[mythtv-users] video stutter because of mythweather?

[Johnny Walker]

On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 3:26 PM, R. Ramesh <rramesh at verizon.net> wrote:

> Hi,
>
>  I have been trying to diagnose a periodic ~30sec video stutter with my
> 9400 GT VDPAU normal. I have mythbuntu 9.10 as the mythtv setup. Both
> backend and frontend are in the same machine. I received help from several
> in the thread and that improved the situation, but none really eliminated.
> (I also looked ad mythtv VDPAU wiki/doc and implemented the suggestions)
> Finally I found the mythfrontend log in /var/log/mythtv and it shows
> periodic run of mythweather data collection. I removed mythweather and it
> seems to have solved the problem. However, I want mythweather and other
> mythtv friend applets. How do I
> tell mythfrontend to stop them during the time I am watching HD video?
>
> BTW, mythweather is no issue when I am watching ripped DVD from another
> machine! I expect network activity like mythweather data collection to
> affect this more. But no issue there. So, may be disk access is a problem (I
> mean both mythweather and HD video is on the same disk. so..) Is there any
> buffer setting that
> can help me (I tried the one in backend-setup already)?
>
> Would streaming always from backend help even though both are in the same
> machine? I mean may be this
> will allow me to weather small moments of stress when mythweather is
> running since streaming will use buffers in RAM instead of reading from
> disk.
>
> Ramesh
>
>
Separating the recordings from the OS and Mysql drive would probably help
you the most. That's accomplished with storage groups.
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