[mythtv-users] Smoothness problems

[james.meyer at operamail.com]

On Saturday 13 November 2004 06:52 pm, Justyn Hunter wrote:
> I am having big trouble with prebuffering pauses.
> 
> My box is only 1ghz with an ATI TV Wonder so I figure I just had the
> recording profile settings turned up to high.  After much screwing
> around I had no success so I tried to turn all the settings as low as
> they would go to see if prebuffering pauses would go away.  They did
> not.  I also have tried useing nice to set a higher priority and that
> did not work either.  I welcome any other suggestions.
> 
> Btw, this is on Debian Sid.
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
The first thing i would check is to make sure that dma is enabled on your harddrive
To check this use  hdparm -d /dev/hda       
To enable  use hdparm -d1 /dev/hda

-jm