[mythtv-users] Jitters during playback

[Mitchell Gore]

On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 9:46 PM, Mitchell Gore <mitchell.gore at gmail.com>wrote:

> Well...I think I am finally on to something.  I did more testing with my
> one frontend that doesnt have to have VDPAU running I still get errors.  I
> started wondering if it was signal issues again.  Looking at my Prime im
> nearly 100% across the board.  The for what ever reason I looked at my
> backends ethernet interfaces.  upon running ifconfig I see:
>
> eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:0c:29:13:4d:14
>           inet addr:192.168.0.10  Bcast:192.168.0.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
>           inet6 addr: fe80::20c:29ff:fe13:4d14/64 Scope:Link
>           UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>           RX packets:107624064 errors:5742 dropped:22078 overruns:0 frame:0
>           TX packets:25498717 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>           collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
>           RX bytes:661983497 (661.9 MB)  TX bytes:976156660 (976.1 MB)
>           Interrupt:18 Base address:0x2000
>
> Im dropping ALOT of packets on the RX side of my network card.  Taking a
> looking at the physical switch I see not errors.  Being my backend is VM on
> ESXi right now I am upgradeing VMware tools and installing a new NIC that
> is VMXNET3.  Hopefully I can get rid of the dropped packets and that will
> fix all the errors in the video!
>
> Mitchelliscrossinghisfingers!
>

After upgrading VMware tools and using a VMXNET3 NIC the dropped packets
went to 0.  Now my video plays back FLAWLESS.  Channel changes in LiveTV
are a lot smother too!

Mitchell
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