[mythtv-users] Frontend playback buffer

[Eric Dalquist]

I'm using an OS X front end and an Ubuntu back end to record and watch 
OTA HD content from a HDHomeRun. I'm using a Linksys WRT350N for 
wireless and routing.

If I run the network at 802.11G speeds everything works fine though I 
have to be careful that nothing else is on the network when watching 
shows as the HD stream uses 95% of the available wireless bandwidth. I 
can transfer files to/from the back end at 2-3MBps via scp and other tools.

If I run the network at 802.11N speeds playback in myth is very choppy. 
Bandwidth is fine, file transfers run at 8-9MBps and doing a direct 
stream from the HDHomeRun to VLC on the laptop is fine. The router isn't 
showing any status errors and all other network traffic works as expected.

I'm not quite sure what to try an do to resolve this. Are there any 
front-end buffering options that I could try changing?

I'm using the 0.21 release.

Thank you,
-Eric