Tips On System Optimization - Hauppauge WinTV-PVR-250 Installation And Reference Manual

Tips on System Optimization

These are tips that will help you improve capture and playback perfor-
mance of video files on you PC.
1.) Do not use DoubleSpace or any other disk compression scheme!
This severely slows down your hard disk.
2.) Make sure DMA is checked for your Hard disk drives in Device
Manager. Right click your mouse on the My Computer icon on
your desktop, and click on Properties. Click on the Device
Manager tab and double click on Disk Drives. Highlight GENERIC
IDE DISK TYPE and click on Properties. Click on Settings. Make
sure DMA is selected. Note: in Windows XP (enable write caching)
3.) Defragment your Hard Disk. To Defragment your hard disk, in
Windows click on Start / Programs / Accessories / System Tools
and click on Disk Defragmenter.
4.) You can use 7200 RPM disk drives. Also, there are several hard
disks on the market which are designed for higher performance
video captures. These drives use 1:1 interleaving and track caching
to eliminate gaps caused by a hard disk drive seeking to the next
track. They are available with both IDE and SCSI interfaces.
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