Guide refresh causes stuttering

[daldana 123]

I have two HD Homeruns and an M3U tuner for a total of about 200 channels and every time the guide refreshes, what ever is playing (Live TV, Recording, or Movie) stutters until the refresh is completed. This is on the local network using direct streaming. Is this one of those instances where having the transcoding directory on a different drive would help? Thanks.

[Luke 42086]

Hi there, can we please look at an example?

Thanks !

[Marijuana 12]

14 minutes ago, daldana said:

I have two HD Homeruns and an M3U tuner for a total of about 200 channels and every time the guide refreshes, what ever is playing (Live TV, Recording, or Movie) stutters until the refresh is completed. This is on the local network using direct streaming. Is this one of those instances where having the transcoding directory on a different drive would help? Thanks.

It's good practice to do that yes, example I do Cache:, Metadata:, Transcoding temporary files: all directed to external drives.

You should see good results.

[Carlo 4561]

Hi, just wanted to follow up with you to see if you tried an alternate transcoding path and see if this helped?
Typically the biggest gain you can get is putting your transcoding folder on a "throw-away" SSD drive.
By throw-away I mean purchasing the cheapest 256 to 512Mb SSD you can find and using it just for this purpose.  If it were to die to getting pounded it won't matter because it was cheap and can be replaced.  You have no actual data stored on this drive so long term reliability is not a concern.

[daldana 123]

Hi all,

I did change the path to a separate drive (albeit a regular hard drive as a test) and it did help, but I also made one other change which combined with the changed path eliminated the stuttering when the guide refreshed. The second thing I did was to change the priority of the emby server executable to "High" instead of "Normal".

I will pick up a small SSD and make the path change permanently very soon. Thanks all for your help.

Dave

[Luke 42086]

Thanks for the feedback.