[mythtv-users] Slight Pauses in Playback/Live TV

[Tom Lichti]

Tim Sawyer wrote:
> Thanks for your thoughts everyone, keep 'em coming.
>
>   
> More info:
>
> The drop outs in frames, where noticable, might coincide with hard drive 
> access, I can hear it chirping.  hdparm gives:
>
> /dev/hdb:
>  Timing cached reads:   462 MB in  2.00 seconds = 230.48 MB/sec
>  Timing buffered disk reads:  226 MB in  3.07 seconds =  73.56 MB/sec
>   

If you can move the database off to another machine, even temporarily, 
I'd try that.

Tom