<div dir="ltr">No, my drives are active. I get the 8 seconds even after starting a recording, immediately backing out, and starting it again.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jul 31, 2018 at 8:57 PM, 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:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">On Tue, 31 Jul 2018 19:41:15 -0500, you wrote:<br>
<br>
>My backend system recently died, and as part of the replacement, I decided<br>
>to upgrade from Ubuntu 16.04 and mythtv 0.28 to Ubuntu 18.04 and mythtv 29.<br>
>Since then I've had several issues. I ironed most of them out, but two<br>
>linger:<br>
>1) The time between starting playback of a recording and that recording<br>
>actually playing (when it says "Please Wait") is about 8 seconds. It used<br>
>to be about 2 or so.<br>
>2) When exiting the "Watch Recordings" screen, the frontend will hang for<br>
>about two minutes or so, sometimes longer (it has taken over 5 minutes, at<br>
>which time the WAF got so low I had to restart the frontend rather than<br>
>wait it out).<br>
><br>
>I've enabled debug-level logging on the front end, but I get literally<br>
>nothing while it waits. I've checked the backend logs as well, but I've<br>
>seen nothing useful there. I've done some searches in the mailing list<br>
>archive, but haven't come up with anything there either.<br>
><br>
>Any ideas? Logs to look at, settings to check?<br>
><br>
>Thanks,<br>
><br>
>Paul<br>
<br>
</div></div>The start playing time could be a hard drive that has to spin up. You<br>
can use hdparm to see the state of a drive:<br>
<br>
root@mypvr:~# hdparm -C /dev/disk/by-label/rec1<br>
<br>
/dev/disk/by-label/rec1:<br>
drive state is: active/idle<br>
root@mypvr:~# hdparm -C /dev/disk/by-label/vid3<br>
<br>
/dev/disk/by-label/vid3:<br>
drive state is: standby<br>
<br>
I have never met your long timeout to exit "Watch Recordings", but I<br>
am still using 16.04 with v29.<br>
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