[mythtv-users] HD Choppy or Jerky

[Dick Steffens]

On 02/01/2014 12:13 PM, Doug Lytle wrote:
> Dick Steffens wrote:
>> CAT-5 cable, and 10/100 Ethernet. I don't use the wireless side of the
>> router.
> You'll really want to be gigabit for HD.

Are you saying that I need gigabit Ethernet between my HDHomeRun Prime 
and the machine doing the recording, or playing the program live?

Would it work to have gigabit between the HDHomeRun Prime and the 
machine doing the recording, then copy the recorded file to the machine 
connected to the TV and have a stable playback?

Very rarely do we watch live TV anymore. The Super Bowl, tomorrow, is 
probably the only thing we plan to watch live. Mostly we record what we 
want to see and then watch it later. If I set up a backend connected by 
gigabit Ethernet to my HDHomeRun Prime to do the recording, but 
transferred those recordings over 10/100 Ethernet to the playback 
machine, should that work? It would be very impractical to run better 
than CAT-5 cable to where the TV sits. Or can gigabit Ethernet work on 
CAT-5 cable. (I haven't kept up to date on cable. Last I knew there was 
CAT-5e cable, but I don't have any of that in my house.)

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Regards,

Dick Steffens