Garbled recordings with PVR250(s)

[briands]

I have recently moved sage (as well as the encoders and drives) to a different machine and I am getting a lot of "corrupt recordings". These files pixilate, show portions of other files, have serious lip sinc issues, jump all around the timeline. Some even hang the UI on the menu screen for up to 20 minutes. I have tried these files in WMP and they play just as badly, so I think it has to be an encoder issue. Any suggestions?

Oh, one other possible clue. Watching live tv seems to work flawlessly if I don't get too far behind "live".

I intend to run in service mode with an MPV client on this machine. I am going to disable the MPV client to see if that helps, but that is not a good long term solution.

Is there a chance that this is a hard drive issue? I have two drives that are used for recordings. I also have two encoders. Is there a way to identify the encoder that was used for the recording? Is there a way to suspend one of the encoders?

Thanks in advance for any help!

[briands]

Well, I thought I had isolated this issue to only files on one of my drives so I removed it from sage and reformatted, increasing to 64k clusters at the same time. I left it out of Sage for a while and had no problems. Well, I got greedy (it is 250GB after all) and added it back into Sage yesterday. When I got home today, my wife mentioned that some files would not play. Sure enough they are all on this drive. Is there a free drive integrity test ap? I want to change out the cable and test it again, but I'd like to test it without destroying the WAF that I had worked to improve. Any thoughts?

[Opus4]

I'm sure someone will know of some test utility, but the manufacturer should have diagnostic tools on their website & will probably want you to run that utility before asking for a replacement, if the drive turns out to be bad.

Also, look into whether your system (controller + Windows itself) can handle partitions that large. The drive may be fine, but the system may not be able to correctly handle the drive size w/o some updates.

- Andy