mythtv slows to a crawl

[maverick0815]

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?

[totallymaxed]

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

[maverick0815]

I will check the commflagging...seems a good start, thanks :-)

[bongowongo]

What is commflagging? A sort of QOS?

[totallymaxed]

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

[Kezza]

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.

[b4rney]

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

[Kezza]

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,

[totallymaxed]

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

[Kezza]

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?

[totallymaxed]

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

[posde]

Mentioning stuff in IRC is not the best way to get stuff done.

Best way to get stuff done is:

• Create a trac ticket
• Grab someone in IRC and point 'em to the trac ticket.

[maverick0815]

I'm not sure about the realtime priority threads, but for me changing the commflagging to blank screen instead of try all methods worked.