I've been looking at what D* has been doing to resolve BSOD and some other behaviors when watching recordings and have an interesting thought.
I know from building media center PCs that one of the biggest issues with recording and playback is bandwidth from the hard disk. You need a fast, high quality hard drive to meet the demands especially when you place HD in the mix (I've dabbled in this space with OTA and Windows Media Center).
Since the latest release the only playback issues I've seen were a couple of issues that appeared to be data stream hiccups. Is it possible that D* is simply having some issues with getting the data into and out of the hard drive??
BSOD could be the result of poor error handling in the video codecs that is being hit due to data stream problems off of the disk drive. I know the recent release involved some major tweaking of the MPEG4 codec and am wondering if this was how they eliminated BSOD.
I know that D* caved in and is doing a massive 2 part update to the R15 around the file system, and am wondering if we might have the same problem in our world.
Just looking for some thoughts from all of you as I'm sure you have different takes (especially you Earl if any of your insiders have gave you an inkling that this might be what's going on).
I know from building media center PCs that one of the biggest issues with recording and playback is bandwidth from the hard disk. You need a fast, high quality hard drive to meet the demands especially when you place HD in the mix (I've dabbled in this space with OTA and Windows Media Center).
Since the latest release the only playback issues I've seen were a couple of issues that appeared to be data stream hiccups. Is it possible that D* is simply having some issues with getting the data into and out of the hard drive??
BSOD could be the result of poor error handling in the video codecs that is being hit due to data stream problems off of the disk drive. I know the recent release involved some major tweaking of the MPEG4 codec and am wondering if this was how they eliminated BSOD.
I know that D* caved in and is doing a massive 2 part update to the R15 around the file system, and am wondering if we might have the same problem in our world.
Just looking for some thoughts from all of you as I'm sure you have different takes (especially you Earl if any of your insiders have gave you an inkling that this might be what's going on).
