[mythtv-users] HD Choppy or Jerky

[Mike Carron]

On 2/1/2014 2:45 PM, Dick Steffens wrote:
> On 02/01/2014 12:13 PM, Doug Lytle wrote:
>> Dick Steffens wrote:
>>> CAT-5 cable, and 10/100 Ethernet. I don't use the wireless side of the
>>> router.
>> You'll really want to be gigabit for HD.
>
> Are you saying that I need gigabit Ethernet between my HDHomeRun Prime 
> and the machine doing the recording, or playing the program live?
>
> Would it work to have gigabit between the HDHomeRun Prime and the 
> machine doing the recording, then copy the recorded file to the 
> machine connected to the TV and have a stable playback?
>
> Very rarely do we watch live TV anymore. The Super Bowl, tomorrow, is 
> probably the only thing we plan to watch live. Mostly we record what 
> we want to see and then watch it later. If I set up a backend 
> connected by gigabit Ethernet to my HDHomeRun Prime to do the 
> recording, but transferred those recordings over 10/100 Ethernet to 
> the playback machine, should that work? It would be very impractical 
> to run better than CAT-5 cable to where the TV sits. Or can gigabit 
> Ethernet work on CAT-5 cable. (I haven't kept up to date on cable. 
> Last I knew there was CAT-5e cable, but I don't have any of that in my 
> house.)
>
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I have Cat 5 throughout my house and I haven't seen any problem with 
gigabit Ethernet.

mike