[mythtv-users] Prebuffering pause on FF and or Rewind?

[Brian L. Walter]

Jeff Wiens wrote:
> My box has the same problem.  My wife got mad at me so we use the skip
> feature now instead.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org
> [mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Brian L. Walter
> Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2007 3:25 PM
> To: Discussion about mythtv
> Subject: [mythtv-users] Prebuffering pause on FF and or Rewind?
>
> Greetings,
>
> Recently, I've noticed that we can't reliable fast forward or rewind, 
> getting the infamous prebuffering pause.
>
> I've got a gigabit network between the frontend and backend, and the 
> throughput seems reasonable (around 800 mbits), the backend is very 
> lightly loaded, nothing going on it (just recordings, but, the load is 
> *low* as is the cpu usage).
>
> Could this possibly be a bottle neck at the disk level?  I'm using SATA 
> drives, which, apparently, you can't turn dma directly on for, though 
> there is mention in the logs about using UDMA/133...
>
> TIA
> Brian
>   
Yeah, skip ahead is my solution too.  It's interesting, it worked when I 
first installed myth, but now, it doesn't.  I've a  feeling something 
changed in the logic...