[mythtv-users] Constant Video stalls/lockups - looking for suggestions

[Phil Bridges]

On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 5:56 AM, Mark Himsley <mark at mdsh.com> wrote:
> Bruce Nordstrand wrote:
>
>  > Playing *anything* will result in the video freezing for up to 30 secs
>  > and this happens randomly and sometimes more than once. Videos are on a
>  > network share via NFS and do the same whatever I use as the player
>  > Internal, Xine, MPlayer. It doesn't matter if there is anything
>  > recording or not - this machine is a combined frontend/backend. This
>  > makes it real hard to watch things like Buffy and Dr Who!!! :)
>
>  Hi,
>
>  I'm having similar issues, only more so. I cannot watch anything in
>  MythTV. I get a second or two of moving video+audio then a freeze for 10
>  seconds - rinse and repeat.
>
>  I was using v2.1 on Ubuntu Gutsey without an issue. Upgraded to Ubuntu
>  Hardy and it's all gone pare shaped.
>
>  Note though that recordings happen perfectly and I can mythtranscode
>  programmes out of MythTV and view them in Mplayer and VLC. Even more
>  silly, when I'm in MythTV frontend -> Media Library -> Watch Recordings
>  the mini-preview video plays perfectly!
>
>  So essentially so long as I don't want to watch programmes in MythTV
>  frontend then it's all ok :-(
>

What playback profile are you using?
(http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Playback_profiles)