Playback pausing

Channels DVR Server
#22

New Mini is making a big difference in a lot of things. Recording and watching something live is much improved, nothing choking.

New recordings are playing flawlessly (mostly). Old recordings are still pausing. Which is kind of weird, right? Not skipping or stuttering. They just freeze and then pick back up right where the stopped.

One thing the log is showing with this new set-up is a ton of buffer full, first 50% then right up to 90%. This was the last set in a whole string of warnings.

2019/02/26 21:25:19 [WRN] Buffer for 10400584 ch46.1 is more than 50% full (clients=1, len=16777620)
2019/02/26 21:25:21 [WRN] Buffer for 10400584 ch46.1 is more than 75% full (clients=1, len=25165868)
2019/02/26 21:25:25 [WRN] Buffer for 10400584 ch46.1 is more than 95% full (clients=1, len=31877468)
2019/02/26 21:25:26 [WRN] Buffer for 10400584 ch46.1 is more than 99% full (clients=1, len=33219788)
2019/02/26 21:25:36 [WRN] Buffer for 10754DF1 ch2.1 is more than 50% full (clients=1, len=16779128)

There is one glitch that trips up when I try to "double FF" through the commercials. The little spinning wheel or whatever it is pops up. I can back out with the Menu button and come back and it unsticks it.

Right now my server drive is still the external. I have a larger internal coming and want to switch to that drive for the DVR server. Do I drag the TV folder over and then reassign the server drive?

Joe

#23

This is bad, and will cause glitches on the recording. Something on the system isn't able to keep up and I'm guessing it's the hard drive.

#24

That's what I was thinking. So I think going internal (which is an SSD) will make the final step.

Can I copy the "TV" folder from the external onto the internal and then just change server drive without losing anything?

Joe

#25

Not just TV, you need the entire DVR folder with Logs Database Images etc. Just copy or move and then update the location on the DVR settings web UI- uncheck DVR checkbox, update path and recheck

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#26

Got it.

Thx,
Joe

#27

Ah. I did not have a DVR directory. Everything was on the root level of the hard drive.

Joe

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#28

Feeling pretty confident here. I copied everything over to the internal drive which ultimately should be fine. I never save shows after I've watched them. But it did reveal an issue that was not HDD related. It seems there was some sort of protocol issue between the external HDD and the Mini. I had a tough time finally getting all the recordings copied over, constant errors and freezing, even with Carbon Copy Cloner. I had to sacrifice a few recordings, which is fine. The ones we like most made it over.

Both drives show no problems with Disk Doctor and other drive utilities. It is an old enclosure and the best port on the old Mini was the Firewire2 port. I will be replacing both the drive and enclosure with a new TB drive. I'll still use the internal drive for Channels, but I do still use the external as an archive for backing up important documents I don't need taking up hard drive space on my laptop. (it is a redundant back-up so nothing lost yet) and my iTunes library.

Final test will be tonight with all the scheduled recordings, but I predict it will be smooth sailing.

Joe

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#29

Glad you were able to figure out the issue!

#30

Flawless night. The old gear served me well for almost 7 years with EyeTV. This makes me as happy as a caveman in a Geico commercial.

Joe

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