Hi,
I think this issue needs to have more hardware details posted.

I run a lot of stuff on my non fancy e-machine 1600+ (1. something gig) up 61 days, 5:20, 4 users and no issues like is being described, actually, no issues. I do my e-mail, posting this entry with mozilla, a ftp server is running in the back ground, and also I am ripping a couple of oldies cd's to play later. Also I am currently ssh'd into a friends machine as he had " log fill up the / " I also burn my iso's, it keeps a clock (voice announcements on the 1/2 hr) This all is on a R5A16 install (can't justify an upgrade as it is too busy) which has been as stable as a rock.

The only thing I don't do is print I am hoping cesman will point me towards the correct path ..? But that's my only issue, personnal problem.

I would say theremay be a hardware problem and you may be correct suspecting an irq. Try moving cards into different slots, different ribbon cable for the hard drive, cooling and etc.

Mike

I had 'every few seconds' stutter in the video & sound of my networked R5A16 setup.. It went away when I eliminated a hub between the sending and receiving machines... The video only went through the router after that and the stutters stopped. I was suspicious because the collision lights on the hub were on all the time.

I had the same problem, all works but then video becomes choppy and jerks. In my case it was the bios power setting on my ASUS motherboard. It was throtling the CPU when it was getting too hot. That option in the bios had three choices (Throttle, Shutdown, Disabled) I put in a thermaltake heatsink with a superquite 120mm fan and Disabled the bios option. No more choppiness or jerks in any video stream (live/recorded, DVD/Mpeg4 etc)

One of my roommate's computers had a nasty network worm which was killing our whole network (and making my problem worse). I put a spare router in between and had him fix his box and it got better. However any heavy network traffic on the Mythbox still seems to corelate to video messedupedness. I ordered a bunch of new hardware for the box last week for this problem and to add some features (DVD writing, extra serial port) etc. Totally O/T but I put together a few perl scripts for controlling X10 devices from Myth, anyone interested in a plugin maybe?

What speed is your network segment and how heavily loaded is it? We worked out at one point that it takes about 5Mbit/s of throughput which may be hard to come by on a shared 10Mbit/s segment , and a segment can only run as fast as the slowest device on it. Most folks these days should be runing at least 100Mbit/s but you never know what ancient evil is lurking ou there...

Heavy network traffic in this case is nowhere near full load. Its a 100Mbps switched segment. The only theory I can come up with for the corelation is perhaps a shared interrupt between the network card and PVR350. Either way, I've got a shiney Athalon64 that will probably be a smidge faster than the K7 and has a totally different bus/interrupt map, so we'll see.

I had to ask. We get lots of folks around here who are trying to do this over a wireless LAN connection and then wondering why it stutters...

Well throwing money at the problem seemed to solve it. The newer version of Knopp rocks significantly more than the one I installed this time last year as well. To top it all off, now that I'm using the nVidia card instead of the PVR350 framebuffer I can play videogames and watch transcoded video. Good stuff. Now I just need to figure out the OSX frontend. I've got it showing program data, but no video. This one IS on a wireless connection, but I expected to see something, just not something pretty.