[mythtv] Fwd: Increased Network Traffic

[Kevin Kuphal]

Geoffrey Kruse wrote:

> I am using the latest cvs of mythtv with a backend on debian and a 
> frontend on mac os x.  The backend has 2 pvr 250s.   Sometime in the 
> last couple of weeks, mythtv has become unusable over my 802.11g 
> connection.  Typically, to watch tv, i used to see network traffic of 
> around 600kb/s.  RIght now, when I watch tv, my network traffic is 
> around 2.2 Mb/s which is about the best 802.11g can do.  And, the 
> video is now jumpy with this increased net traffic.  Watching the same 
> file in vlc over an http connection results in < 400 kb/s in network 
> traffic so something is amiss with mythtv.  Any ideas on what is 
> causing this huge amount of network traffic?

Curious, how are you connecting to the files on the backend from the 
frontend?

myth internal streaming
nfs
samba

I typically use samba and just finished setting up the frontend and 
found that using samba, I could not skip through a file at all and my 
network was pegged.  I unmounted and tried the internal streaming and it 
worked perfectly.  Then I tried NFS and that also works just fine.

Thought maybe you might be using samba.

Kevin