[mythtv-users] Rollback to Mythtv 0.18.1 - weird prebuffering pauses

[stan at stanandliz.net]

> I am not telling you to go back to 0.19 however there are now good working
> xebian (xbox) releases for 0.19-fixes. I am running custom compiled
> 0.19-fixes on all my machines and my system runs faster than it ever did
> under 0.18. Its also stable now. Goes for weeks without a reboot or a
> hang.
>
> Here are a few things to try. Change windows manager (I use xfce). Compile
> with every non-essential feature disabled. Check out the mysql patches to
> improve performance. Disable all the background crap that most
> full-featured
> systems seem to install. Make sure you didn't accidentally turn off dma on
> the hard drives.
>
> My bitch with ebuilds (other then the compile time to install anything) is
> that they are still trying to install 0.19 release rather than the -fixes
> branch. 0.19 release was buggy as heck and had many of the complaints you
> talked about.
>
> Good luck!
> Bill
>


OK - noted - if you have no problems with xebian then I think that I'll
switch over from Gentoo!

thanks

Stephen