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<blockquote data-quote="mikeyp" data-source="post: 1206606" data-attributes="member: 154511">Thank you for your quick and detailed response.Interesting. I figured as much about the codec response. What's peculiar is the way it simply dies and does not recover as you may see with a poor signal. Let me expand on your points to see if that helps...<ul>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">I guess it could be a signal strength issue, but I think that unlikely. I moved house in July and the problem followed with the machine to the new satellite dish unchanged. Signal quality and strength is pretty decent as you'll see in the screenshots in a minute. Let me know what you think.</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">It is possible the hard drive is causing the issues. It's not the best drive in the world but it's a separate drive from the OS, and &quot;E:\Recorded TV&quot; is an excluded location in Windows Defender. Is it worth excluding any MediaPortal processes?</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">I did wonder about possible driver/card issues. I'm not the only person who seems to be having problems with TBS cards. Mine is a dual tuner TBS6982 on the most recent driver on their website, v1.0.0.6. If I re-find any posts I read before, I'll link them.</li>
</ul>I'm open to any explanations that may help me fix this, so I'm not discounting anything at this stage. You're the experts. ;-)As I've been typing, I ran the time shifting as you suggested. In the first screenshot the signal quality died within a minute and then I got the discontinuities you mentioned. Before the signal dies, the discontinuities were at zero. On the second run, it just ran and ran without issue.I'll re-run it on ITV HD in a minute and re-post.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="mikeyp, post: 1206606, member: 154511"] Thank you for your quick and detailed response. Interesting. I figured as much about the codec response. What's peculiar is the way it simply dies and does not recover as you may see with a poor signal. Let me expand on your points to see if that helps... [LIST] [*]I guess it could be a signal strength issue, but I think that unlikely. I moved house in July and the problem followed with the machine to the new satellite dish unchanged. Signal quality and strength is pretty decent as you'll see in the screenshots in a minute. Let me know what you think. [*]It is possible the hard drive is causing the issues. It's not the best drive in the world but it's a separate drive from the OS, and "E:\Recorded TV" is an excluded location in Windows Defender. Is it worth excluding any MediaPortal processes? [*]I did wonder about possible driver/card issues. I'm not the only person who seems to be having problems with TBS cards. Mine is a dual tuner TBS6982 on the most recent driver on their website, v1.0.0.6. If I re-find any posts I read before, I'll link them. [/LIST] I'm open to any explanations that may help me fix this, so I'm not discounting anything at this stage. You're the experts. ;-) As I've been typing, I ran the time shifting as you suggested. In the first screenshot the signal quality died within a minute and then I got the discontinuities you mentioned. Before the signal dies, the discontinuities were at zero. On the second run, it just ran and ran without issue. I'll re-run it on ITV HD in a minute and re-post. [/QUOTE]

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