[mythtvnz] jumpy video

Noel & Di noel at igrin.co.nz
Thu Sep 4 07:39:06 BST 2008


The problem is with the ati card drivers in mythbuntu - even the 
un-supported drivers won't do it.  Streaming the file to a 450 Mhz 
windoze machine using xming & putty there is no jumping, or hesitations, 
it just plays smoothly, as it should.

Steve Hodge wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 4:45 PM, Barry Clearwater 
> <barryc at bcsystems.co.nz <mailto:barryc at bcsystems.co.nz>> wrote:
>
>     Isn't the downside of xfs that it needs to be defragmented
>     occasionally?
>
>
> I haven't heard that before, have you got any links?
>  
>
>     With a mythbox always on, when would you be best to do that?
>
>  
> I ran xfs for a couple of years without any problems. I would imagine 
> that the large files mythtv creates would not produce a lot of 
> fragmentation. I'm using jfs now, just to try something different, and 
> I'm not seeing any advantages to that.
>
> Cheers,
> Steve
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