Hdhomerun Help

[mohanman]

Hey guys,
I have been having stuttering issues with my hdhomerun and HD channels (QAM). If I close sagetv and launch VLC, everything is great. But if I go into sage, it stutters and doesnt play back smoothly, also on my clients. I switched the overlay from VMR9 to Overlay because I was curious if my system couldnt handle it and thus the stuttering, but that isnt the issue either.
Any advice?
Thanks
Mo

[jmv]

I've had stuttering issues as well both on client's and on the server. I have pretty high end HW (server is Dual socket Xeon 5160's--dual Conroe's at 3.0Ghz/1333 FSB; Clients are Core 2 2.67's with 7600 to 7950 GT vid cards). I found I tested various settings and found that using VMR9 was the least stuttering.

One issue I did find with my setup is that the HD on the server side had speed issues. It was a while ago, but when I was running single disk on the server it couldn't keep up with both the recording and playback. I went to Raid 0 off a 3ware 9550 and dual Seagate 7200.10 320 GB drives and it was issue free...I have since gone to Raid 5 with 4 mixed SATA 250 GB drives and no issue.

Long story short, I would look at the HD usage on the server and see if you are saturating read/writes and try all the various Vid render options in Sage.

good luck.

mv