You might also consider moving your playback to a 2nd machine. If you
remove playback from that existing machine, it should be able to keep
up fine with HD recording/etc.
In my experience the frontend process is very spikey (as are video
drivers), which can wreck havoc with dmas/irqs and getting stable
recordings.
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Thanks, While I think you're right about this - in general, I don't think it's the cause of my problems. Tonight I will try shutting down the frontend on this box and see if by chance that makes a difference, but somehow I doubt it will matter. I see the corrupt video show up solely dependent upon co-capture with the PVR-350. It doesn't matter if I'm watching live HDTV or have the frontened main menu displayed and I'm just capturing standard definition digital content. Concurrent recording with 1 or even both tuners of the PVR-500 does nothing to the stability of the FusionHDTV 5 lite stream, it is fine. In addition, I can capture with both PVR-500 tuners and the PVR-350 tuner all at the same time and see no issues with any of the streams... Finally, it doesn't seem to matter whether I'm capturing HDTV stream at approx 7GB/hr or standard definition digital stream at 1GB/hr.
Without the PVR-350 in the box- and I'm only using it as a 3rd analog tuner, not for TV-out, the system is rock solid- and the only time I have any issues is when the PVR-350 is capturing. In all honesty, I'd just take the card out, but I'm using it for the remote control. I know I could just run a 2 analog, 1 digital tuner setup and leave the PVR-350 unconfigured, but it "should" work fine and if the card is installed in the system, I might as well enable the tuner for the extremely rare need for 3 concurrent analog capture streams.
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