[mythtv-users] Seeking in MythMusic on network files
James L. Paul
james at mauibay.net
Wed Dec 31 12:25:27 EST 2003
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On Wednesday 31 December 2003 05:15, Kevin Kuphal wrote:
> It seems that sometimes I can seek around fine when playing files and other
> times it seems to take anywhere from 15-60 seconds for the seek to register
> and all that time the music is playing but the duration timer is halted and
> MythMusic does not respond to input. This seems to be directly related to
> the fact that I have the files mounted via smbfs from my windows box as it
> does not occur with locally played files.
This seems odd to me, since mythmusic uses the database, not the filesystem,
to navigate my music list. None of my music is local, it's all on my server
via ethernet. I'm using nfs, but it shouldn't make any difference whether the
directory is mounted via nfs or smb. In fact, I can browse my music list even
if I have the remote directory unmounted.
Perhaps you have a performance issue with the server the files are on? If it's
being insanely slow to serve the files, maybe you are seeking a blocking
issue in MythMusic on those occasions your Myth box is waiting for the smb
server to fulfill a request? I have considerable experience with Samba and I
would doubt it's to blame, more likely a networking or fileserver issue that
is causing halted or stuttered file transfer.
> Any suggestions on improving this or do I just need to copy the files
> locally?
Not much to suggest, sorry. Perhaps try browsing your remote music files
manually from a terminal or something like Nautilus or Konquerer to see if
you can see any obvious performance issues, or script up some timing tests.
As always, check your logs for smb or network errors or timeouts. Watch CPU
and other resources on the box in realtime to see if anything unusual
coincides with the problem when it happens. And good luck!
> Mounted using this basic syntax:
> mount -t smbfs -o username=tridge,password=foobar //fjall/test
> /data/test
>
> Kevin Kuphal
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