[mythtv-users] FIXED: Can't reexport SMB share over NFS...what am I doing wrong?

Kevin Ross kevin at familyross.net
Wed Sep 15 19:40:53 UTC 2010


  On 09/15/2010 12:12 PM, Scott Alfter wrote:
> On 14 Sep 10 13:34, Scott Alfter wrote:
>> On 13 Sep 10 18:23, Kevin Kuphal wrote:
>>> On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 4:40 PM, Scott Alfter<scott at alfter.us>  wrote:
>>>> I'm now going through my collection with tsMuxeR, converting files from
>>>> Matroska to MPEG-2 transport streams (most of my files contain H.264
>>>> video and AC3 audio).  These files, once seektables are created for them,
>>>> play without a hitch.  The only downside is that I had backed up most of
>>>> the Matroska files to a stack of BD-Rs a while back, but I guess I can
>>>> redo this conversion from the backup in the future if necessary.
>>> I think mythtranscode can build seektables.  Check the command-line
>>> options.
>> Just tried that out, first on an .m4v file, then on an .mkv file that tsMuxeR
>> didn't like...tested it at work over VNC, so I can't see or hear it, but
>> mythfrontend didn't complain about prebuffering pauses and the backend appears
>> to be sending chunks to the frontend more frequently (about every 5 seconds vs.
>> every 20 seconds).  I'll double-check when I get home to make sure the file
>> plays properly; if it does, it looks like I won't have to convert all of my
>> files after all.  w00t!
> Followup: looks like it's all rather hit-or-miss.  Some files play properly;
> others (including one my fiancee and I wanted to watch last night...grr) throw
> up prebuffering pauses.  Running mythbackend with "-v database" (or even with
> "-v all") doesn't show any queries on the filemarkup table during playback for
> the files I've tried with it so far, which is puzzling...don't know if that
> particular type of activity isn't logged due to omission or if something else
> is going on.  One of the files that was troublesome when muxed as Matroska
> plays flawlessly when muxed as a transport stream.  It's looking more like I'll
> need to continue remuxing my collection after all.
>
> Scott Alfter
> scott at alfter.us
>

You could use mplayer for .mkv files, with the -cache command line 
option, which allows you to control how much mplayer prebuffers, to work 
around transient wi-fi slowdowns.


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