[mythtv-users] Playback problem -- random short pauses

[Steven Adeff]

On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 11:01 PM, Jean-Yves Avenard <jyavenard at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 23 May 2011 12:49, Steven Adeff <adeffs.mythtv at gmail.com> wrote:
>> does your video stutter too?
>
> it's not noticeable by much ; can only see it in the logs that
> something went amiss. My amplifier takes a while to resync over hdmi
> audio ; so this it where I notice it the most (and because I'm so
> acute to audio problems)
>
>> how much ram do you have?
> 4GB
>> how fast is the drive your sql database is on?
>
> It's a samsung 7200 RPM 1TB disk.
>
> No known issues.
>
> Jean-Yves

I'm thinking it may be a SQL access speed issue. increasing the HD
buffers don't seem to fix it, and it only seems to be an issue with
recordings. I also notice that if you rewind and play that section
again it will be fine, so it's not the recording in any specific way.

I'm wondering if you were to decrease your available memory if the
pauses will get longer. I'm currently thinking of maxing my backend
motherboard to 4GB (I'm at 3 now) and see what that does to my minor
stutter. My parents system has a slightly worse stutter, only 2GB of
ram, want to try increasing theirs as well and see if that helps.

I'd guess there is some code inefficiency somewhere that may help as
well, but I wouldn't know where to start to try and debug something
like that.

-- 
Steve
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