BTV hard-disk trashing causing frame skips?

[JornGH]

I've been testing BTV and a couple of other apps for a couple of weeks now. One thing I have noted is BTV's constant hard-disk usage. I sometimes notice frame skips during particular heavy hard-disk activity. None of the other apps behave in this way (that is, no hd trashing or frame skips).

What's going on? Even if I exit window/full-screen mode and BTV is idle there's a couple of BTV processes trashing the hard-disk (no recording going on)! In my otherwise silent HTPC I find this extremely annoying! Is there any way to stop these processes?

Apart from this I'm happy with BTV and I'm close to buying it (still on trial).

My setup:

P4 2.6GHz
512 Mb RAM
PVR-250
GeForce FX 5200

[Eric3a]

You probably have "Always Timeshifting" on.
Which means you are ALWAYS recording.

If you don't want HD activity, switch it off from the Web Admin interface.
Eric

[JornGH]

Originally posted by Eric3a
You probably have "Always Timeshifting" on.
Which means you are ALWAYS recording.

If you don't want HD activity, switch it off from the Web Admin interface.
Eric

Yes, I have time-shifting enabled, but does that explain the constant, loud disk access? I can't even hear the hard-disk if I do time-shifting with SageTV or the Hauppauge PVR software.

[Eric3a]

The loud disk is explained by your HD being a noisy model
I have a Seagate, and it's rather quiet.

But try and disable Timshift and you should hear a big difference.
If not, we'll investigate some more.

I have no idea how the other programs work, or at what quality you have them set, so can't say much about that.
Eric