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Video Stutter - gbx - 21st Jun, 2014 12:26 PM
Running a clean install of xbian 1.0rc2
Been running xbian and dealing with this little issue for a while... it's not a show stopper but it'd be cool to figure it out.
all my movies are on an smb share over gigabit Ethernet.
I get occasional stutters in predicable spots in movies. I suspect intense graphics are a cause..
But when running top, I see that mmcqd\0 is consuming the highest CPU percentage when it's normally quiet and low on the top list. xbmc.bin is normally consuming 30-40 percent cpu... mmcqd/0 spikes, video stutters... then it resumes and xbmc.bin is top.
thanks all!!!
RE: Video Stutter - IriDium - 22nd Jun, 2014 04:45 AM
I would have a look at the load on the smb share first - especially if it a NAS or low powered machine.
Also the RPI is only 100/10!!!
Are these large HD files? If so, can you play them if you copy them to a USB flash drive?
My guess is the amount of data being passed and having to be decoded.
Install nmon - "sudo apt-get install nmon" and monitor the cpu/wait and net traffic. You should be able to determine the area of issue from that (or use top, vmstat)