Re: MythTV frontend rebuffering problem

2006-08-30 Thread Andrew Jorgensen
On 8/30/06, Roberto Mello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Both seem to be on full duplex. Anything else I should do to make sure that's the case? Run ifconfig to see if there are any errors or collisions. It's possible that your NIC will lie, of course, but it's a good test. /* PLUG: http://plug.o

Re: MythTV frontend rebuffering problem

2006-08-30 Thread Roberto Mello
On Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 03:28:15PM -0600, Brandon Beattie wrote: > > Myth keeps a very small buffer for several reasons, but it's not worth > going into and it's not something you can tweak minus hacking the code. > Now I've also seen problems with some switches and network cards. My > gigabit sw

Re: MythTV frontend rebuffering problem

2006-08-30 Thread Roberto Mello
On Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 03:09:45PM -0600, Andrew Jorgensen wrote: > > Actually mplayer is pretty clever. Not that myth isn't but mplayer > uses a longer cache and has some really good decode algorithms. But > now that I mention that I think they both use ffmpeg for mpeg4 (or are > you using rtjp

Re: MythTV frontend rebuffering problem

2006-08-30 Thread Brandon Beattie
On Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 03:09:45PM -0600, Andrew Jorgensen wrote: > On 8/30/06, Roberto Mello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >The problem seems to be specifically on the transmission of data. I don't > >the computer can't process the stream fast enough, otherwise mplayer > >playing those very same fi

Re: MythTV frontend rebuffering problem

2006-08-30 Thread Andrew Jorgensen
On 8/30/06, Roberto Mello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The problem seems to be specifically on the transmission of data. I don't the computer can't process the stream fast enough, otherwise mplayer playing those very same files over the NFS share would be just as choppy. Actually mplayer is prett

Re: MythTV frontend rebuffering problem

2006-08-30 Thread Roberto Mello
On Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 12:16:34PM -0600, Chris Carey wrote: > On 8/30/06, Roberto Mello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >The backend server is an Athlon 1.8 GHz, 512 MiB of RAM. The frontend > >where the problem happens is a Dual P3 with 512 MiB of RAM. Everyone has > >DMA enabled. > > > What MH

Re: MythTV frontend rebuffering problem

2006-08-30 Thread Chris Carey
On 8/30/06, Roberto Mello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The backend server is an Athlon 1.8 GHz, 512 MiB of RAM. The frontend where the problem happens is a Dual P3 with 512 MiB of RAM. Everyone has DMA enabled. What MHZ is your Dual P3? Are you running SMP kernel? Does MythFrontend even have th

Re: MythTV frontend rebuffering problem

2006-08-30 Thread Roberto Mello
On Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 11:45:00AM -0600, Brandon Beattie wrote: > > Are you using 100mb/s networking? Wireless and even 10mb/s can do this. Yes. -Roberto -- Install failed. Attempting to transfer virus to c: /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/ma

Re: MythTV frontend rebuffering problem

2006-08-30 Thread Brandon Beattie
On Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 11:00:39AM -0600, Roberto Mello wrote: > I have a Myth frontend machine where I get frequent "prebuffering" pauses. > It causes the video -- particularly on Live TV -- to be jerky. I'm only > doing standard TV, no fancy HD. > > The backend server is an Athlon 1.8 GHz, 512 M

MythTV frontend rebuffering problem

2006-08-30 Thread Roberto Mello
I have a Myth frontend machine where I get frequent "prebuffering" pauses. It causes the video -- particularly on Live TV -- to be jerky. I'm only doing standard TV, no fancy HD. The backend server is an Athlon 1.8 GHz, 512 MiB of RAM. The frontend where the problem happens is a Dual P3 with 512 M