[mythtvnz] Pause between video files

[Tim, Donna & Erin Gibson]

On Wed, 08 Feb 2006 19:46, criggie@criggie.dyndns.org wrote:
> > I've got the vob files split at 1gig a piece and when the next file is
> > loaded
> > there is a pause... the screen goes back to the gallery and then to the
> > next file and carries on playing, is this normal?
>
> I don't play files like that, so I've not seen this myself.
>
Do you transcode? or what...

> Why are you splitting the files at all?  Both XFS and JFS have good
> response time with huge files.  I routinely deal with 8x 95 Gb backup
> files on an XFS partition.
>
> Try not splitting them and see how you go.  Otherwise make sure that dma
> is on for your hard drives - use    hdparm -i /dev/hda    as root to
> check.
>
I use DVDDecrypter running on wine and the default is to split at 1gig plus I 
rip on my main pc and transfer the files across my network to the mythtv box, 
any large (full dvd vob's) files just die mid transfer so splitting seems a 
good idea...
> > I'm running myth on a Celeron 2.8ghz with 512meg ram so it should be
> > good. I
> > have set the machine up with cpu frequency scaling and watching a video
> > it's at 700mHz, live tv it's at 1.05gHz, could this be it?
>
> Doubt thats the problem.  The machine should step up the instant more CPU
> is required.
>
>
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Regards
Tim, Donna & Erin Gibson