I am using the latest Influencers SB/SAB plugins and I am having an issue with post-processing. This is the first time I have ever used SB/SAB, and I did an install following the posted instructions a few days ago.

 

I have SAB download to my cache drive, and was originally using SB for post-processing, but it seemed to take forever for shows to process, so I switched to the sabtosickbeard.py script, which kicks in immediately, which is awesome.

 

However... regardless of whether I am using the script, or a manual post-process from SB, anyone watching videos while post processing is occurring has issues of the video freezing, stuttering, and sometimes restarting.

 

Given that I am pushing new files to my cache drive, and the post-processing is happening on the cache drive (I would presume), I don't understand why people watching videos would be affected. Prior to SB/SAB I would manually download files to my PC and push across to UnRAID. I could be pushing 5-8 files at the same time (basically 5-8 copy sessions as the destinations are all different folders), and I have never had a playback issue before.

 

Neither UnRAID, SAB or SB seem to report any log errors, so I am at a loss.

 

Any suggestions would be appreciated, or if there is anything I can upload to help provide clarity I am fine with that as well.

 

(NOTE: I added this same comment in the Plugin Design forum as I am not sure which is the right/best forum for my question. Sorry for the duplication).

 

Does this video stutter happen if someone is watching a video that is located on your array (i.e., not on the cache drive)?  My guess is you're running into a CPU or memory bottleneck, but your specs look like it should handle it fine. 

 

What else are you running as far as plugins?  How are you watching movies (SMB mount with XBMC, Plex, etc.)?  Next time you're running through the processing, take a look at the sysload located on the top right of the SAB page.  Post the 3 values, if you'd please (mine, currently, looks like this: Sysload: 1.89 | 1.84 | 1.75 | V=311M R=93M).

 

Long story short, something strange is going on.  Just need to figure out what it is.

Correct, they are watching a video on the array using SMB share to either XMBC or a Boxee.

 

For plug-ins I have SB/SAB/CP as well as UnMenu & Simple Features. CP is not doing anything yet as I only set it up.

 

I will try and capture the Sysload info this evening and post it.

 

Thanks

Here are the values while the post-processing script is running:

 

Sysload: 5.40 | 2.96 | 2.26 | V=142M R=58M

 

Please let me know if there are any other details that would be helpful.