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26 Mar 2010   #1

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MCE Live TV Buffer Manager

Quote   Quote: Originally Posted by Editorial Review in PC world
I'm a big fan of using Windows Media Center as my DVR for watching and recording TV. But I do have one gripe: Very often I'll pause a show, only to return a while later to discover it has "unpaused." Why? Because Windows Media Center's default "pause buffer"--the amount of hard drive space reserved for live-TV storage--is just 30 minutes.

If you've got drive space to spare, you can increase the size of this buffer. One tiny tool makes it possible: MCE Live TV Buffer Manager. There's nothing to install: Just run the program, choose your desired buffer (any 15-minute increment between 30 and 120 minutes), and then click Apply. Reboot your PC and you're good to go.

Note: Although the author offers this program free of charge, he asks for donations to the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation.



--Rick Broida
MCE Live TV Buffer Manager | Utilities Download | PCWorld
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26 Mar 2010   #2

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Interesting, do you know if increasing it will help the "record from buffer" bug? Where it won't record a show if you have it buffered, but only from the point when you hit record?
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26 Mar 2010   #3

Windows 7 x64 Ultimate
A Finnish immigrant in Leipzig, Germany
 
 

I don't know, I have not tested yet though I installed this and put the buffer to 90 minutes.
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