On Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 11:00:39AM -0600, Roberto Mello wrote: > I have a Myth frontend machine where I get frequent "prebuffering" pauses. > It causes the video -- particularly on Live TV -- to be jerky. I'm only > doing standard TV, no fancy HD. > > The backend server is an Athlon 1.8 GHz, 512 MiB of RAM. The frontend > where the problem happens is a Dual P3 with 512 MiB of RAM. Everyone has > DMA enabled. > > The frontend plays videos from the backend via an NFS share from the > server, and mplayer has no problems whatsoever with that. The jerkyness > ONLY happens when playing MythTV-recorded content. > > I've tried a number of things, like running the frontend as root to get > "realtime priority"; replacing the video card with a fancier Nvidia MX > 5200; making sure the network card has the right kernel options to have > full duplex; and a number of other things. > > Nothing seems to do the trick. I have another frontend (a Pentium M 1.7 > laptop) that has no problems playing any type of content. > > Hints? Questions? is my dual P3 just too slow to handle mythtv streams? > Can I do something? > > -Roberto
Are you using 100mb/s networking? Wireless and even 10mb/s can do this. --Brandon /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
