Choppy video after channel change?

[kevthor]

My sage setup "was" working great! BUT now for some reason right after a channel change the video and audio is very choppy for about 4 seconds then it works great. This is a DirecTV setup.

Anyone have any ideas what could be causing this?

Thanks

[mlbdude]

I get this on my SageClient but not the server. What Hauppauge drivers are you using? Also, is your HD fragmented or formatted with less than 64K blocks?

[kevthor]

It ended up being the fragmented hard drive. I defraged and all is good now. My hard drive is formatted to whatever is default in XP which I am sure is not 64K. I will have to do that forsure next time I format, but I will probably wait till SageTV2 comes out befor e I format.

Thanks!!

[fidget]

The default block size is something like 4K.

[kevthor]

Is there a post somewhere that tells me how to format the drive to 64k? Can I do it during the XP install somewhere?

THanks

[fidget]

Originally posted by kevthor
Is there a post somewhere that tells me how to format the drive to 64k? Can I do it during the XP install somewhere?

THanks

I haven't figured out how to have the Windows XP install CD format for 64K blocks, so this is what I did:

First, I installed XP (I installed in a blank HDD so did the minimal reformat in order to speed things up). Since I built my own system, I got an OEM CD (or some such) in addition to the normal Widows CD. I'm not sure what good it was suppose to do me, but it did allow me to boot up to the command prompt.

From there, I did "format c: /fs:ntfs /a:64k" You can get a complete list of options by typing "help format" at the command prompt. It doesn't look as if you can have a block size greater than 64K under NTFS.

Finally, I reinstalled Windows XP. I only have one HDD, but if you have two, then you can reformat the one from which you didn't boot.

It wasn't an efficient process, but it worked for me.

- Jonathan