[mythtv-users] Xbox frontend really slow, video only updates every few seconds

[Alexander Fisher]

On 2/14/06, Todd Ferris <tferris at gmail.com> wrote:
> This might be totally unrelated...
>
>  My XBOX with Xebian 1.1.4 and pre-built Myth exhibts a similar every few
> seconds stutter.
>
>  Interestingly, I found that if I was running another frontend process the
> stuttering would stop.  After a little more playing I found that any network
> activity to the backend server would stop the stuttering.  Before I had a
> chance to explore the networking problem, I moved over to XBMC.  XBMC works
> great, so I assumed this was not a network hardware problem, but possibly a
> software network issue (as XBMC uses SMB shares instead of Myth based
> streaming)  I have been planning on rebuilding the server, so was going to
> wait until after that was done to explore this more.

Have you set suid on mythfrontend?  If you're not running mythfrontend
as root, I think this is needed for the video output thread to run
with real time scheduling.

Might not solve your problem of course. :)
Alex