BTVLibraryService - Bringing BTV to hault

[jtlindee]

I have BTV setup on a server with a RAID 5 array with hundred of shows ~800 GB with three tuners with XP Pro and BTV Link on my laptop with Vista Home Premium. The server has BTV 4.6 and the laptop BTV Link 4.6

I recorded a live TV show that was three hours long (baseball game). I was not in live TV, BTV had been setup to record this show. About three minutes after this recording started I went into it via the recorded shows page from the BTV Link machine. I watched about 2.5 hours of it then exited back to recorded shows. I then watched another recording for about 30 seconds. I then went out of that recording and went back into the recording that was taking progress via the recorded shows page.

This when all heck broke lose. The BTV Server started thrashing the RAID array like I was defragging. My BTVLibraryService was between 40-60%CPU utilization. The video was frozen on the link machine and it took several attempts to get it playing again. After about 10 minutes the thrashing stopped and the video playback was fine again. I checked and I couldn't see anything outside BTV running (antivirus, etc) that might have caused this. Any guesses on what BTV was doing when I went into the recording the second time? Thanks for your hellp,

[GeorgeH]

Beyond TV has a number of problems. This is one of them.

One cure is to replace your CPU with a dual processor.

[Khris]

Originally Posted by GeorgeH

Beyond TV has a number of problems. This is one of them.

One cure is to replace your CPU with a dual processor.

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[ZetaVu]

I would assume you had post processing set to run immediately, you can go into settings and change (streamsnip, smartchapter, showsqueeze) and set the priority to run off-peak and set the time when you want it run, or turn them off completely. You can also go to the showsqueeze page in webadmin and it will show you what is happening. Some functions (like tagging, etc) do need to run after recordings, you could potentially lower their priority in task manager however I wouldn't recommend this unless you are comfortable and experienced doing that. Looks like you have only 512mb memory (could be suing your swap excessively), I'd boost that up when you get a chance. Also always good to check you defrag on your HD's (I don't raid so no idea what the impact on that is) but after a good defrag (in my data drives) everything seems to move a lot smoother with a lot less HD activity. Also check to see if you were running a guide update, that should show in the logs.

[krosfyah]

Ever since I upgraded to 4.6, I get similar problems. Then one day I turned off the active protection from my anti-virus and the problems virtually disappeared. I prevously excluded the necessary directories but apparently something else is causing probs.