<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 10:35 PM, Eric Robinson <<a href="mailto:ryunokokoro@gmail.com">ryunokokoro@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Part of the attraction of a media center setup like MythTV is that not only do recordings become available throughout the network [home], but ostensibly other media does as well. Lets say, for the purpose of argument, family DVDs. Recorded Television plays back smoothly and manages jumps smoothly. If I rip my family's summer vacation DVD as a VOB and try to play it back through MythTV, however, the playback gets choppy. I assume that this is due to my use of a NFS mounted directory as the file source.<br>
<br>I've read in other forums that NFS is not very good at handling large files accessed semi-randomly-and-otherwise-sequentially-but-in-parts-instead-of-whole-files [heh]. So what I'm curious to know is if there's a way to leverage the work that's gone into making TV-playback smooth for the Video files in MythVideo?<br>
<br>Our current network consists of two Mac Minis wired over Gigabit Ethernet and one Mac Mini wireless'd over 802.11n running MythFrontend.app and a MythBuntu machine in the basement with four tuners (two HD, two SD). The Backend has 3TB set up in RAID such that we could get our huge collection of family memories stored at full quality and backed up. The thing is, even though we can watch HDTV recordings on any of the Frontends (and they're as smooth as butter), the DVDs running in SD choke and stutter a bit (especially after a skip-ahead which can sometimes cause playback to quit). Is there any way around this?<br>
<br>Thoughts?<br></blockquote><div><br>The goal of the MythTV project was to make all of your digital media accessible through an integrated living room interface, and in the early years it absolutely achieved that goal better than any of the alternatives. The heart and soul of MythTV has always been the PVR, though, and most of the considerable development energy in recent years has gone into maintaining MythTV's position as the best PVR money can buy. <br>
<br>To that end, MythTV heavily leverages the fact it is the "recorder" of the PVR. The backend decides what recordings are available, where they are stored, and what format they are stored in. It has access to structured metadata about those recording before they are made. To make things run smoothly, though, it needs unrestricted access to your tuner devices and recordings directories. <br>
<br>Mythbackend is the heart and soul of MythTV, and while the various myth plugins share a frontend interface and access to a database with Mythbackend, they are seperate entities that simply have not recieved as much attention as the backend over the years. <br>
<br>As for specific suggestions, the answer to your problem is to get your movies into the recordings directory/table and out of the MythVideo ghetto. I believe there are tools available that will help you accomplish this, but I'm afraid I can't offer any specifics. <br>
<br><br><br>-chris<br><br> <br></div></div><br>-- <br>Chris Ribe<br>TV/IT Engineer<br>WCJB-TV/DT Gainesville, FL<br>(352) 416 0648<br><a href="mailto:cribe@wcjb.com">cribe@wcjb.com</a>