IP PVR

[lqqkngood]

I am only able to record about 30 seconds and picture pixilates and freezes. Anyone else experiencing this? How long can we record for using the latest IP PVR?

Thanks

[slowroller]

I do not believe ya can..get a stand alone HDD and plug in..mine is 500 gig 48 hours HD and works like a presidential candidate !!:D

[The Dark Knight]

HMMM, Are you hard wired to the PC via router (switch) or doing it wirelessly? <--- (is that a word.)

Give some more info and I'll be able to help with that. (i.e. version IPPVR, O.S., hardwired or wireless. ect.)

I am connected to my laptop via wireless home network (Vista) I can record until my HDD is full. and The picture quality is B.E.A.UTIFUL!

[lqqkngood]

HMMM, Are you hard wired to the PC via router (switch) or doing it wirelessly? <--- (is that a word.)

Give some more info and I'll be able to help with that. (i.e. version IPPVR, O.S., hardwired or wireless. ect.)

I am connected to my laptop via wireless home network (Vista) I can record until my HDD is full. and The picture quality is B.E.A.UTIFUL!


I am using IP PVR beta 3 release, Window Xp and it is hardwired.

[The Dark Knight]

Alright...

I had issues with Beta 3.0 and 12... Couldn't get them to connect for the life of me...

1st off I would suggest changing to IPPVRPC... It's much more stable in my opinion.

http://www.dssgeeks.com/forums/ippvrpc-t27121/index.html?p=95777

Next thing I would draw to your attention is your cabling. (do you have loose cat5 connectors) make sure your cabling is not a question.

Next how much free memory do you have. You'll want to make sure you don't have any
extra software running in the background to draw your CPU down. You have no adware slowing it down... this all causes issues with CPU speed...

I hope this helps, you may have thought of all these things but I wanted to touch all the bases...

[lqqkngood]

Thanks for the IP PVR link. It seems to work a lot better. Unfortunately, I have tried to record 2 movies today and they frooze up 40 minutes into the first movie and I was almost finised the second movie when it frooze 10 min before the end. I would like to think that Charlie was sending down keys when the freeze up occured. Can anyone verify that this was happenning earlier today?

Thanks again.

[mt_dew]

Alright...

I had issues with Beta 3.0 and 12... Couldn't get them to connect for the life of me...

1st off I would suggest changing to IPPVRPC... It's much more stable in my opinion.

http://www.dssgeeks.com/forums/ippvrpc-t27121/index.html?p=95777

Next thing I would draw to your attention is your cabling. (do you have loose cat5 connectors) make sure your cabling is not a question.

Next how much free memory do you have. You'll want to make sure you don't have any
extra software running in the background to draw your CPU down. You have no adware slowing it down... this all causes issues with CPU speed...

I hope this helps, you may have thought of all these things but I wanted to touch all the bases...


Thanks for the link!! it works flawlessly to as the other I could never get it to work! :cool:

[The Dark Knight]

Aint not thing but a chinken wing - Translation = No problem guys.

lqqkngood,
I can't verify that it was a key change but, what I can say is; if you were watching
the 2 movies when the freezing occured and they didn't freeze on your set it wasn't
the key change.

The Box sends the info to your PC. So, if all is well on the viewing end it has to be
something in your PC running, cabling/router or an unstable OS/memory. Do you have a 2nd PC you can try this on?

I know not to many people are like me and have 4 PCs and 2 laptops to play with.
But, if you did that would be an easy troubleshoot right there..

[lqqkngood]

All is fine now ,,,,no freezing at all. I switched to an external HD with 120 GIG. The receiver and IP PVR frooze when I was sending the file to my desk top HD now it is ok sending it to my external.

Thanks again.

[The Dark Knight]

SWEEEET!... I am glad for ya... Enjoy... That on board HDD must be rather slow then.

If interested you might see where your vertual memory lies... Sometimes people set this
to "let windows choose what's best for my computer" when windows doesn't know what it is talking about LOL...
If interested go to Control panel>System>Advanced>Performance settings
You can choose custom and turn all those off.
Also, in that window click the advance tab and click virtual memory>change
You can select the maximum amount of disk space that windows can use for virtual memory...

Just a thought. If your anything like me you'll want to play around and find out why that
fix (external HDD) worked...

anyway I am glad ya got er going...