Well, I did add another drive, it is one highly recommended HERE
It is a very nice drive, supposed to be an "A/V" class drive, meaning it should have better sustained output bandwidth and also should be able to run 24/7.
It didn't help, the problem is just as noticeable with this drive. In fact, it is quite interesting, this particular drive has a blue power light, and a reddish drive activity light, so you can tell accurately when the VIP722 has to access the drive to pull more data. These skips occur like clockwork on these accesses. Not every single time the drive is accessed, but when it does skip, it coincides with a drive access.
I'm pretty much not going to try to worry about it as much, because I have pretty good success watching other material. (Even music concerts off of HDNET)
I'm using the external drives to move off other stuff and leave enough room on the internal drive to hold 4 or 5 concerts at a time for weekends.
And of course hope for a firmware update that may help someday.
Shouldn't say this, but I'm glad somebody else is having the problem, misery loves company![]()
No problem at all. I was equally happy to find your post!
I'm no engineer, but I think the problem could be solved for everyone, and also allow the use of even the crappiest of external drives, if unit played back by first "buffer recording" to the internal drive. It wouldn't take much space, and yes, there'd be just a bit of a delay before playback began, but if you were, in essence, copying from the external to the internal drive in endless loop fashion, and playing from the internal drive, I think it would likely work perfectly. I'd be happy to give up a few hundred MB of internal drive space for the sake of a buffer.
Mark