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First I want to say that your idea is great- a tv server is an excellent idea.

I just ran the latest version and its much improved, but oddly my sound slows down- I've never seen this before, but I assume its a problem trying to sync the sound to the video and when the capture slows, the audio apparently slows down to match. I'm guessing its just my poor choice of capture card (I have a ATI All In Wonder reference board given out to Win 98 testers at a special price years ago)
I'm also running it on a slowish machine (ADM K-6 400)

One thing I noticed ATI doing in their recording tool (which is pretty amazing in that it drops virtually no frames) is allocating file space before recording.

I'd like to suggest the following to the SnapStream dev team-

- Allocate storage in advance- this seems to help on slower systems
- Give the option to compress video after recording (so the CPU time can be moved away from affecting the recording)
- Allow Temporary/archival storage specs- for example, let us say we want the temp.asf file stored on the local file system, but what our movie directory on a remote filesystem (again, performance would be better writing to a local file and then archiving onto a network drive)
- Allow us to specify how much to cache in memory before writing to the file...

It looks very good though- I just wish I had spare hardware that could run it. And please remember that in many cases, it is spare hardware that will be running these PVR's. And often it is dated hardware.

But I find it difficult to believe I can't record 320x200 video with 22 khz audio without "frame-freeze" on a K6-400 with 98 megs of ram, Windows ME, SB-Live, and an ATI AIW. I'm going to try moving the storage off the network drive That might help.

Byron

[rakeshagrawal]

thanks for the post -- did moving the storage off the network eliminate/help the audio slow down issue?

[This message has been edited by rakeshagrawal (edited 03-01-2001).]