[mythtv] AVSync2 Improvements

[David Engel]

On Tue, Feb 12, 2019 at 11:01:19AM -0500, Peter Bennett wrote:
> I have been using the latest patch https://code.mythtv.org/trac/attachment/ticket/13383/20190208_1644_catchup_plus.patch
> for a couple of days and it looks good now.
> 
> Mark- you said you may have some improvements - I plan to commit it anyway
> and those can always be done afterwards.
> 
> You said that making the wait into a series of short waits may improve
> things. Currently on a desktop system everything is between -5 and +5 ms so
> I don't know if much improvement is possible. Also on thinking about it I
> don't know how that would help, if the operating system is going to delay
> resuming a process on one wait, would it be less likely to delay it on a
> bunch of smaller waits?
> 
> If I don't hear anything back I will commit that patch to master and
> fixes/30.

Peter,

Perhaps you must have missed my report on IRC.  The 0208 patch causes
problems with live TV.  When starting live TV or changing channels,
playback stutters badly until it is briefly paused or skipped back.  I
don't know if earlier patches did this since I didn't test them on
live TV.

David
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