[mythtv-users] Watching recordings. Pause then drop back to selection screen

Paul Barker myth at sixtimesnine.net
Mon Oct 17 16:12:04 EDT 2005


Paul Barker wrote:

>Hi
>
>Sorry for the long delay and thanks to those who made suggestions.
>
>My setup is a b/e running FC3 with 1 PVR 250 as capture device. 2 X remote
>frontends, 1 X FC3, 1 X Minimyth diskless EPIA. 100Mb wired network via
>Linksys switches.
>
>A brief recap of the problem - when watching recorded shows on either
>frontend playback will randomly stop and the f/e returns to the select
>recording screen.
>
>Last night I watched live tv for almost 2 hours on one of the frontend
>with no issues (apart from slightly garbled audio for a few seconds which
>could have been present in the input anyway). I sniffed the whole session
>into multiple files with ethereal and can see no problems except the very
>occasional "previous fragment was missing" packets which I've been lead to
>belive may be 'normal' ethernet behaviour.
>
>I have a couple of Linksys switches back to back in the network and I
>started to wonder if this may be inducing latency. I've ordered a NetGear
>FS116 10/100 16 port switch which will hopefully arive today. I'm planning
>to recheck all my cables and replace the multiple switches with the
>NetGear probably tomorrow night.
>
>Obviously I'll post results good or bad.
>  
>
Well it looks like 2 uplinked Linksys switches were to blame. I replaced 
them with a NetGear 16 port switch and tested all of the cabling and 
I've been watching recordings with no problems all weekend !

Thanks again to those who replied.

Cheers
Paul


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