[mythtv] [mythtv-commits] Ticket #2708: patch: Allow remote FE/BE to prefer to use the myth protocol

[Daniel Kristjansson]

On Tue, 2006-11-21 at 13:08 -0500, James Armstrong wrote:
> >  FWIW: My in experience streaming works far better. It used to be slower
> >  (prior to 0.19), but it seems to be better since then. There are also
> >  several posts in the dev & users lists that suggest to use streaming
> >  rather than nfs mounts.

> I am one that finds streaming via protocol better than nfs mount. It 
> seems sometimes when playing around and mount the share that I find 
> myself wondering why playback stutters some. I eventually remember to 
> unmount the share and let the streaming take over. Works better.

This is almost certainly because we require a larger buffer when
streaming, and for some reason your network needs the larger buffer.
It would be easy to add a "Do Extra Buffering" checkbox and add
the needed change in the RingBuffer initialization parameters.

-- Daniel