Momentary Video Freezes with Seagate Hard Drive

[EdwardATeller]

I have a dedicated hard drive for Sage recordings. It is a new 500 GB Seagate ATA, and it is formatted to 64k block sizes. It does not need defragging. It is on its own IDE controller with no other drive. After recording Lord of the Rings from TNT-HD yesterday. I noticed the video froze momentarily every 20 seconds or so. The freeze is always in the same place, so I think the freeze occurred on the recording, not the playback. I am going to try to verify this but transcoding the video to another format ans seeing if the freeze is still there, but in meantime, I thought maybe someone here might have a suggestions. Thanks.

[gplasky]

Why do yo need to transcode it? Open it up in Windows Media Player or any other player that can handle mpg2 files and see if it plays fine.

Gerry

[EdwardATeller]

That's what I eventually did. No freeze when playing back with MPC, just a video glitch. I guess STV turns that glitch into a freeze. The error is on the recording. People always say recording is the easy part, since it is a direct stream copy. It's disappointing that my system is unable to record properly.

I'd like to see a motherboard that had built in HD recording/playback done right. I refuse to add to the ridiculous number of hours I've spent on this project, and I will just endure the glitches.