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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I have just upgraded from Mythtv ver0.15 on Mandrake9.1 to MythTv ver0.17 on Gentoo (kernel 2.6)</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Everything went smooth during the install (using xorg-x11, ratpoison, nvidia (geforce 4400), alsa (c-Media driver), ivtv 0.2.0rc3 for pvr250)</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">My upgrade consisted of installing new OS, installing Myth, moving old LVM partition with recordings, and expanding LVM partition with more space.(add disk)</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Everything went fine until ….</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">1) Playback of old recordings was initially OK. Then I was playing around with some options and extended LVM partition to new drive. Then I tried recording a new show. During and After which the playback is choppy (almost like dropping frames and audio) not only for new recording, but for old ones as well. Not sure what I did to mess it up like this (like I said - initially it played old recording perfect - even time shifting!). </FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I tested some other things out to isolate the problem. The recording that are recorded to disk are OK if I play them back on a Windows machine that maps the samba share! Also, I tired playing MP3s. Within X, mplayer has the same studder problem. But, outside of X, mplayer works perfect!</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Still hard to tell what is causing the problem. Anyone seen anything like this? Could it be a problem with my audio/video drivers? Could it be a problem with my LVM partition (DMA access)? I have ruled out the pvr250 - since it's recording play fine on other machines!</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">2) mythbackend init script supplied my gentoo emerge does not work. Everytime I execute "/etc/init.d/mythbackend start" it say "can not open database" in the logs. However, if I start "mythbackend" at the command prompt - it works fine? Any ideas?</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Thanks in advance</FONT>
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