[mythtv-users] Jumpy playback with PVR-250?

stan stanb at panix.com
Fri Jan 16 15:56:48 EST 2004


On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 03:43:39PM -0500, Scott Pouliot wrote:
> I'll try the extra audio buffering once I find it  ;-)
> 
> As far as the pauses...they happen as little as 10 seconds into watching
> LIVE TV...with no recording going on in the background.  I haven't changed
> anything on this box in like a week and it's been running great.  All of a
> sudden I played a recording I taped a few days back and it started freaking
> out on me.
> 
> Actually, the only change I made was installing a new HD...and changing the
> Myth setup to use that drive.  Let me ask this...could using an ext2
> filesystem on this new drive be the culprit?  If so...I can easily format it
> and re-do the filesystem in ext3.  This drive is faster than the boot drive
> though....by almost double according to hdparm.  (35MB/Sec vs 56MB/sec) 
> 

I'm having a lot of success with xfs on my myth machine for what it's
worth.

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