Poor video quality
Possible causes: Content is stored at a bit rate different from that at which it was encoded. Content might be poorly encoded. The destination client might not be able to keep up with the video stream.
Check the bit rate of the content. The bit rate should be roughly
filesize * 8/playtime, where playtime is the duration of a title, in seconds. Try another title, preferably one encoded at a lower bit rate. Try a different destination client.
Corrupt disk labels
You cannot complete the boot process because of corrupt disk labels.
Possible cause: shutting down a server which is the midst of delivering streams.
Reboot
Kernel panic with SAHI queue threshold messages
Likely cause: ATM cable is disconnected.
Disk failure
If you have a single bad disk, use the procedure specified in Chapter 8 “Administering MFS Disks,” to replace the disk and restore data to the new disk. You do not have to interrupt the operation of the server to do this. If you have multiple simultaneous data disk failures, you must, following replacement, use smc_tar or ftp to restore original content.
Inconsistent video performance
Possible cause: “soft” disk errors.
Check /var/adm/messages for console messages indicating
If a single disk is displaying frequent
On a Sun MediaCenter server equipped with multiple Fast Ethernet interfaces, this could be caused by not having all (or both) of the Fast Ethernet links connected, if load sharing has been specified for those interfaces. When load sharing is in effect, the Sun MediaCenter software performs load balancing across multiple Fast Ethernet interfaces, treating the multiple interfaces like a single, logical output interface. Failure to connect all Fast Ethernet links results in
Chapter 10 Troubleshooting