced_video_storage_path_prefix=" function is the way to go! I have 2 HDHRs and 1 Hauppauge 350, and each source get's it own drive. No stuttering ever since I did it. Previously if all three were recording to a single drive, stuttering like crazy.

[blade]

I often capture 2 HD streams and 2 SD streams while streaming to 2 clients all from one drive and have never had a problem with stuttering because of disk throughput.