[mythtv-users] Suddenly taking very long time to start playback of recordings

[Roald]

Hi list.

After upgrading mythtv to 0.25.3 it suddenly takes over 1 minute from
I start a recording to it actually plays on the TV. I am not sure it
happened at the same time, but I first noticed it the day after I
upgraded. Nothing else changed on either the frontend or backend.

Here's the log from mythfrontend -v playback

2012-12-20 18:37:50.323181 I  TV: Creating TV object
2012-12-20 18:37:50.344683 I  TV: Finished creating TV object
2012-12-20 18:37:50.344865 I  TV: StartTV() -- begin
2012-12-20 18:37:50.345170 N  Resuming idle timer
2012-12-20 18:37:50.345286 N  Suspending idle timer
2012-12-20 18:37:50.345309 I  TV: Init -- begin
2012-12-20 18:37:50.358631 I  TV: Created TvPlayWindow.
2012-12-20 18:37:50.358946 I  TV: DrawUnusedRects() -- begin
2012-12-20 18:37:50.358974 I  TV: DrawUnusedRects() -- end
2012-12-20 18:37:50.364409 I  TV: Init -- end
2012-12-20 18:37:50.366018 I  TV: tv->Playback() -- begin
2012-12-20 18:37:50.386545 I  TV: HandleStateChange(0) -- begin
2012-12-20 18:37:50.386607 I  TV: Attempting to change from None to
WatchingPreRecorded
2012-12-20 18:37:50.405146 I
FileRingBuf(/shared/media/Myth/Store/1007_20121220155800.mpg):
OpenFile(/s
hared/media/Myth/Store/1007_20121220155800.mpg, 2000 ms)
2012-12-20 18:39:47.616348 I  TV: StartPlayer(0, WatchingPreRecorded,
main) -- begin
2012-12-20 18:39:47.616534 I  TV: Elapsed time since TV constructor
was called: 117293 ms
2012-12-20 18:39:47.991045 N  AudioPlayer: Enabling Audio
2012-12-20 18:39:48.010278 I  Player(1): Stretch Factor 1, allow passthru
2012-12-20 18:39:48.013330 I  AFD: Buffer size: 32768, streamed 0
2012-12-20 18:39:48.203908 I  AFD: Stream #0, has id 0x1e0 codec id
MPEG2VIDEO, type Video, bitrate 6000
000 at 0x56fa920
2012-12-20 18:39:48.245651 I  VDP: Accepting: cmp(> 0 0) dec(vdpau)
cpus(1) skiploop(enabled) rend(vdpau
) osd(vdpau) osdfade(enabled) deint(vdpaubobdeint,vdpauonefield)
filt(vdpauskipchroma,vdpaucolorspace=au
to)

The fileshare is mounted with NFS, as it has been since about 2004. Is
there a limit to how many files there can be in a store? I have many
recordings.

I tried unmounting the NFS filesystem on the frontend, and then it
started playing back instantaneously. However, I would like to have
the share there, as I use it for music and for a few other programs
available on the frontend. I don't care whether the recording plays
via streaming or via NFS.

There used to be an option "Always stream recordings from the backend"
but I can't seem to find it? Has it disappeared or just moved away
from General Playback (1/8) (taken from the wiki)?