[mythtv-users] Recording/playing back same file via NFS

[Brad DerManouelian]

I've got all my media drives in my master backend (and 1 SD tuner)  
and my main frontend box (and a SD and HD tuner) is in the living  
room with just a boot drive. They are connected via a gigabit switch  
and have verified the switch sees both as gigabit and I see transfer  
speeds exceeding 100mbit. I NFS mount my media drives to my frontend  
so I can either stream recordings from the backend or read the video  
files from the NFS mounted drive.

I can record SD and HD on the machine that writes to the NFS share  
and view HD either streamed from the backend or from the NFS share at  
the same time as long as what I'm recording and what I'm viewing are  
different recordings. Therefore, I have ruled out bandwidth as an  
issue. The problem comes is when I try to view something that's  
currently being recorded. It happen with both LiveTV and scheduled  
recordings. It happens when I'm near the live TV point or if I start  
watching something nearing the end of the recording. I get rather  
frequent pauses in the video so that it is unwatchable. Like every  
3-5 seconds. This is even with the master backend recording SD and  
the frontend trying to play it back with no other activity between  
the machines.

I've tried following the optimization settings on the wiki page. I've  
tried switching from sync to async in the NFS settings. Anyone have a  
solution? The relevant part of my current fstab file looks like this:
mythtv2.amade.us:/mnt/tvrecordings /tvrecordings nfs  
actimeo=0,intr,soft,rsize=32768,wsize=32768,nfsvers=3,tcp 0 0

I've tried it with 16k and 8k rsize and wsize values with the same  
results.

My /etc/exports file on the server looks like this:
/mnt/tvrecordings  livingroom.amade.us(rw,sync,anonuid=0,anongid=0)

and I've tried it this way:
/mnt/tvrecordings  livingroom.amade.us(rw,async,anonuid=0,anongid=0)

Any ideas?

Thanks,

brad


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