Questions from a new user

[ernest]

My ReplayTV died recently for the second time, and so I decided to give a PC
based system a try. I have a Hauppauge PVR-350 and Sage TV 2.0.

* When watching LiveTV on my computer monitor, the video playback stutters. The audio is fine. I don't have a connection yet to a TV so I don't know if it happens for that. I'm running Windows XP Professional on a Dell 2.54 GHz computer with 512 megs of RAM. What could be causing this problem? I've tried adjusting the video options in Sage TV, but nothing has helped.

* I want to set up a second hard drive just for video. What file systems works best for video recording and playback?

* How do I cancel a recording that is currently in progress?

Thanks!

Ernest

[Opus4]

Originally posted by ernest
* When watching LiveTV on my computer monitor, the video playback stutters. The audio is fine. I don't have a connection yet to a TV so I don't know if it happens for that. I'm running Windows XP Professional on a Dell 2.54 GHz computer with 512 megs of RAM. What could be causing this problem? I've tried adjusting the video options in Sage TV, but nothing has helped.

What is the cluster size on that partition? A fragmented file with a cluster size less than 64K can cause stuttering.

* I want to set up a second hard drive just for video. What file systems works best for video recording and playback?

I use & suggest NTFS using a cluster size of 64K.

* How do I cancel a recording that is currently in progress?

There are probably several ways. LiveTV? see the FAQs thread: sleep SageTV or use the Stop command are 2 ways.

For a manual recording, you could use the Record command again to remove the manual recording setting. For a non-manual recording, you could use the Record command twice -- once to turn it on & once to turn it back off. You could mark the show as watched or don't like. You could...

- Andy