HD-PVR recordings freezing periodically...help!

[rdefino]

I have been struggling with this since I got my PVR. I have a windows 2003 server running the latest Sage beta and HD-PVR drivers 1.0.5.3.

I'll be watching a recorded HD show and it will freeze for about 2 seconds then it will come back. Sometimes when it comes back the video is running like in slow motion. Then I have to stop playing it and start playing it again to clear it up.

I've been searching the forums for help, but just can't find any.

Has anyone found a solution or have any ideas on what I can do to figure this out?

thanks

[rdefino]

Anyone?

thanks

[rdefino]

bump

[mikejaner]

Is the video being recorded locally to the 2003 server? Are you watching through extenders? If you are, you may have network problems. When I had issues like this, it was problems with network cards or linksys switches etc...

[Skirge01]

How's your hard drive activity during these occurrences? I generally have seen this when my hard drives are thrashing like crazy. You might want to check something like process explorer to see if something is taking up I/O bandwidth or CPU bandwidth. I see you have a 3TB RAID array... how many drives are involved and at what speed? I'm assuming the Promise chip is an onboard one, not an add-in card, right? Just trying to consider if it's a hardware RAID versus software RAID issue.

If you really want to isolate your drives and rule the drive bandwidth out as an issue, try exclusively recording to a single, large drive and see if things improve.

[Chriscic]

If you rewind, does the problem happen always in the same spot, or just at random times?

[rdefino]

I have watched it localy on the server and it happens there too. It also happens if I rewind it. There are 7 - 750gb 7200rpm drives in the array now, and I'm using a separate promise raid card. It doesn't happen all the time, so it's tough to troubleshoot.

Thanks