[mythtv-users] Takes two tries to watch a recording
Dave Topan
myth at topanfamily.ca
Fri May 4 13:47:39 UTC 2007
I also have that issue but I tracked it down.
My problem is that the recordings are on a seperate drive, and when there
is no activity the drive spins down. When I go to watch it hits a timeout
waiting for the drive to spin up. Once you try again it works.
On Fri, 4 May 2007, Brian Walter wrote:
> Nick Morrott wrote:
>> On 03/05/07, Brian Walter <blwalter at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Bill Omer wrote:
>>>
>>>> I was wondering if anybody may have seen this happen before. It's
>>>> rather odd, but on my remote frontend, when you try to watch a
>>>> recording (any recording) it will require you to try twice before it
>>>> actually plays.
>>>>
>>> This is a sometime issue for me as well. What's in your front end log?
>>> Do you have your video partition remote mounted via NFS? I've seen a
>>> *lot* of issues with frontend play back when the video partition is
>>> mounted on the frontend...
>>>
>>
>> I see this behaviour from time to time on my master frontend, with no
>> NFS sharing for MythTV recordings. I must increase my logging in the
>> hope I catch it again in the future. The odd thing is that the system
>> is usually under no/minimal stress when I observe this.
>>
>> Nick
>>
> I agree. It's another of those things to track down, when other issues
> have been cleared up.
>
> Brian
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