[mythtv-users] Have to start shows twice -- database problem???

Allen Edwards allen.p.edwards at gmail.com
Mon Feb 25 16:17:16 UTC 2013


On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 7:18 AM, Allen Edwards <allen.p.edwards at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 1:36 AM, John Veness <
> John.Veness.mythtv at pelago.org.uk> wrote:
>
>> On 24/02/2013 19:47, Allen Edwards wrote:
>>
>>> I am running 0.21 and following the advice of if it ain't broke, don't
>>> fix it.  But I have a very small "broke" I would like to fix.  This
>>> problem started probably about a year ago.  I had many years with no
>>> issues at all.  Not always, but often when I start a program I get a
>>> long delay and then back to the menu and I have to start the show again,
>>> which then starts instantly.  Also, and more annoying, if I stop a show
>>> half way through and restart it, it often does the same thing and I lose
>>> my break point so have to manually skip to where I left off.
>>>
>>
>> I had a similar problem to that a few years ago, and if I remember
>> correctly I found that degragmenting my drives helped. I'm not sure if it
>> was defragmenting the video storage drive or the database drive that
>> particularly helped.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> John
>
>
> Thanks for the suggestion.  I will try that right away.
>
> Allen
>

I just spent the last half hour looking for how to defrag my ext3
filesystem.  If I believe what I read, it can't be done.  I found a few
suggestions on how to do it using a program that other sources said will
destroy data so I decided not to try that.  Even the suggestions online on
how to measure the fragmentation apparently had invalid options but in any
event did not run.

Maybe I will just copy and delete all the files and write them back.

Allen
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