What kind of storage device are you using with the SHIELD?
I am using an external 1TB verbatim HDD, formatted NTFS
Is it usb-powered or have a power brick? USB2 or USB3? The logs suggest the issue may be that the disk is not able to keep up with the new transcoder, which requires higher read/write throughput on the HDD
It is usb 3.0. USB powered, I will try disconnecting it and using the internal storage of the Shield to see if it helps and post updates. However this is the same external HDD I was using on my windows DVR server previously and I didn't run into this issue?
Could also be related to NTFS then, I'm not sure how fast the NTFS driver on Android is..
Update: So I went ahead and bought a Samsung 500GB SSD USB powered drive and tagged it as my primary drive and, I tagged my 1TB Verbatim USB HDD as a storage device. What a difference it made, I am now able to transcode HDHR Live and recordings @ 0.99x 60 fps, 1080p 10mbps, WITHOUT using the Old Transcoder, I am still using Hardware Transcoder, Linear Deinterlacer, adaptive streaming is off. Thanks for your help!, I will post any other updates as they come.
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I unfortunately just posted a similar issue. Based on this discussion here, it sounds like the speed of the hard drive is the issue here and a SSD drive solved your problem. Am I correct?
Yes, The SSD solved all of my transcoding issues, I would also make sure to format a new drive to exfat, otherwise you may run into file size restrictions and errors with new DVR recordings.