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Ken Bass wrote:<br>
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<pre wrap="">On Mon, 24 Nov 2003, Tako Schotanus wrote:
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<pre wrap="">No, it has nothing to do with one or two stutters after a channel
change, that's normal. This is about continuous stuttering that occurs
every second or so and is very slight but enough to be annoying. The
console is filled with messages about prebuffering pauses.
For me this only happens after a certain time, never in the beginning of
a recording.
CPU usage is low enough (mostly around 30%) so that should not have
anything to do with it.
-Tako
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What is your hard disk performance like? I think you can figure that out
by running hdparm; such as:
"hdparm -t /dev/sda"
and you will get:
/dev/sda:
Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 2.45 seconds = 26.12 MB/sec
My guess is that if your CPU util is low, your hardisk might be the
bottleneck. What is that number and if it is low it could be due to DMA
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No, that's not it either (20MB/s). That would also mean that everybody
having this problem would have slow CPU or slow HDs which just isn't
the case. I've had other mythtv/ivtv/via-drv combinations work more or
less perfectly, it's just the current combination that isn't working
for me.<br>
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Just to make it clear: I'm not complaining, just stating that the
current combi isn't working for me, but I'm patient and will just wait
until everything works ok again and maybe even help where possible.<br>
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-Tako<br>
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