This is not a message asking for help, but a description of what I have done
to help with these issues based on what I have gathered from this list.
I have a MythTV server/frontend v0.20.155 on FC5.
The MVP is a Rev D.
The MVP is connected to a dlink DWLG820 wired/wireless adapter that uses
Turbo G so the MVP is 'wireless'
I setup dhcpd and tftpd on the FC5 box as per the instructions for each and
disabled dhcp on my soho router.
The dongle I tried first was the 0.3.3 release. It took about 15 minutes to
load and when it did, the mvp would reboot when I tried to watch live tv one
time and then work the next. And recordings would play, but the video/audio
was choppy and sometimes it was fine.
To try to fix this I decided to use a newer build and loaded the 20070204
build. This worked the same way. Long loads, reboot live tv and choppy
recordings via myth.
After reading through the wiki and other posts, I tried nfs instead of myth
recordings and still got the same erratic choppy view one time but not the
next. About this time I added a digital tuner to the myth server and in the
process I ID-10-Ted the server and had to take time to rebuild and get back
to the point I was.
Over the weekend I got back into the MVP (which was still booting slowly,
choppy, etc). After booting and switching to mythtv/live tv, I saw a new
message that indicated it was taking an unusually long time to contact the
server. After hunting around, I found this was potentially caused by name
resolution not working. So, since I wanted to setup DNS with
internal/external views I went ahead and installed bind on FC5 and used it
to handle my internal name space view with the name of the server and the
mvp box etc. This is the DNS server that is now handed out by the dhcp
server instead of my soho router that gets DNS info from the ISP.
Immediately I knew I found a solution to the boot issue, it now takes about
2 or 3 minutes to boot the mvp. The reboots of the MVP when entering
mythtv/live tv seemed to stop with this too, but now the live tv was choppy
just like recorded.
On to the choppy video. On the mailing lists I found this thread/message
that were describing exactly what was happening to me.
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.multimedia.mvpmc.user/1059
I have added the tcp option to the nfs mount and the choppy playback is
gone, both in mythtv recordings and nfs recordings. (Which I understand has
been added to the daily builds now via the nfsmount.sh script)
So, I don't know if it was dumb luck, coincidence or what, but the MVP has
been running fine for 48 hours with excellent live tv under myth and great
recording playback. Now, on to VLC for audio streaming!
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