DVR makes my system slow why?

[xx408]

Hello
DVR makes my system slow why?
I have:
Centrino core duo 2.16 GHz
(Genuine Intel(R) CPU T2600 @ 2.16GHz)
RAM 2 GB.
And when I use DVR the System is extremely slow
Can anybody explain me why? And
How can I solve this problem?
Thank you

[Ralf]

Hello xx408,

it's slow, because it has a lot to do...

Think about: Each record has 3 - 6 GB!

If you process a record, your PC must handle this volume 3 times. The processor of your PC is not the critical part. This is your hard drive.

You get a higher performance, if you divide the work steps to 2 hard drives, so the program can read from first drive and write on the secound drive at the same time, without repositioning the heads of the hard drive.

[xx408]

Hello Ralf
Thank you for yor replay.
Did you mean a second Hard Drive or another Partition?
when I use The DVR The CPU usage is only 20%
and Free RAM 1.4 GB.
you are right it is not the Procesor.

Mit Freyndlichen Gruessen

xx408

[Ralf]

Hello xx408,

you need a second hard drive. A second partition makes no sense, then it is the same physically hard drive.

[wohliks]

Did you mean a second Hard Drive or another Partition?

A physical drive! Another partition doesn't make sense because during demultiplexing DVR Studio is simultaneously reading the source data and writing the target data. That causes the harddisk moving it's heads like crazy between reading the source file and writing the target file.

Only a second physical drive can prevent that: Reading from the first drive, writing to the second - ideally installed at another IDE-channel - runs very smooth and with nearly no harddisc head noise!

...and much faster, too: On one drive I get about 4-5 MByte/s, from drive to drive about 9-10 MByte/s!

Greetings Bernhard

[xx408]

Thanks a lot
I will do as you said

see you