[mythtv-users] Mythfrontend (mythvideo) .25 crashes and timeouts

[Phill Wiggin]

On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 2:08 AM, Bob K Mertz <lists at bibleboy.org> wrote:

> I personally would lean more towards a bandwidth issue rather than codec
> but I can't say for sure.  I don't know enough about the insides to
> really help but I think I would look in the direction of checking your
> network connections.  I know that, for instance, if I have a DivX video
> on my backend server and playing to a frontend using storage groups it
> rarely would play correctly -- lots of skipping and jumping.  Those same
> video files seem to play perfectly if I'm using an NFS share to the same
> machine and using iptraf showed that the consumption of bandwidth was
> astronomically larger with the storage groups -- but this was only one
> type of video file and all the others worked just fine.  It might be
> worth installing iptraf or some other program to give you an
> understanding of what bandwidth is being consumed.
>
>
Thanks for the suggestion.  These files are shared via NFS, and HD .mp4s
play fine, but smaller, low-rez .avi files are the ones that fail. The
frontends are wired (vs. wireless) and had no bandwidth issues with .24.
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