[mythtv] Slow Live TV Start

David Shirley dave at cs.curtin.edu.au
Thu Jun 2 01:14:47 UTC 2005


Hi All,

yes i too have noticed this.

I'm using DVB.

But I'm not using ffmpeg im using XvMC so im not sure if Harvard's comment
below apply's (unless ffmpeg code gets initiated anyways??)

Cheers
Dave

> I tracked the problem down to a the ffmpeg resync that was performed on
> May
> 22. The slowdown is in the code introduced in libs/libavformat/utils.c's
> av_find_stream_info function. This is used by the OpenFile function in
> AvFormatDecoder class which is used by the NuppelVideoPlayer class's
> OpenFile. The opening of the file is what is taking 10-15 seconds.
>
> --Harvard
>
> On 6/1/05, Harvard Pan <harvardpan at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Nope, I'm not using DVB.
>>
>> --Harvard
>>
>> On 6/1/05, Ashley Bostock <abostock at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > Using dvb here yes, didn't used to do it, just in a recent cvs.
>> >
>> > On 6/1/05, Adam Egger <adam.egger at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > > Are you using DVB? I thought it's just a problem with my DVB card,
>> > > because it takes twice as long to start LiveTV here with latest CVS
>> > > builds, too. I also wasn't able to find out why the screen stays
>> black
>> > > for so much time.
>> > >
>> > > On 6/1/05, Harvard Pan < harvardpan at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > > > Has anyone else seen a slowdown in startup of LiveTV? I just
>> updated
>> > to CVS
>> > > > and it appears that it approximately 10-15 seconds for the TV to
>> > actually
>> > > > show up. Was going to debug it, but if it's already a known
>> problem
>> > and
>> > > > someone is already looking into it, I wouldn't want to do double
>> > work.
>> > > >
>> > > > Thanks,
>> > > > Harvard
>> > > >
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