<div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><br>So last night I was trying to watch a hockey game. It was an SD<br>recording at my High Quality setting (about half the bitrate of an HD
<br>show). I was getting lots of prebuffering pauses making it basically<br>unwatchable though my frontend was only using about 10% cpu. I went<br>upstairs and tried the game on my backend machine and it played<br>perfectly. So I am thinking its a network problem. At the time I had
<br>2 HD recordings going on the HDHR. At 11:00PM when the HDHR finished<br>the game started playing fine.<br><br></blockquote></div>Could be a totally different problem, but I had similar symptoms when I first setup an HDHR on my network and Myth backend. I was banging my head against the wall trying to solve the problem because there were no obvious error messages or anything like that on either the backend or the frontend. I finally traced the problem to the fact that the on-board network interface on the backend MOBO simply couldn't handle the traffic of recording the HDHR stream over the network and streaming to the frontend. I threw an old 3Com 10/100 NIC into a PCI slot and the problem went away. Not really happy about having to give up the slot, which I could have potentially used for another tuner card, but I had to do it. I eventually upgraded to GB NICs and a GB switch, but that really wasn't necessary. Like I said, could be a totally different situation for you, but I thought I'd pass on my experience to potentially save you some headaches.
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