<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Dec 23, 2013 at 5:41 AM, Stephen Worthington <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:stephen_agent@jsw.gen.nz" target="_blank">stephen_agent@jsw.gen.nz</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class=""><div class="h5">On Mon, 23 Dec 2013 03:02:33 -0500, you wrote:<br>
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>On Sat, Dec 21, 2013 at 9:22 PM, Ian Evans <<a href="mailto:dheianevans@gmail.com">dheianevans@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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[snip</div></div></blockquote><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class=""><div class="h5">]>Ok...I forgot that the files in question are on an USB external drive. But<br>
>I thought I read here that some are using them for older file storage. Are<br>
>there any settings I should be checking to see that I'm getting the correct<br>
>data transfer speed?<br>
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</div></div>To see if it is the USB drive that is the problem, just try moving one<br>
of the problem files to a storage group that is on a SATA drive.<br>
MythTV checks all storage groups to find the files, so you can move<br>
recording files freely between storage group locations. Use the I key<br>
twice and scroll down to see the file name for any recording.<br>
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USB 2 drives are pretty slow, but should be fast enough to play back<br>
any recording as long as the drive is not busy doing something else at<br>
the same time.</blockquote><div><br></div><div>yep, it's the USB drive. Don't know why it's giving me speeds so slow:<br><br>sudo hdparm -tT /dev/sdc1<br><br>/dev/sdc1:<br> Timing cached reads: 2 MB in 2.05 seconds = 999.51 kB/sec<br>
Timing buffered disk reads: 4 MB in 4.10 seconds = 999.83 kB/sec<br> <br></div></div></div></div>