[mythtv-users] Terrible LiveTV performance

[Curtis Stanford]

On August 15, 2003 10:50 am, Isaac Richards wrote:
> On Friday 15 August 2003 12:37 pm, Curtis Stanford wrote:
> > You're an amazing dood Isaac. Your first suggestion fixed the problem for
> > me. I've been changing channels for about 30 minutes now with no problem.
> > By the way, it's more like line 3598 in NuppelVideoPlayer but I knew what
> > you meant.
>
> Excellent.
>
> > I've left the OSD on since the first patch fixed the problem. I don't
> > know what this change will do to everyone else but I like it! What does
> > setLowBuffers do anyway?
>
> The OSD suggestion was just because I occasionally run out of CPU when it's
> getting blended into the video on my m10000 -- it always recovers right
> after, but..   I'm hoping that some improvements I have planned for the
> near future should help that out a little.
>

Yes, I get some stuttering when the OSD fades out as well.

> The setLowBuffers just makes sure it has plenty of audio in the audio
> buffer thread.  I haven't tested it extensively (wrote it for the xvmc
> support), but I'm going to make it a configurable option in my last commit
> before the 0.11 release..  Something like 'Extra audio buffering' on the
> playback screen for when you update.
>

It doesn't make sense to me that an audio buffer change would fix what appears 
to be a video/audio freezing problem. Can't argue with results though :)

> Isaac
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