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Subject: Samba connection Jerky, sometimes.
Hi,
I am running into a vexing issue. I am streaming video form a MythTV backend on Centos4 to a WinXP box over a 100mps wired connection. The network card on both the backend, and my XP box, in addition to the switch that services this segment of the network are locked down at 100FD.
I want to use Samba shares because I have read in several places that it is a better solution when multiple users access the back end.
When I stream video to the MythTVPlayer, not using a Samba share, everything works great. However, when I use the Samba share I defined, I get some weird results. Using version 0.3.5 of the MythTVPlayer works much better than using version 0.4.1.
Using v0.3.5, the video loads, but at the beginning the stream skips (both video and audio). However, if I skip ahead to the middle of a video, it plays smooth. And after doing that, if I move the slider back to the beginning of the video, it plays smooth also. This is a repeatable behavior on all the videos I have recorded thus far.
On version, 0.4.1, the player either locks up upon loading the video, or it is rebuffering, even though I have disabled stream buffering. I disabled buffering on both versions of the player because the stream constantly rebuffers throughout a recording.
I would attach the output of the log.txt, but it is truncated by the maximum characters allowed in the forum. Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Ken
I am running into a vexing issue. I am streaming video form a MythTV backend on Centos4 to a WinXP box over a 100mps wired connection. The network card on both the backend, and my XP box, in addition to the switch that services this segment of the network are locked down at 100FD.
I want to use Samba shares because I have read in several places that it is a better solution when multiple users access the back end.
When I stream video to the MythTVPlayer, not using a Samba share, everything works great. However, when I use the Samba share I defined, I get some weird results. Using version 0.3.5 of the MythTVPlayer works much better than using version 0.4.1.
Using v0.3.5, the video loads, but at the beginning the stream skips (both video and audio). However, if I skip ahead to the middle of a video, it plays smooth. And after doing that, if I move the slider back to the beginning of the video, it plays smooth also. This is a repeatable behavior on all the videos I have recorded thus far.
On version, 0.4.1, the player either locks up upon loading the video, or it is rebuffering, even though I have disabled stream buffering. I disabled buffering on both versions of the player because the stream constantly rebuffers throughout a recording.
I would attach the output of the log.txt, but it is truncated by the maximum characters allowed in the forum. Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Ken