CPU load and Recording folder

[oktivo1]

I've been evaluating the latest Trial version since yesterday, and my experience with BTV has been excellent! I'd like to report a couple of issues. Here are my relevant system specs: 3.8GHz P4, 2GB DDR2 RAM, NVidia GeForce 7800 GS AGP, Hauppauge WinTV HVR-1600 PCI.

The first issue is CPU load. While the BVTAgent process is running, WinXP Task Manager reports CPU usage at 98% to 100%, even with no recording in progress, the ViewScape closed, and no other apps open. Pegging the CPU at 100% for hours (or days) isn't good for my hardware. I'll experiment with MythTV and MediaPortal to see whether they have the same problem.

The second issue is a Recording Folder bug. If you specify the root of a directory as the Recordings folder, BTV treats the folder name as empty and logs errors such as "default recording folder not found", etc. Setting the Recording folder to an actual folder under a root drive (e.g. change G:\ to G:\BTV) resolved the issue.

Thanks,

Orlando

[Bigbird999]

Any show squeeze or smartskip jobs running? Do you have show squeeze and smartskip enabled and/or set to generate immediately? These tasks will consume 100% cpu. smartskip runs at low priority and doesn't affect performance. Show Squeeze is very cpu intensive and I think, most set it to run in the off hours when you are not recording.

I think if you RTFM you will find that it says that you should NOT set your recording folder as the root of a drive and that you must create a folder.

Welcome to BTV

BB

[GeorgeH]

"The second issue is a Recording Folder bug."

I suspect you are incorrect. I have 10 hard drives with recordings with the recording folder being the root.

Exactly which process takes up the 98% of CPU time. The library process often goes off on its own and may use 100% of the time. Killing off the library process often fixes that problem for a while.