On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 8:56 PM, Adam Charrett <a...@dvbstreamer.org> wrote:
> On Sun, 2009-09-13 at 20:18 +1200, Bernard Mentink wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> >
> > For some time I have been using dvbstreamer/livepause to watch TV and
> > I use either VLC or mplayer to watch
> > the stream.
> >
> >
> > I am having a lot of issues with micro pauses and block playback,
> > especially after 5 minutes or so from changing channels
> > (i.e a new livepause buffer) the effect is more noticeable with
> > mplayer than VLC but still an issue .
> >
> >
> > It seems the pauses co-inside with disk activity.
>
> That makes senses, as livepause is not being able to write/read from the
> disk faster enough to supply vlc/mplayer.
>
> >
> > Does anyone know what I can do to improve this? I have played around
> > with livepause buffer sizes and mplayer cache, but to little effect.
>
> There are 2 ways round this one expensive, one cheap. Either
> 1. Buy a faster harddisk (expensive)
> 2. Stop the other disk activity while you are watching TV. Do you have
> yum/apt update happening while you are watching TV?
>
> Cheers
>
> Adam
>
>
>
Hi Adam,
Thanks for that. I figured as much. No there is no distro update happening
during that time. I have a very minimal install of Archlinux which only has
services running which I have started ...
which is why I decided to use Arch .. it is very sleek and fast .. even with
KDE.
I think I may be up for option 1. AT the moment I have a medium speed ATA
drive. I think I will install a fast SATA drive and dedicate it to media.
Cheers,
Bernie
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