[mythtv] cvs 02-12 works, cvs 02-23 doesn't

[Isaac Richards]

On Sunday 23 February 2003 07:18 pm, Bruce Markey wrote:
> Isaac Richards wrote:
> > On Sunday 23 February 2003 12:59 pm, Eli Criffield wrote:
> >>line 346 was already 'audio_buffer_unused = 0;' but it was conditional on
> >>line 345 'if(audio_buffer_unused < 0)', so the first thing i tried was
> >>updating cvs and recompiling, same problem, except livetv worked fine
> >> (but that mite have been because i uncommented out ServerMode=Master in
> >> backend_settings.txt that i didn't before)
> >>
> >>I then added  audio_buffer_unused = 0; at line 347, thus making it
> >>unconditional. And the same thing happens on playback and livetv now has
> >> a bit of a ship to it about every second.
> >>
> >>I am getting "Audio buffer overflow, audio data lost!" in playback, but
> >>those start about the same time it decides to play in fast mode and the
> >>audio comes un-synced.
> >
> > Ok, can you remove any mods you made to the source, update to current
> > CVS, and try with both 'jitter reduction' and 'aggressive soundcard
> > buffereing' unchecked under the first screen of the Playback settings?
> >
> > If that doesn't work, I'd need to know more exactly when it broke for
> > you.  A range of the 12th to the 21st is a little big =)
>
> One other thing to test that may be related. In
> MC/libs/libmythtv/NuppelVideoPlayer.cpp there are two
> reference to a delay value of 40000. Change these to
> 200000 and uncomment the debug message. This is the
> short pauses at startup while audio and video to synch
> up. If the debug messages stop printing after the first
> second or two but the problem persists, then this is not
> the source of the problem.

I've sort of taken care of that with a recent checking -- if you turn off the 
jitter reduction (which works well for me, btw, nicely done), it reverts back 
to the old 200,000 number and other associated code.

Isaac