[mythtv] Reasonable avsync at startup

[Isaac Richards]

On Sunday 29 August 2004 10:50 am, Doug Larrick wrote:
> Bruce Markey wrote:
> > One thing it shows is a long standing problem (at least pre-0.6!)
> > with the need to slew a lot at startup before audio and video
> > come into sync. It would be great if you could look into this
> > to help make the best possible DVR for all of us =).
> >
> > It seems that audio time and video time are initially set relative
> > to the system clock. However, video is almost always way ahead
> > of audio by tens of frames and has to wait for audio to catch up.
>
>  From some experimentation this morning, it appears that the issue here
> is that when audioout comes out of pause, it still has to play the
> soundcard's entire buffer (full of zeros) before it gets around to
> playing the audio we just gave it.  My soundcard has a 64k buffer, so
> for normal audio that's just over half a second.  The best fix would
> probably be to clear out this buffer when coming out of audio pause;
> alternatively video could wait until audio hits the target time until
> unpausing.

Does the 'Aggressive soundcard buffering' setting help at all in this regard?

Isaac