Hi All!<br>
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I am having a problem where when the mythtv box is recording
television, sound playback of videos (via mythvideo) is choppy. I
am using xine for the video playback and if I go and stop the
recording, the videos play back fine. I'd appreciate any feedback
anyone has.<br>
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History:<br>
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<div style="margin-left: 40px;">This wasn't a problem in a previous
install (using the same hardware but with a new SATA drive), so I'm
wondering if this could be caused by my hard drive (re)configuration:<br>
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<div style="margin-left: 40px;">Previous configuration:<br>
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<div style="margin-left: 80px;">Two 250Gb IDE drives configured with
LVM where the mythvideo folder (/videos) was using xfs and was in the
same partition with the tv recordings (/recordings) and the drives also
contained the partitions for linux boot/swap/root.<br>
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<div style="margin-left: 80px;">(This configuration worked fine and I
never noticed any problems with mythvideo playback even while recording
two tv shows simultaneously)<br>
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<div style="margin-left: 40px;">Current configuration:<br>
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<div style="margin-left: 80px;">Two 250Gb IDE drives configured with LVM but used for the mythvideo folder *only* (all 500Gb dedicated to mythvideo) using xfs<br>
One 250Gb SATA drive configured with LVM and used for the tv recordings (xfs) as well as the partitions for linux boot/swap/root<br>
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<div style="margin-left: 80px;">(In this configuration, I get stuttery
sound in mythvideo when recording even one tv show (whether via the
PVR-250 or via HDTV using the HD-3000)<br>
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For complete details of the new partitions, see my installation notes
at <a href="http://www.thelepperts.com/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/InstallGuide">http://www.thelepperts.com/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/InstallGuide</a>.<br>
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I was hoping the separate SATA drive for the tv recordings would
provide faster performance since I would have multiple programs
recording simultaneously and the IDE drives would be well-suited for my
DVD library (mostly read access). Is this inherently wrong?
Does SATA somehow take priority over IDE? Would I be better off
using all IDE or all SATA (don't really want to have replace my IDE
drives, if I can avoid it)?<br>
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By the way, this is an AMD XP 3200 system with 512Mb of RAM and an Abit NF7-S mobo.<br clear="all">
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I'd appreciate any feedback on this configuration and would be happy to provide additional information if needed<br>
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Thanks,<br>
phlepper<br>-- <br>I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand. -- Confucius