[mythtv-users] Network traffic causing pre-buffering pauses...

[chris at cpr.homelinux.net]

On Sun, Jul 10, 2005 at 10:24:10PM -0400, Mark Woodward wrote:
> When ever there is network traffic (i.e. file transfer to/from the 
> mythbox) I get pre-buffering pauses. I'm running the frontend as suid 
> but I don't think it's the frontend.

It doesn't take much to saturate a low-latency network connection.  The
solutions would be QOS, traffic shaping or firewall match-rate limiting,
depending on network architecture and the degree to which you can
control the other nodes on the network.