Those of you with long memories for detail may know that I have constant struggles with my MythTV's performance, usually for no apparent reason. I have no great reason for my machine to be sluggish, but none the less, it likes to taunt me. I'm pretty sure my myth computer hates me. My current issue is two-fold, going into My Videos has a noticable delay. I assume it's because I have a several hundred videos ( recently finished ripped my entire DVD collection to the machine). I open mythvideos in gallery mode.
<br><br>My current set up:<br>I've currently got a combine frontend/backend with a 400G video partition spread across two drives using LVM. It's a reiserfs partition. <br>The file structure is:<br><br> \home\MythVideo\<br>
Action\<br> Drama\<br> Comedy\<br> Kung Fu\<br> Exercise\<br><br>As stated, there's approximately 350 video files. Gallery mode is important to me, for WAF. She and I like to see the videos with covers laid out as they might be on the shelf, and have it set to display 8 at a time, which makes it easier to find a movie (picking a movie is still difficult. How can I have this many DVDs and still have nothing to watch).
<br><br>Also, I don't know if this is a problem or just an oddity, when I go to play a movie, it kicks off two mplayer processes.<br><br>Any suggestions for how to improve the performance? I've considered going to a difference file system, but I'm not sure it'll help. I seem to have performance issues in general, which doesn't make a ton of sense for only having one PVR150 and one frontend, even running off two ATA100 drives. I still get the occasional lock up on this machine, seemingly related to my ethernet driver, and I'm wondering if going to a new flavor of linux, such as gentoo, would help. I'm running Mandriva now,
2.6.12-12mdk. I'm loathe to figure out how to migrate that much data when I don't have a spare drive around. Growing an XFS file system a dozen times to move the data just seems like asking for trouble. <br><br>Ryan<br>