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

[David Watkins]

On 12/06/07, Jeff Simpson <jeffsimpson at alum.wpi.edu> wrote:
> > 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.
>
> My system is currently running at 2170Mhz, so I'm not a slow system issue.
> Version is 0.20.1. It was working fine and suddenly now it has this
> problem. I can't tell what has changed, just that it's different.

You posted your frontend log.  Presumably you've also had a look at a
verbose backend log, and perhaps a mysql log as well?  Was there
nothing interesting in those?