[mythtv] EITScanner caused playback issues

Jan Kleinig lueddich at gmx.de
Thu Jul 20 18:52:50 UTC 2006


Hi,

thanks for the hints, I hope increasing the buffer will help. In a 
Pundit-R chassis there's no place for a 2nd HD :( and the 
optimize-script runs every day by cron...

I'll test and report!


Daniel Kristjansson schrieb:
> On Wed, 2006-07-19 at 22:54 +0200, Jan Kleinig wrote:
>   
>> It stumbles about every 4 minutes... :(
>>     
>
> That's about right for this being the scheduler query. It runs just
> about every 5 minutes give or take some (intentional) randomness.
>
> This won't be fixed in 0.20, but I have some hope for 0.21.
>
> But there are somethings you can do:
>   1/ Run the myth.rebuilddatabase.pl script.
>      Corrupted databases add considerably to the query time.
>   2/ Increase the buffering in the DVB Recorder.
>      Setup/TV Settings/General on the last pane. Look for
>      "HD Ringbuffer size (KB):" and increase it to 14100.
>   3/ Place the DB on a separate hard drive. (generally in /var)
>   4/ nice mysql (this won't do any good without #3)
>
> Please tell everyone in mythtv-users about the workarounds :)
>
> Don't do all of them unless you have to. Except for #1 they all
> have trade-offs. And the other option, of course, is not to use
> EIT. It is still a work in progress.
>
> -- Daniel
>
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