[mythtv-users] Ridiculous lag when starting player (PVR-350)

[Peter A. Daly]

On 6/11/07, Jeff Simpson <jeffsimpson at alum.wpi.edu> wrote:
> On 6/9/07, Jeff Simpson <jeffsimpson at alum.wpi.edu> wrote:
> > > Have you done a fsck on the disk?
> >
> > Just ran one (had to use -f). It found no errors, and it still has the
> > delay when starting playback.
> >
> > Any other ideas anyone?
> >
>
> Does anyone know what I could look for to debug this? What is the
> mythfrontend code doing at that point that it hangs for 10 seconds?
> Maybe it will give me a hint?
>
>  - Jeff
I've experienced this before, and would like to get to the bottom of
it as well.  A previous post of mine to this list about this never got
any traction.

My Via EPIA ME6000 takes a good 15-20 seconds to start the player.
Once playing it seems very responsive, and channel changes are
actually faster than my 1.8Ghz system.

Happens both as a remote frontend and a combination system, so it
doesn't seem to be network related.

This seems to be a problem on systems with slow CPU's, and looks like
it's a new "feature" in .20, .19 was not as bad.

-Pete
http://www.mythpvr.com