[mythtv-users] Playback problem -- random short pauses

[Kenneth Emerson]

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> > Last Friday I switched from .24-fixes to master and I have yet to
> experience
> > any of the pauses I was complaining about.  I'll give it another week and
> > report back, but this is the best experience with playback I have had in
> > about six months.
> >
> > -- Ken E
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> Ken, any updates on the three playback issues while running from trunk?
>
> --
> SteveThe issue isn't nearly as bad as it was when I was on 24-fixes
> (caveat: there have been many backports of changes made from master to
> 24-fixes that I have not tested).
>
> Almost all pauses that I see now (but not all) occur when a recording is
> starting or ending.  The pause is very short (one second or less).  There
> are occasional (guessing once for every 3 or 4 hours of watching recordings)
> pauses that don't coincide with other recordings starting/stopping.  They
> are also very short in duration.  I've never seen a correlation between the
> random pauses and high disk or CPU activity.
>
> I'm not sure I can give you accurate information (regarding the original
> problem) since I have since changed my hardware configuration significantly.
>  My cpu went from a quad-core 2.6gHz to a quad-core 3.3gHz.  I changed my
> recording drive from LVM on four 1TB drives in a RAID5 configuration to 5
> 1TB drives in a RAID6 configuration. My  motherboard is different (still
> Asus).
>
> In my opinion, this shouldn't have affected the problems I was seeing, but
> it adds confusion.
>
> You can notice the pauses but they are not so distracting as to cause
> complaints (WAF back to normal, acceptable levels ;-) )
>
> -- Ken E.
>
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