Brian, I see this exact same issue - the choppy video which you
describe as a "stopping and starting" effect - on my firewire video as
well. Everything else with my Firewire setup works well, except
this. The thing is, I see it on standard def. TV as well as HD -
although not all the time and not on every channel. It's very
random. My CPU usage looks no different viewing Firewire-recorded
video than it does when I'm viewing video recorded from my
PVR-250. (which works flawlessly, not choppy at all)
Turning off the "use video as timebase" setting on the frontend seems
to help a bit, but not 100%. <br>
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Just for reference, my Firewire box (DCT6200) is hooked up to a Dell P3
1Ghz, which is conifgured as a slave-backend streaming the video to my
master backend/frontend box which is in my living room. While I
can't prove it, I don't think my network is the issue here - nor is the
harddrive. I've sorta been assuming that maybe it's a slow PCI
bus/motherboard issue on the Dell box, but I'm not sure. <br>
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Anyway, I realize you're having other issues with FireWire but I just
thought I'd see if you were seeing this choppy video stuff on non-HD
content as well. <br>
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>With preliminary testing (when the firewire is working), I get sort of a<br>
>continual "stop and start" when playing back HD content as if<br>
>*something* can't keep up. It doesn't look to me like my CPU is being<br>
>killed - I see it at around a load of 2-3 (which is a little higher than<br>
>regular content), but didn't seem terrible. And watching hard drive<br>
>activity (which is set to use DMA) also doesn't seem bad at all...so I'm<br>
>not sure if it's a bus or an IRQ issue or what. I'll be happy to just<br>
>get the firewire straightened out first and then look into this issue.<br>
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>Thanks!<br>
<span class="sg">>Brian</span>