[mythtv-users] Sporadic pauses

[Mike Perkins]

On 26/01/15 20:20, Josh Norell wrote:
>
> On 1/26/2015 1:16 PM, Joe Henley wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have a Zotac ZBox-ID84 front end running minimyth ver. 0.25.2-81, with the
>> back-end running Myth ver. 0.25-2.  They are connected via Cat5 ethernet with
>> a 1 GB router in the mix.  It has run well for several years now and has a
>> decent WAF score.
>>
>> The problem is that the client will infrequently and unpredictably go silent
>> and black screen for anywhere between 2 and 20 seconds, and then resume
>> playing normally.  Sometimes, it will do it only once, other times it will do
>> it several times within a minute. When I look at the logs (client syslog,
>> server syslog and server mythtv logs) there is nothing unusual.  If I rerun
>> the recording at the point where the playback problem occurred, it plays fine
>> -- on a different client and even on the Zotac.
>>
>> I'm stumped.  Any and all suggestions welcome.
>>
>> Joe Henley
>
> Likely either a network issue, or disk issue(bad or IO bottleneck) on either
> machine. Try running a continuous ping to the BE and see if it drops when video
> pauses to see if your losing network connectivity.
>
A recent thread here mentioned heating issues on some of those boxes. Check 
things like fans, clearances, etc.

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Mike Perkins