[mythtv-users] Constant Video stalls/lockups - looking for suggestions
Bruce Nordstrand
brucen at ksl.com.au
Mon Apr 28 00:45:19 UTC 2008
Raphael wrote:
> Bruce Nordstrand wrote:
>
>> Hi all
>>
>> I am having a bit of trouble with video playback - both TV (PAL SD) and
>> videos of various types (avi, mpg etc). I am running MythBuntu with .021
>> on a 1Ghz Pentium III / 512Mb ram / FX5200. I was running 7.10 and
>> upgraded last night to Hardy to see if the problem would go away.
>>
>> 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!!! :)
>>
>> Here's the kicker.... I installed (compiled) XBoxMediacenter for Linux
>> on this machine just to take a look. Somehow, it plays anything and
>> everything perfectly - no jumping, no freezes - just clean video playback.
>>
>> My question is: What should I be looking into to get MythFrontEnd
>> playing just like XBoxMediacenter? I must say that prior to installing
>> MythBuntu I had standard Ubuntu with a custom compiled Myth and did not
>> have these problems. I tried out Mythbuntu for the ease of it all after
>> going down a different track so to speak. I know it can't be the machine
>> because of XBMC playing fine so it has to be some settings somewhere.
>>
>>
>
> You didn't mention it, but have you tried playing files stored locally
> on the machine to rule out the possibility of a network problem
> mythbuntu might have but not regular ubuntu?
> Raphael
>
Hi Raphael
Yes, I copied a few Buffy episodes to the local hard drive but there was
no change in Myths performance. XBMC however played them 100% perfect at
35.6% CPU, just as it does with reading the files off NFS.
Cheers
Bruce
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