[mythtv-users] Choppy playback on remote frontend only - 2 sec prebuffering pause

Craig Read craigread at csi.com
Tue May 3 04:07:53 UTC 2005


Craig Read wrote:

>
> Rudy Zijlstra wrote:
>
>>
>> Bob Wiegand wrote:
>>
>>>>
>>>> Up to this point I've been running frontend and backend on the same
>>>> machine, RH9 with a PVR350 and 250. I finally have setup another 
>>>> machine
>>>> to be a frontend. The playback on the new frontend pauses every 2
>>>> seconds for prebuffering in both LiveTV and recording playback, yet 
>>>> they
>>>> play fine on the combo frontend/backend.
>>>>   
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Are the files stored on the backend machine?
>>> I've had similar problems that seem to be due to poor NFS performance.
>>> If I share the drive using Samba it works - with NFS it doesn't.
>>>
>>>  
>>>
>> In that case, take a look at your network config. Such problems point 
>> towards network config problems. Those can range from wrong options 
>> used for nfs to faulty cables.
>
>
> I don't think it's his network config.
>
> I have exactly the same situation and problem.  I was running 0.16 
> frontend on a RH9 machine, backend running the previous version of 
> knoppmyth (upgraded to 2.6.9 kernel).  It ran flawlessly under those 
> conditions.  Under 0.17, the remote front end has choppy audio and 
> audio is consistently ~2 seconds out of sync.
>
> I'm about to totally remove the remote front end and re-install to see 
> if that helps. 


I actually resolved this.  I removed alsa from the RH machine and 
installed the latest version.

Craig...


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