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Posted by chunksùÈnžKŠÇ.²È¨žÉ¢rº,¡û\¢ on June 2, 2005, 1:31 am
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Hi,

I have a couple of questions, my Media Centre seems to thrash my hard disk
continuosly - whether I am watching live TV or listening to music - Is this
Normal ?

Also, when I play a DVD, I am getting alot of stutter/jitter which also
seems to be related to the system thrashing the hard disk at the same time as
playing a DVD, although I dont know why it would want to do this when its
just playing a DVD ?

Thanks


Posted by JW on June 2, 2005, 5:59 am
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When watching LiveTV a time shift buffer is maintained on the HDD. This
does not stop when you stop watching Live TV in MCE 2005. The only way to
stop it is to start watching a recorded program and then to stop that.
When you get stuttering does the sound also stutter?
If not then the problem is that your graphics card cannot keep with the
audio and I suggest that you get the latest driver from the card
manufacturers Website and see if that corrects the problem. The latest
NVIDIA driver is 71.89 and the latest ATI driver is Catalyst 5.5.
If that does not help let us know what Graphics card you have, and what DVD
Decoder product and release level you are using.

> Hi,
>
> I have a couple of questions, my Media Centre seems to thrash my hard disk
> continuosly - whether I am watching live TV or listening to music - Is
> this
> Normal ?
>
> Also, when I play a DVD, I am getting alot of stutter/jitter which also
> seems to be related to the system thrashing the hard disk at the same time
> as
> playing a DVD, although I dont know why it would want to do this when its
> just playing a DVD ?
>
> Thanks




Posted by Brian on June 2, 2005, 8:39 am
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> I have a couple of questions, my Media Centre seems to thrash my hard disk
> continuosly - whether I am watching live TV or listening to music - Is
this
> Normal ?

Your hard drive could be fragmented. I had this happen once before and
checking the hard drive showed me it was badly in need of a defrag.

Things also worked much better once I moved my recorded files to a separate
partition. Better still would be a separate drive, but I don't have the $
for that at the moment.

Brian




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