[mythtv-users] Really bad prebuffering pauses

[Michael T. Dean]

On 09/06/2008 11:00 AM, Paul Woodward wrote:
> Wondering if anyone could help me out here.
>
> I've got one frontend that is suffering really badly from pauses, in
> order (worst first) the circumstances are:
> - watching a recording of something that is still in progress
> - live TV
> - watching a recording
>
> Not all recordings are affected to the same degree - I think lower res
> recordings skip less.
>
> I've got 2 stand-alone frontends and a combined front/backend - it's
> only one of the standalone frontends that is affected, here are the
> specs of that machine:
> P4 3.0 Ghz Hyperthreading on turned on.
> 1.5Gb RAM
> GeForce4 MX 440 AGP (using nvidia legacy driver 96.43.05)
> MAudio Revolution 7.1
>
> All shows are recorded from UK DVB-T without any transcoding.
>
> Top shows that during playback, ~30% CPU is used. I've tried various
> playback CPU profiles, but none seem to have a dramatic effect -
> 'Normal' is currently selected.

Perhaps http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/349300#349300 ?

Mike