[mythtv-users] BE 2 – Remote Frontends Sluggish on FF

[Mike Holden]

On 2 November 2017 at 14:08, Stephen Worthington <stephen_agent at jsw.gen.nz>
wrote:

> On Wed, 1 Nov 2017 14:01:44 -0500, you wrote:
>
> >Hi Folks!
> >
> >
> >First, thanks for the assistance in the past; has resolved a lot of
> >issues. Hopefully can get this one resolved also, probably just
> >something simple I don’t understand while trying to do my own
> >troubleshooting.
> >
> >
> >Have two Backends – separate IPs and passwords. Wanting to switch to the
> >“new and improved” Backend with better specs and before the old
> >Backend’s motherboard fails. The old system is “BE1” and the
> >new/replacement is “BE2”. So when a (remote) Frontend looks at BE1 (old)
> >it plays nice, Fast Forward through commercials is snappy, all is well.
> >Same Frontend on BE2 (new), playback is fine but when hit FF it sits at
> >3x for a second or two (same frame), then (say) 20 or 30x and the frame
> >is jump-pause-jump-pause – probably takes two or three times as long to
> >get through commercials with the new system as the old, which has a lot
> >faster processor: BE2: AMD Athlon II X2 250 Processor – dual core @
> >3010.387 MHz, Mythbuntu 64 bit. Did the add ppa for 0.28/
> >update/upgrade/reboot steps this morning; didn’t help the FF
> >sluggishness problem.
>
> Why on earth would you be using fast-forward to skip commercials? That
> is the old, slow way of doing it, inherited from VCRs.
>

True, but not really the point. FF/REW should still work, regardless of why
it is being used.

The other thought I had was whether there was an issue in the seektable?
Check your database for crashed tables - plenty of tutorials and previous
posts on this, so a Google exercise for you!
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