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Hardware Support Discussions related to using various hardware setups with SageTV products. Anything relating to capture cards, remotes, infrared receivers/transmitters, system compatibility or other hardware related problems or suggestions should be posted here. |
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As to why the affinity setting made an improvement, this is likely due to the non-shared cache's on your cores, so when the process would switch from one core to the other, it would be 100% cache misses.
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Buy Fuzzy a beer! (Fuzzy likes beer) unRAID Server: i7-6700, 32GB RAM, Dual 128GB SSD cache and 13TB pool, with SageTVv9, openDCT, Logitech Media Server and Plex Media Server each in Dockers. Sources: HRHR Prime with Charter CableCard. HDHR-US for OTA. Primary Client: HD-300 through XBoxOne in Living Room, Samsung HLT-6189S Other Clients: Mi Box in Master Bedroom, HD-200 in kids room |
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Hi Folks
I'm hitting a big wall trying to get Sage and my HD-PVRs working nice in a ESXI. It all 'works' but the HD-PVR recordings stutter and tear. Any pre-recorded or downloaded movies work great. I've tried XP, W2003Srv, and Win7. 1.5.7, 1.5.6 and the new 1.6 drivers. All about the same. I'm pretty sure it's due to poor ESXI USB performance. My MB does not support vt-d, so I'm using the base usb-passthru support. I've read in the forums that some have had good luck by setting their HDPVR to 720P. How do you do that? Update .. Found the answer. The Video Source/STB ets the resolution. In this case it's a Starchoice Motorola DSR505. There's a little button under a cover that toggles the component resolutions. http://forums.canadian-tv.com/showth...-work&p=315428 tia Wes Last edited by zoltran; 12-24-2011 at 10:12 AM. Reason: Google is my friend |
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Well .. changing to 720P didn't help the Sage recordings.
They stop, stutter and loose audio sync every few minutes. I'm recording to a RBA mapped drive that nothing else is using. It's odd.. because I can view the video just fine with TME..even in a VM. Looking for any suggestions here folks. Don't want to put Sage on a separate PC again, but maybe that's what I have to do. Maybe I try ESX 4.1. I'm on 5.0 now, perhaps that's the factor. |
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Something like media streaming really needs hardware virtualization. there are just far too many performance penalties with software virtualization, and media streaming is SOOO sensitive, it's just not a good idea.
If you really need to run VM's for other tasks, perhaps you'd be better off running the VM's under a windows host, and run sage on the host OS.
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Well..
Just did a test of Windows MCE 7 and DVBlink-HDPVR running on my Windows 7 Guest machine. This is the same guest that I'm testing Sage in. So far .. works great. No drops or stuttering. .. Even when watching a HD stream from within the ESX guest console !! Which is quite remarkable. I'll let MCE record some more tonight and review the recordings in the morning ... Fuzzy... I don't think it's I/O latency. I easily get over 5-900Mbs between guests on file copies etc. and both TME and MCE 7 have no trouble with the HDPVR. To me .. it really now looks like a SageTV issue.. Perhaps some obscure properties setting. Wes |
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The overnight recording from Win7 Windows Media Center via dvblink was flawless.
So it must be something within SageTV. Anyone have any idea about about where to look? Properties etc? |
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We're making progress.
I found a post about interupt clashing with some motherboard based cheip sets. I moved the two HDPVR's to and old PCI 2 port USB card. Now things work about 99.5%. There is sometimes a barely perceptable stutter in playback. I don't see this when playing back HD movies or other imported video. I'll keep playing. Still on ESXI 5.0 |
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+1. this is important in my experience.
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I'm going to give XenServer 6.0 and ESX5 a try soon and see the performance. I'm presently planning to move my SageTV server to a dedicated box if upgrading doesn't help.
Right now I also have a 30TB RAID array running on a VM with PCI pass through and experience some issues with that so moving to physical should fix a few things. |
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