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jaykchan
12-06-2004, 10:01 AM
BTV 3.4 ignores FireFly every half hour. Let's say it is 7:30pm and I press the fast-forward button on a FireFly remote --> nothing happen. I keep pressing the fast-forward button repeatedly --> still nothing happen. BTV 3.4 seems to ignore commands from FireFly completely. After 30-seconds to one-minute, I find that BTV 3.4 resumes responding to FireFly again. And this is like that every 30 minutes. What's happening and how to get around with this problem?

I am sure that FireFly is OK because I can hit the big FireFly button to open the FireFly menu. Seem like BTV 3.4 may be too busy to respond to FireFly command.

I try to get around with this problem by increasing the priority of FireFly in Task Manager. But this doesn't make any difference.

Please help. Thanks.

Jay Chan
nanook105
12-06-2004, 10:06 AM
Can you see the red light on the Firefly receiver when you press the "ignored" commands ?
jkoon
12-06-2004, 11:14 AM
Perhaps you have another program that is stealing focus from btv? Just a thought.
jaykchan
12-07-2004, 11:42 AM
Yes, I can see the red-light when I press the button on FireFly.

I will be looking at the possibility of another process is stealing the time from BTV. I have been using updated SpySweeper to get rid of spywares, and I have been using updated anti-virus to sweep the PC; but I still have that ignore-FireFly-every-30-minutes problem.

I am just hoping that this is a known problem that has already been fixed. I guess not... Oh well...

Jay Chan
aaronmielke
12-16-2004, 06:24 PM
When BTV starts a recording it can become unresponsive in general. I assume every half-hour or so BTV starts a new recording.
jaykchan
12-17-2004, 08:54 AM
The thing is that my BTV becomes non-responsive every half hour regardless if it needs to start recording or not. This is like BTV needs to spend a lot of time scanning a recording-schedule to see if it needs to start recording or not. I actually have quite a number of recording schedules (30 or so) between my wife and I. I am hoping that this is a BTV 3.4 "thing", and this may have been fixed in 3.5.

Jay Chan