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

Kevin Ross kevin at familyross.net
Thu May 12 03:40:06 UTC 2011


On 5/11/2011 8:23 PM, David Whyte wrote:
> On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 1:00 PM, Kevin Ross<kevin at familyross.net>  wrote:
>> Actually I just increased my log level by adding -v file (to the already
>> existing -v playback), and I noticed a long list of "Marked as 'watched'"
>> and "Not the ealiest" with all my shows, which happens at the same time as
>> those "PREVIEW_SUCCESS" messages, and the dropped frames.  I guess this is
>> the auto-expire causing dropped frames that was already mentioned?
>>
>
> Perhaps!  I reported that correlation between short pauses and the
> autoexpire event but I don't think it is a mythTV issue at all
> anymore.  I think maybe my HDD is performing terribly which is *very*
> noticeable when autoexpires occur and cause the short pauses.  See
> http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/479667#479667  I
> won't know for sure until I repartition my HDD, but this won't be
> anytime in the next fortnight.
>
> It may be worth you looking into whether you have a similar hardware
> performance problem or it could be completely unrelated.
>
> Cheers,
> Whytey

My hard drives are not the most performant ones around, and that could 
be the problem.  I am going to try increasing the kBufferSize in 
RingBuffer.cpp to see if that helps.



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