[mythtv-users] Live TV is smooth, recorded shows jerky - solved.

[Bruce Markey]

Larry Matter wrote:
> I have seen a few postings on this list where watching live TV is very
> smooth, but recorded shows exhibit stuttering with prebuffering pauses.
> 
> I also had this behavior and it was puzzled by it.  There's not much
> difference between watching Live TV and watching a recorded program.
> 
> Long story short, I accidently solved it when, for other reasons, I
> dropped and recreated the mythtv schema *and* deleted all my .nuv files. 
> I'm pretty sure it was the latter that solved it.
> 
> I don't understand the inner workings of ext3 (the filesystem used on my
> mythtv disk); I'm not sure why streaming from the ring buffer was fine but
> streaming from these 2.2 gig files was problematic.  But cleaning up the
> disk (I did not reformat it) did the trick.

Were you ever to a point where auto-expire was used? What
would you estimate was the maximum percentage full your
video partition had ever been?

--  bjm