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Title: mythtv slows to a crawl
Post by: maverick0815 on July 19, 2010, 06:27:04 pm
When I'm watching tv on my MD (asrock ion330) and I hit F7 or try something fancy as PIP the playback slows down to a crawl...the system becomes very unresponsive....
Is this to be expected on an ion-plattform?
Also I have an issue with some movies....they sometimes freeze for a couple of seconds, then fastforwards to keep up again. I can rewind to the original place and watch normally. I think I have found out that when MythTV wasn't running before I watched, the videos play smoothly, no jerking.
Anyone else experienced something like that?
Title: Re: mythtv slows to a crawl
Post by: totallymaxed on July 19, 2010, 06:43:24 pm
When I'm watching tv on my MD (asrock ion330) and I hit F7 or try something fancy as PIP the playback slows down to a crawl...the system becomes very unresponsive....
Is this to be expected on an ion-plattform?
Also I have an issue with some movies....they sometimes freeze for a couple of seconds, then fastforwards to keep up again. I can rewind to the original place and watch normally. I think I have found out that when MythTV wasn't running before I watched, the videos play smoothly, no jerking.
Anyone else experienced something like that?

Are you running vdpau? Have you got the MythTV's CommFlagging turned on? Another candidate is MythFilldatabase...that can really hose your Core too. Any of these or some of them in parallel might cause video streams to hiccup as you describe.

All the best


Andrew
Title: Re: mythtv slows to a crawl
Post by: maverick0815 on July 19, 2010, 07:18:27 pm
I will check the commflagging...seems a good start, thanks :-)
Title: Re: mythtv slows to a crawl
Post by: bongowongo on July 19, 2010, 08:35:25 pm
What is commflagging? A sort of QOS?
Title: Re: mythtv slows to a crawl
Post by: totallymaxed on July 19, 2010, 09:54:22 pm
What is commflagging? A sort of QOS?

Commercial Flagging... the post-process Myth runs if enabled to remove all the commercials from your TV recordings

Andrew
Title: Re: mythtv slows to a crawl
Post by: Kezza on July 19, 2010, 11:02:56 pm
Yep I'm running a new install as of last week and when I go in and out of TV guide the system locks up for few seconds or becomes jumpy. Eventually comes right but is pain in the arse.

I have not had chance to go through things yet but I do have comm skip turn on and VDPAU slim. I use a remote not keyboard so not sure what F7 does.

Running a 8600GT card.
Title: Re: mythtv slows to a crawl
Post by: b4rney on July 19, 2010, 11:13:45 pm
Another possibility is disabling realtime priority threads in mythtv frontend. I think it is enabled by default.

http://forum.linuxmce.org/index.php?topic=10101.msg69320#msg69320

Did you try this solution?
Find the playback settings page and uncheck 'Enable realtime priority threads'. Then you should be able to use the normal vdpau profile.
Barney
Title: Re: mythtv slows to a crawl
Post by: Kezza on July 19, 2010, 11:18:09 pm
Another possibility is disabling realtime priority threads in mythtv frontend. I think it is enabled by default.


Thats triggered the brain going :) I'm pretty sure I have done that in the past. Will test tonight.

Cheers,
Title: Re: mythtv slows to a crawl
Post by: totallymaxed on July 19, 2010, 11:33:01 pm
Another possibility is disabling realtime priority threads in mythtv frontend. I think it is enabled by default.


Thats triggered the brain going :) I'm pretty sure I have done that in the past. Will test tonight.

Cheers,

My understanding is that realtime priority threads are now disabled by default in recent installs/updates...if not they should have been! This could definitely cause the problems you seeing.


Andrew
Title: Re: mythtv slows to a crawl
Post by: Kezza on July 20, 2010, 08:21:21 am

Did the trick. realtime priority threads was ticked once changed no delays when changing to guide.

I'm not 100% sure what snapshot I installed so maybe a slightly older one.

Can someone with current snapshot confirm this?
Title: Re: mythtv slows to a crawl
Post by: totallymaxed on July 20, 2010, 10:00:58 am

Did the trick. realtime priority threads was ticked once changed no delays when changing to guide.

I'm not 100% sure what snapshot I installed so maybe a slightly older one.

Can someone with current snapshot confirm this?

Great. I have mentioned the need for this to be defaulted to 'off' to Posde in the channel.

Andrew
Title: Re: mythtv slows to a crawl
Post by: Marie.O on July 20, 2010, 11:02:35 am
Mentioning stuff in IRC is not the best way to get stuff done.

Best way to get stuff done is:
Title: Re: mythtv slows to a crawl
Post by: maverick0815 on July 20, 2010, 11:34:09 am
I'm not sure about the realtime priority threads, but for me changing the commflagging to blank screen instead of try all methods worked.