I know this topic has been brought up many a time. I'm trying to troubleshoot my prebuffer pauses and I'd appreciate it if anyone can offer some ideas as for what to test out.
My backend is a 3Ghz Xeon w/ 3 SATA HDs in RAID5 1GB RAM 1 PVR250, 1 PVR500 connected to a gigabit lan switch The frontend is an EPIA M10k, xorg is running at 1280x720 (native resolution of the lcd), but I have myth outputting video at 800x600. When I tried using 1280x720 I would get prebuffer every few seconds for the first 2 minutes or so, and then they would go away. Running at 800x600 I get them in small batches maybe 2 or 3 times during a 30 minute show. XvMC appears to be running fine, I'm running the latest unichrome drivers. I don't think it is a network problem, the backend is doing other things, but I don't think it should have a problem feeding out just 1 stream. I don't see any network errors under ifconfig on either the frontend or the backend. I'm leaning towards a problem on the frontend, but what problem, I really don't know. Here are links to 2 logs with -v playback, one is the problem when running at 1280x720, the other at 800x600. http://users.lmi.net/~resident/mythfrontend.prebuffer.1280.log http://users.lmi.net/~resident/mythfrontend.prebuffer.800.log In the 800x600 I play some video, rewind and then play some more. In both logs you can see at the beginning of the stream there are a lot of pauses, but it clears up (faster at 800x600 then at 1280), but they do come up after that as well. Neither log is very long, just a little bit of video, the logs grow very big quickly (10MB for the 30minute show). If a longer log would help, let me know. TIA
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