[mythtv] AVSync2 Improvements

[David Engel]

On Tue, Feb 12, 2019 at 12:57:59PM -0500, Peter Bennett wrote:
> 
> 
> 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.

Thanks.  On IRC, I also added that other than the live TV issue, the
0208 patch worked very well.

David
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