[mythtv-users] NFS or SAMBA for Video Stream

Michael T. Dean mtdean at thirdcontact.com
Wed Jan 11 08:53:23 UTC 2006


James C. Dastrup wrote:

>Movies ripped by mythtv don't require much bandwidth at all to play - I would be
>surprised if it had anything to do with NFS vs SAMBA and proper tuning.  Have
>you verified that there is no pause if you were to play them from a local HDD relative
>to the frontend? Can you play them from another frontend or even a Windows PC?
>
>It could be something else, such as an IRQ conflict between your NIC and another
>device, another process using high CPU every 5 minutes, etc.
>  
>
If you're using 8KiB rsize and wsize with UDP, it will probably have the 
occasional glitch.  When I use those settings, I see glitches even with 
1000kbps MPEG-4.

Mike


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