[mythtv] Possible Live TV Audio buffering problem in 0.17 ?

[Eric A. Litman]

Yan-Fa Li wrote:
> Running kernel 2.4.29, with ALSA 1.0.8.  I've noticed a problem watching 
> live regular TV, don't have HD, when you
> switch channels. Both my frontends are exhibiting the problem.  Managed 
> to correct it in one by enabling audio buffering but the other is still 
> doing it.  Remote backend running over 100BT.  Watch live tv, then start 
> channel surfing.  Audio starts to back up and console starts printing 
> messages about audio buffering problems.  Video also starts to get 
> jumpy.  Also
> using the new libmpeg2 option since my recordings are from a PVR250.
> 
> It can be worked around in two ways, pause the TV and then unpause and 
> rewind or escape back to the menu and hit
> live TV again after switching channels.  Myth 0.16 didn't exhibit this 
> problem for me.  Has anybody else seen this
> problem ?

I'm experiencing this as well.