[mythtv-users] Glitchy HDHR Recordings

[Dan Wilga]

At 1:03 PM -0400 9/25/09, James Orr wrote:
>What I don't really understand is why having the master backend 
>record something affects how the slave backend is doing it's 
>recording if there's no jobs running at the same time (i.e. the 
>slave backend comm flagging something on the master or vice versa).

It will if you have both backends and the HDHR on the same network. 
In order for the slave to record, it not only has to use the network 
to receive data from the HDHR, it also has to write lots of seektable 
data to the database on the master.

It wouldn't hurt for you to put the HDHR on a dedicated NIC inside 
the slave BE. The HDHR is designed so that you don't even need a hub 
or crossover cable to do this, just connect the two with a regular 
Ethernet cable.

Another possibility is something like what I was experiencing: a bad 
NIC. It was logging lots of receive errors whenever the HDHR was 
sending to the recording BE. My advice is to check the output of 
ifconfig and/or "ethtool -S".
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Dan Wilga                                                        "Ook."