[mythtv-users] Streaming better than NFS

[Brad DerManouelian]

Brian Foddy wrote:
> Playing this weekend, I found the AlwaysStreamFiles setting, and even tho my
> FE has the single filesystem NFS always mounted, I decided to try it.  Partly,
> because I felt it might transfer some cpu load to the BE, and the files are
> all local on the BE. 
> 
> I found skipping, FF to be much more responsive than with NFS.  Overall
> FE cpu load was also lower.  Very little jitter after a FF that used to happen
> for a few seconds while it cached up the new location.

Sounds like you didn't have your NFS stuff fully tuned. It's typically 
set up for lots of tiny file transfers, not one or two huge files.