[mythtv-users] Can't use MacOS X frontend on wireless network
Bryan Murphy
bryan at terralab.com
Sun Jan 9 14:15:37 EST 2005
Same problem here. I think it has more to do with OSX + MythTV than the
network, but I have no idea how to fix it. That being said, I've found
that disabling other network programs (ssh, fire, web browser, etc.)
helps considerably.
Also, on my iBook (1.2ghz + 1g RAM), MythTV runs 60%+ and spikes much
higher. Firefox sucks up a lot of CPU, so I have an especially hard
time watching TV and browsing concurrently. In my experience, the OSX
sheduler isn't even in the same league as the one my Linux box. When I
have all the various processes reniced to give MythTV the highest
priority, it still stutters when I do something else. Compare that to
my Linux box which I can be doing 10 things at once and it NEVER skips.
MythTV on Linux is bleeding edge. MythTV on OSX is bleeding edge of a
bleeding edge. I expect it to improve over time. ;)
Bryan
Eggert Thorlacius wrote:
> Hello
>
> I am having problems streaming video from my backend server to a MacOS
> X frontend on a wireless network.
>
> I have a FC2 machine running a combination frontend/backend with the
> 0.16 distribution from atrpms on a machine that is connected to my
> TV. I can also hook my Mac up to Ethernet and use it as a frontend,
> but if I try using the Mac on my wireless network, the video stops
> after a few minutes and the frontend goes back to the MythTV menus. I
> would suspect that the wireless network isn't handling the load, but
> when I try downloading episodes through MythWeb, I can download a 30
> minute nuv file in 7 minutes (2.4 Mb/s), so I should have enough
> bandwidth, right? It seems that a lot of people on this list are
> using wireless frontends without problems. Is is perhaps a bug in the
> Mac client?
>
> In the console log on the Mac frontend:
> 2005-01-08 19:28:36 Using protocol version 13
> 2005-01-08 19:28:40 Changing from None to WatchingRecording
> 2005-01-08 19:31:24 RemoteFile::Read() failed in RingBuffer::safe_read().
> 2005-01-08 19:31:27 Changing from WatchingRecording to None
> 2005-01-08 19:31:27 Changing from None to None
> Waiting for data: 7232 13647
>
> In /var/log/mythtv/mythbackend.log on the server:
> 2005-01-08 19:28:37 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback
> 2005-01-08 19:28:37 adding: mori.heima.net as a client (events: 0)
> 2005-01-08 19:28:37 MainServer::HandleAnnounce FileTransfer
> 2005-01-08 19:28:37 adding: mori.heima.net as a remote file transfer
> 2005-01-08 19:28:37 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback
> 2005-01-08 19:28:37 adding: mori.heima.net as a client (events: 0)
> 2005-01-08 19:31:25 WriteBlock(): Aborting WriteBlock, write to socket
> failed!
>
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Eggert Thorlacius
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