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I've been having issues with my recordings of the olympics. In the guide, it just has these huge blocks of time (sometimes 8 -10 hours long) that it treats as a single show. What I'm seeing is that when I get about 5 or 6 hours in to these files, the video starts stuttering and has long pauses. Usually stopping and restarting playback fixes it for a couple of minutes then it starts again.
The files are recorded on a WD black 1TB hard drive, so I don't think drive speed should be the issue here. It seems like Media Center is just having issues with these huge files (some are > 50 GB each).
I was just wondering if any one else had seen this and whether you'd found a solution. How are you recording the olympics? I guess it could just put in manual recordings to break up the big blocks. Is there a master schedule somewhere of what exactly is on when? It would be nice to be able to record more selectively.
Edit: Well, I found the more detailed schedule on NBC's web site, so I guess manual recordings will work for me. If anyone has tried other things that work, I'd still like to hear about them 
That's quite odd. I'm recording every single XXX Summer Olympics program onto a Hitachi 5K3000 and haven't had an issue. With my other normal slate of programs, there are sometimes up to 7 or 8 simultaneous recordings. The WD Black drive should be faster than my "Green" drive so I wouldn't think that would be an issue unless there's a defect in the drive. Are you performing any commercial detection? This could result in excessive drive activity if not constrained.
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