[mythtv] AVSync2 Improvements

[Peter Bennett]

On 2/12/19 12:31 PM, David Engel wrote:
> 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
Yes - i missed that. I will look into it and fix it. Thanks for letting 
me know.

Peter