[mythtv-users] Video files start playing then freeze [NOT EXACTLY SOLVED]

[belcampo]

belcampo wrote:
> Travis Tabbal wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 10:38 AM, Dave M G <martin at autotelic.com 
>> <mailto:martin at autotelic.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     Travis,
>>
>>     Thanks for responding.
>>
>>     I haven't exactly solved the issue, but I've worked around it.
>>
>>     First, I found that I could play video in Mplayer outside of 
>> MythTV, so
>>     it seems the problem is with MythTV + Mplayer.
>>
>>     I ran mythfrontend from the command line, and that way caught some 
>> error
>>     messages. There was something about PulseAudio having a bug that 
>> causes
>>     pausing in Media Player.
>>
>>     I looked it up on the web, and it seemed like it was it supposed 
>> to be
>>     fixed, but I guess not in my case.
>>
>>     I also found out that I could change the default media player, and I
>>     selected to use "Internal".
>>
>>
>>
>> Interesting. I've been noticing pauses when the server gets loaded 
>> even a little. Is there a way to increase the buffer size for the 
>> internal player? The media is streamed over NFS. Increasing the buffer 
>> size for mplayer helped a lot in the past. The network is gigabit, the 
>> server is quite fast, and the frontends are quick with enough RAM for 
>> a large buffer.
> At nfs-server side add
> echo 1048576 > /proc/fs/nfsd/max_block_size
> to you startup script
> mount it on mythfrontend WITHOUT rsize and wsize in your fstab, server 
> and client will negotiate what max buffer size is possible
> Check with 'less /proc/mounts' if rsize and wsize are 1048576.
Sorry this has nothing to do with 'the pulse-problem' I didn't read 
carefuly enough, though it helps smoothening playback.
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