[mythtv-users] Video runs for 2-3 seconds then pauses until it gives up

[Doug Larrick]

Brandon Beattie wrote:
> I'm looking to see if anyone else has experienced this..  CVS of myth
> for about a week has been giving me problems (Or I changed some option
> and I can't find out what it was to revert.. -- I've tried *everything*
> I changed recently.. anyway)...  I have a split frontend/backend and
> upon selecting a recorded show to watch, 80%-90% of the time it plays
> the first 2-3 seconds then pauses.  Console shows it's prebuffering
> pauses.  After 10 or so seconds it gives up and returns me to the menu.
> At this point if I select to watch it again it works.  Some shows just
> work (the 10%-20% of the time, but to me it's random).  I've continued
> to upgrade the backend and frontend and get no change.  Turning on live
> preview does no help, nor does anything I try.
> 
> If anyone else has seen this or has any ideas, thanks.

The one time I saw something like this my network was hosed by a power
glitch... power-cycled my switch and everything was fine.  You might
also check that the remote frontend has proper access priveleges to the
database; otherwise it will play but not have access to the
recordedmarkup table.

-Doug
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