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Automated recording times possible with H320?
cbr12:
I have recently noticed that the countdown timer is a little bit slow. For example, when I record a 1 hour segment each day at 6 o'clock with a record repeat set every 1 day the next recording will be approximately 13-14 minutes later then what I intended. For the first day it will record from 6:00-7:00, the next day it will record 6:13-7:13, the next day 6:26-7:26 and so on. Is there any way the timer can be calibrated to be more precise?
Mmmm:
Oh bugger.... really?
Does this also happen if you only use the countdown timer over 1 day? ie not the repeat timer? It'd be good if we knew exactly which one was causing the problem (as both functions are used with the repeat timer).
Mmmm:
I've been running the timer for nearly 3 hours by itself and so far it seems to be keeping good time. your figures suggest it should lose about 0.5 seconds every minute I think, so I should have noticed something after 3 hours....
I'll leave it longer but this suggests it is purely the repeat timer code. I'll have a look at that some time..
It's a bit odd though because the repeat timer code is only executed once per cycle which means that 13 minutes are chopped off in one go... weird...It must be something fairly obvious then... hmmmmm....
cbr12:
I dont think the timer is chopping it by 13 minutes in one cycle. It is a gradual process because the timer (at least on my Irivers) is not insync with with my watch. I just tried a 30 minute countdown trial and the Iriver timer was 18 seconds slower than my watch (This was not the record repeat timer). If you do the math that would account for about 14 minutes in a 24 hour period. I get the same results for the H120 and H320. Keep me updated if you figure anything else out or want me to try any other tests.
bascule:
So is the RTC on your player at fault? That's what it sounds like, although I imagine that would be exteremely unusual...
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