On Mon, November 23, 2009 8:38 pm, Trevor Michel-Smith wrote:
> Thanks Adam.
>
> I have a Western Digital 320G SATA HDD.  dmesg reports the SATA link is up
> at 3Gbps.  I am using the EXT4 file system.
>
> The full HDD description is:
> WD3200AAKS-75VYA0 Western Digital Caviar Blue 320GB 7200RPM SATA-300 16MB
> Cache 3.5-Inch Internal Hard Drive
>
> *
> Here is the hdparm output from the read test (not sure how to do a write
> test):
> [r...@saturn-tv trevor]# hdparm -tT /dev/sda3
>
> /dev/sda3:
>  Timing cached reads:   1946 MB in  2.00 seconds = 973.06 MB/sec
>  Timing buffered disk reads:  236 MB in  3.02 seconds =  78.19 MB/sec
>
> The HDD appears to be fast enough to handle two SD video channel write
> streams and one read stream, but I may be wrong.

Ok, can you try the same as I suggested to Bernie.

> Is there a way to disable livepause and stream live TV direct to mplayer?
>  In my local_conf.py file, I tried removing the
> activate.plugin('tv.livepause') and leave the tv.mplayer plugin active.
> In
> this case I could still pause live TV so I guess livepause is imbedded
> somehow.

If you've removed tv.livepause, then no its not embedded any where else.
You can still pause mplayer or xine even when on there own but you loose
all the data being broadcast while they are paused.


> If I could do this, I could either elliminate or confirm that livepause is
> or is not the problem.

I rather suspect its the near live or end of buffer problems you are
experiencing.

Cheers

Adam


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