HD PVR 1212 250mb or less error message - solutions?

[yoda313]

Ok I have the hdpvr 1212 capture unit from hauppauge. I have had this message before. The annoying thing is it cuts off the recording and you have to start all over again.

It comes up with a message that there is only 250mb or less storage space and aborts the capture. Of course I have over 300gb free on the internal harddrive I'm using for recording.

I looked at the faq's on the hauppauge website and didn't see anything. I looked at a few pages on a google search for this website and didn't see a direct connection.

Since this has happened more than once I know its not a fluke. It's not totally annoying but losing an hour dubbing is irritating.

Has anybody else had this message? I have been able to continue recording after exiting the program and starting over.

Edit - oh and of course its windows vista premium 32bit and the drive is ntfs. it actually recorded to a 5.5gb file for an hour and half at 7mb/s with 5.1 audio. It just didn't keep recording to the end of the two hour movie.

[SHS]

Have you try update TME. the latest ver 1.0.9.9?.
Are all your drive NTFS?.

[yoda313]

I don't have the version number in front of me but it was just updated the other week. With Media Extreme I can now watch in full screen while it is capturing not just windowed. Is that the latest version?

Yes all the drives are ntfs - I have two internal - the os drive is ntfs and my capture drive is ntfs.

[jagabo]

Mine's never done anything like that. I've recorded 3+ hour movies at the highest bitrate settings without problems.

[yoda313]

Mine's never done anything like that. I've recorded 3+ hour movies at the highest bitrate settings without problems.

Well its good to know its not a severe defect.

I've only had this happen a couple of times. I haven't had it happen enough to nail down symptoms.

As I said this was recording at 7mb/s with 5.1 and I didn't mention the resolution which was 1280x720 and through the component inputs (obviously since I mentioned fiber optic - it can't record standard def over composite and fiber optic can it?).

[vhelp]

evening guys.. yeah, I have the 2250 (unused) but not your 1212 issue.

I've had this phenomina, also related to the Pinnacle PCTV Pro* and the ATI MMC software since it would use the percentage as the space tracking mechanism. I never did quite nail down the symtom but I do theorize that it is related to hdd fragmentation, if it doesn't find a large enough free contiguous space to keep a backup as it records then it reports low space or stops recording all together. Very frustrating when you have plenty of hdd space and it can't find a simple contiguous area on the hdd and throw this message every time. I hate that!

* ( TVCenter Pro 5.4 Update - 12/18/2008 ) -- issue w/ limited space warning suffered only this ver, but prior versions did not suffer this.

-vhelp 5255

[SHS]

I don't have the version number in front of me but it was just updated the other week. With Media Extreme I can now watch in full screen while it is capturing not just windowed. Is that the latest version?

Yes all the drives are ntfs - I have two internal - the os drive is ntfs and my capture drive is ntfs.

Where is saying TotalMedia Extreme dbl click on word it the about box should open any way it sound like you have the latest being you can go full screen which none of older ver did.

[yoda313]

@vhelp - thanks for the info. Maybe I'll do a defrag on my capture drive. Wouldn't hurt.