whats the best format to record on

[rabies]

i have a 16gb usb stick and want to use it with the pvr function of my S10, what should i format it to fat32 or ntfs.
thanks
rabies

[hooley]

Let the box format it for you

[nibblitz]

I find NTFS works fine, so does Fat32, but I have found my memory stick to not be fast enough for HD recording, occasionally a message pops up saying its not fast enough and it drops frames, so I use a hard disk instead, NTFS, works great..

[rabies]

thanks, easy when you know how.

nibblitz i got that pop up to and thought i needed a different stick DOH!

[nibblitz]

I think it would need at least a Class 6 SD Card in a USB adaptor to cope with HD video.. I dont think common pen drives (usb memory sticks) have the fastest memory in 'em...

[Gerry1]

i have a 16gb usb stick and want to use it with the pvr function of my S10, what should i format it to fat32 or ntfs.
thanks
rabies

From my experience on hard drive formatting and I don't think that flash drives are any different in that fat32 formatting does not support file sizes greater than 4gb which most SD films come under unless of course you are recording HD which tend to be greater than 4GB. Ntfs will though support any file size.

[spider man]

Recording quality

Sorry guys. I have a question also related to the PVR finction on S10. I have 160 gb USB hard disk conected on my box, however I can only manage to record about 2 hours. Do you guys think that this is ok? Is there any feature where I can change the recording quality in order to use my 16ogb to record more than 2 hours?

[slugworth]

moot

From my experience on hard drive formatting and I don't think that flash drives are any different in that fat32 formatting does not support file sizes greater than 4gb which most SD films come under unless of course you are recording HD which tend to be greater than 4GB. Ntfs will though support any file size.

openbox records in 1gig chunks,so a moot point even with hd.