[mythtv-users] Playback stuttering on more-than-capable system

[Steven Adeff]

On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 9:51 AM, Mat Kyne <matkyne at gmail.com> wrote:
> Last Sunday I received the click of death from my Myth box's  primary hard
> drive.  I  lost everything.  (AKA : The big crash of '08) So I put in a new
> 320 GB HDD and went through the long process of getting everything up and
> running again. Just so you know:
>
> Combo Master Backend & Frontend:
> MythTV: Knoppmyth R5F27
> P4 - 3.06 GHz
> 2 x 512MB = 1024MB RAM (Dual Channel)
> Tuner (0) PCHDTV 3000
> Tuner (1) PCHDTV 5500
> 320 GB Western Digital EDIE Hard Drive
>  Nvidia GeForce 6200 128MB
> Display = 1080p LCD (over VGA)
>
> It records and plays back HD just fine for a while. But is seems like every
> other day or so when a recording is selected and begins playing, it will
> pause for half a second like every 3 seconds. It is very consistent. After a
> quick reboot everything works fine for a few more days.
>
> It might be useful to know that this does not happen on my remote front end
> that is running the same version of Knoppmyth. The only real difference is
> that it outputs to 720p.
>
> The question is what happens during a reboot that fixes my problems. Where
> should I look for log files that can help point me in the right direction.
> Any and all help would be appreciated.

have you tried just restarting mythfrontend to see if that solves the problem?


-- 
Steve
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