[mythtvnz] Long delay when starting playback

[Stephen Worthington]

On Tue, 13 Jun 2017 14:12:27 +1200, you wrote:

>When I hit Play on a selected recording, there is a long delay, usually 10 to 20 seconds, before it actually starts to play.  Once it a while it starts after only a second or two.  Any ideas what could be causing that?  OS is Trisquel 7 (Ubuntu 14 derivative) with kernel 3.13.  MythTV Version is v0.27-193-g8ee257c.

That happens for me when the file is on a hard drive that needs to
spin up.  Do you have any recording drives that spin down to save
power?