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Would it be possible in a future version to be able to set the grabber to run at a lower thread priority? Perhaps as a command-line switch which could be added to the /GRAB option for scheduled downloads.

The only reason I say this is I just worked out why two recordings made with GB-PVR of Rough Science (BBC2 Learning Zone 5:30am - 6am) have gone a bit screwy. I thought last week's one could be due to new Hauppauge drivers - about 2/3 of the way in it started jumping/stuttering then settled down again. I just watched this morning's recording and it did the same thing but with different drivers in place. Weird.

I then realised that both happened ~20 mins in to the recording. I have a scheduled XMLTV grab at 5:50am each morning.

Using Task Manager and doing a manual grab, I see the xmltvrt.exe goes into a prolonged 99% CPU usage during the post-processing stage. I'm pretty sure this must be what caused the temporary corruption of the recordings.

Cheers,
Brian

i'll put this in the next release for you. in the meantime you can use my priority setter from http://www.birtles.org.uk/run/ to do it:
priorityrun 0 "c:\program files\xmltvgui\xmltvgui" /grab

Hi Alan,

Sorry for the slow response.

Thanks for putting this in on the next release. There's another Rough Science due to record at 5:30am this morning so I'll try your priority manager. It's the only programme I have which records at this timeslot so it'll show whether my diagnosis was correct or not.

Cheers,
Brian

this option is now available in version 3.06