[mythtv-users] Recordings slow to start?

[HP-mini]

On Fri, 2015-07-03 at 11:12 +0100, John Pilkington wrote:
> On 02/07/15 19:38, HP-mini wrote:

> > If you start playback of a recording in the period 1 minute after
> > recording has finished, you are guaranteed to get 10 sec delay.
> > I believe this is a file status bug.
> > This is the only time I get any start delay (database on SSD).
> >
> > I think there is a file playback probing issue that causes some delay,
> > if the start of the recording file is not "clean".
> > Check in mythtv-setup that recordings are set to start on mpeg2-SEQ (==
> > SPS for H264).
> >
> 
> I get a several-second delay if I play a UK SD recording immediately 
> after processing it with my mythDVBcut script, which cuts, remuxes the 
> file from .ts to .mpg and rebuilds the seektable.  No RAID, just a 
> single 500 GB xfs (SL7 default) non-green disk and still only 2GB ram. 
> Compaq dc5800 box.  It's not a problem but another datapoint. 
> Subsequent plays start immediately.
> 
That delay could be thumbnail (re-)generation or just pre-loading some
disk cache?