[mythtv] [mythtv-commits] Ticket #2708: patch: Allow remote FE/BE to prefer to use the myth protocol
Daniel Kristjansson
danielk at cuymedia.net
Tue Nov 21 21:35:47 UTC 2006
On Tue, 2006-11-21 at 13:08 -0500, James Armstrong wrote:
> > FWIW: My in experience streaming works far better. It used to be slower
> > (prior to 0.19), but it seems to be better since then. There are also
> > several posts in the dev & users lists that suggest to use streaming
> > rather than nfs mounts.
> I am one that finds streaming via protocol better than nfs mount. It
> seems sometimes when playing around and mount the share that I find
> myself wondering why playback stutters some. I eventually remember to
> unmount the share and let the streaming take over. Works better.
This is almost certainly because we require a larger buffer when
streaming, and for some reason your network needs the larger buffer.
It would be easy to add a "Do Extra Buffering" checkbox and add
the needed change in the RingBuffer initialization parameters.
-- Daniel
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