Hey all. I'm posting this again because I'm hoping someone can give
me some advice or even point me to another forum/page/faq/whatever
that could help.

I used to be able to record off TV and VHS with my laptop and TV
tuner. I have an HP Pavillion zd8000 laptop with Windows XP Media
Center 2005 edition on it. The problem is that sometime during the
recording, the recording stops, but Media Center thinks it's still
recording. The on-screen buttons show it's recording, but when the
movie's done, I check the file and find it only partially recorded. I
get no error message, either, it just stops after 22 minutes or 58
minutes or something, and for no discernible reason. I'm not running
out of memory and MC works fine otherwise.

Any thoughts?

Stacia

On 3/04/2008, Stacia posted this:
There is a possibility that you're running into the file-size
limitation of the FAT32 file system.

If so, you'd do better if you saved the files on n NTFS file system.

Look at the properties of the drive on which you're saving the videos.

I'm probably wrong, but nothing else comes to mind. Well, *my* mind, at
least.

--
Gene E. Bloch (Gino) letters617blochg3251
(replace the numbers by "at" and "dotcom")

On Mar 4, 7:04 pm, Gene E. Bloch <spamf...@nobody.invalid> wrote:

Oh, that's a good suggestion. I'll create a new file in a directory
that's more likely to work. Thanks!

Stacia

On Mar 4, 7:04 pm, Gene E. Bloch <spamf...@nobody.invalid> wrote:

Well, that didn't work. First, I wasn't able to change the
directory within Media Center -- the option was greyed out. I
recorded a movie I wanted to have on my laptop but I had to do it in 3
chunks, as the recording stopped at 20 minutes and again 60 minutes
later.
I tried a second movie and it stopped after 25 minutes, then again
after 18 more minutes. At that point I got the blue screen of death
and the computer shut down.
About a year ago I disabled Windows Messenger and when I start up
MC, it tells me Messenger wasn't found. I re-installed Messenger but
Media Center acts like it can't find it. I don't think that's the
problem, though, as I completely turn off my Internet connection when
using Media Center.
In short, I'm still completely flummoxed.

Stacia

On 3/04/2008, Stacia posted this:
Well, that doesn't address the problem at all.

The problem is not a new directory, but the structure of the file
system on your hard drive (actually, the file system on the partition
in use, to be unnecessarily precise). The entire file system!

Do this: Open a Windows Explorer window & right click on the icon for
the drive or partition you're using (I'm guessing that'll be C.

Choose "Properties" from the drop-down list. On the resulting window
(be sure you're on the "General" tab), about the third line down says -
on my computer - "File system: NTFS".

If yours says "FAT32" instead, there's your problem. A conversion
without loss is possible (but risky, or at least scary - back up
*everything* first).

--
Gene E. Bloch (Gino) letters617blochg3251
(replace the numbers by "at" and "dotcom")

On Mar 6, 1:17 pm, Gene E. Bloch <spamf...@nobody.invalid> wrote:

Thanks for explaining that to me, I've never really understood
Windows in any capacity, and I probably should have mentioned my lack
of knowledge. Anyway, the properties didn't say FAT32, so I guess
that wasn't the issue.
Daylight Savings Time accidentally caused me to find the issue --
the scheduler time on MC is wonky. For example, when I manually
record, if the program is supposed to end at 9:45 PM, I set the
scheduler end time to 10:00 PM just in case. But MC is off by an hour
and sometimes it ends at 9:00 PM because it thinks it's 10:00 PM. It
doesn't do this all the time. I don't know why it happens, but it's
an easy fix to just add an extra hour to the end of the scheduler
time.
Of course, that doesn't explain why I didn't have to mess with the
times at all when I first used the tuner several months ago, but I am
willing to chalk it up to quirk or my own faulty memory.

Stacia

Check your location/DST settings in the Time and Date control panel applet.
Media Center will get all messed up if that is wrong, even if the time
appears to be correct.
--
James
Orlando (Goofy says "Hey!"), FL

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