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

Brian L. Walter blwalter at gmail.com
Wed May 2 10:57:44 UTC 2007


William Pettersson wrote:
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> This might help, it might not.  But look optimize_mythdb.pl   I had
> those issues, and setting that to run regularly helped my problems.
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> Jeff Wiens wrote:
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>> My box has the same problem.  My wife got mad at me so we use the skip
>> feature now instead.
>>
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>> 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
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Thanks for reminding me!  I had a nightly optimizedb scheduled, but, the 
path changed...see if that affects things.


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