<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On 2 November 2017 at 14:08, 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">On Wed, 1 Nov 2017 14:01:44 -0500, you wrote:<br>
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>Hi Folks!<br>
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>First, thanks for the assistance in the past; has resolved a lot of<br>
>issues. Hopefully can get this one resolved also, probably just<br>
>something simple I don’t understand while trying to do my own<br>
>troubleshooting.<br>
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>Have two Backends – separate IPs and passwords. Wanting to switch to the<br>
>“new and improved” Backend with better specs and before the old<br>
>Backend’s motherboard fails. The old system is “BE1” and the<br>
>new/replacement is “BE2”. So when a (remote) Frontend looks at BE1 (old)<br>
>it plays nice, Fast Forward through commercials is snappy, all is well.<br>
>Same Frontend on BE2 (new), playback is fine but when hit FF it sits at<br>
>3x for a second or two (same frame), then (say) 20 or 30x and the frame<br>
>is jump-pause-jump-pause – probably takes two or three times as long to<br>
>get through commercials with the new system as the old, which has a lot<br>
>faster processor: BE2: AMD Athlon II X2 250 Processor – dual core @<br>
>3010.387 MHz, Mythbuntu 64 bit. Did the add ppa for 0.28/<br>
>update/upgrade/reboot steps this morning; didn’t help the FF<br>
>sluggishness problem.<br>
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Why on earth would you be using fast-forward to skip commercials? That<br>
is the old, slow way of doing it, inherited from VCRs. <br></blockquote><div> </div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra">True, but not really the point. FF/REW should still work, regardless of why it is being used.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">The other thought I had was whether there was an issue in the seektable? Check your database for crashed tables - plenty of tutorials and previous posts on this, so a Google exercise for you!</div></div>