stuttering video

[Sarlac]

Ive had this stuttering video issue for a little while now, It went away for a week or so but it's back. so..


During playback of recorded shows or even during "livetv" the audio moves along smoothly b ut every few seconds i get a frozen frame of video. sometimes it will even freeze entirely forcing me to end task on sage.

I'm looking for any and all suggestions on this one.
My disks are all formated 64k.
btw... overlay, no 3d accel, 1gb ddr400, 3.0ghz p4, 5 drives dedicated to sage (1 250gb sata internal, 1 80gb sata internal, 1 80gb sata external, 2 250gb pata external)

[something fishy]

I think that I have had something similar. Audio proceeds smoothly but video "sticks". I think that it is dropping frames (as it sticks for 1/8-1/4 sec it must be dropping about 6-12 of them).

Its been an intermittent problem ever since I upgraded to Sage 4.1.3 however at that same time I added a 400Gb SATA drive (to an exisiting 400Gb PATA drive) so I don't know if the issue was
- The new version of Sage
- Using FSE which I initially couldn't get to work with reclock (previously plain vanilla VMR9)
- The SATA drive (I was using the onboard controller on a Gigabyte 848 mainboard)

At the moment I think that I've sorted the problem; I have:
- Moved the SATA disk off the onboard SATA controller onto a highpoint SATA card (this uses a proprietory ie non-Silicon Image chip). For some reason Sage felt more responsive after I did this but I still noticed the odd dropped frame.
- Upgraded Java 1.4 to 1.5.6 and reinstalled Sage 4.1.3. Again made Sage feel a bit more responsive but did nothing for dropped frames.
- Reinstated reclock (now v1.6) and fiddled about to get it to work with FSE (turns out I needed to force it to work on the primary display, not auto detect).

This last seems to have cured it (3 evenings viewing, no stutters) so maybe I was just seeing the effect of the sound card and video card clocks being out of sync and the first two steps were unneeded.

Give reclock a go and see if that helps things.

Cheers

Eric

[Sarlac]

ok... I tried your suggestion, reclock. It didnt help, but was very interesting.
I do thank you for your input but as usual I have discovered what I think is the culprit. Me. doh! one of my pata external drives was still on the silly windoze default of 4k, and I needed to update my hauppauge drivers. Drivers are now up to date, and that drive has been removed from rotation untill it can be reformatted. The problem seems to be gone for now, but as I stated in my initial posting, it vanished for a week or two there and came right back. I'm going to hold my breath and cross my fingers. If it returns I'll most likely be back.


Jeff