[mythtv-users] Constant Video stalls/lockups - looking for suggestions

[Raphael]

Bruce Nordstrand wrote:
> Hi all
> 
> I am having a bit of trouble with video playback - both TV (PAL SD) and 
> videos of various types (avi, mpg etc). I am running MythBuntu with .021 
> on a 1Ghz Pentium III / 512Mb ram / FX5200. I was running 7.10 and 
> upgraded last night to Hardy to see if the problem would go away.
> 
> Playing *anything* will result in the video freezing for up to 30 secs 
> and this happens randomly and sometimes more than once. Videos are on a 
> network share via NFS and do the same whatever I use as the player 
> Internal, Xine, MPlayer. It doesn't matter if there is anything 
> recording or not - this machine is a combined frontend/backend. This 
> makes it real hard to watch things like Buffy and Dr Who!!! :)
> 
> Here's the kicker.... I installed (compiled) XBoxMediacenter for Linux 
> on this machine just to take a look. Somehow, it plays anything and 
> everything perfectly - no jumping, no freezes - just clean video playback.
> 
> My question is: What should I be looking into to get MythFrontEnd 
> playing just like XBoxMediacenter?  I must say that prior to installing 
> MythBuntu I had standard Ubuntu with a custom compiled Myth and did not 
> have these problems. I tried out Mythbuntu for the ease of it all after 
> going down a different track so to speak. I know it can't be the machine 
> because of XBMC playing fine so it has to be some settings somewhere.
> 

You didn't mention it, but have you tried playing files stored locally 
on the machine to rule out the possibility of a network problem 
mythbuntu might have but not regular ubuntu?
Raphael