[mythtv-users] Playback drops with news crawl

[Will Dormann]

On 2/13/25 10:50 AM, Peter Bennett wrote:
> 
> It sounds like a disk drive error if the file copy fails at that point.  
> If the file copy fails there is not much chance that MythTV could read 
> past that point. I recommend replacing the drive. Copy as much as you 
> can from the old drive to the new drive.

Easy to check by installing smartmontools and running:
sudo smartctl -a /dev/<device>   (e.g. /dev/sda)

It might be obvious that it's dying, or if not, I'm sure somebody here 
could provide some insight if you paste the input here.



-WD