[mythtv-users] Re:RE:Waited 2 seconds... Still... Any more ideas?
Tony Maro
tony at maro.net
Mon Dec 29 12:52:28 EST 2003
> -----Original Message-----
>
> As far as I know. I've been using the straight OSS stuff so far.
>
> I was able to reproduce the freeze myself twice by working my
> machine harder than normal, but still each freeze took more
> than an hour to manifest. I'm trying to repro again with "-v
> all" for both frontend and backend and see if I see anything
> that gives me a clue in the logs. With your machine and those
> settings you shouldn't be having any performance problems,
> and up until you have the problem you don't seem to have an
> inordinate number of prebuffering pauses which would indicate
> your hardware was having trouble keeping up. I don't know
> what to tell you. Hopefully I'll hit the problem again and
> see something in the logs that gives me a clue.
>
> -Mark
Well alsa was a trainwreck. I got it working, but sound stuttered
horribly. I went back to the alsa OSS emulation.
What I find interesting is that it only happens on LiveTV. From what I
understand, the frontend gets all vid streams from the backend whether
recorded or not. I'm perfectly able to record a show, watch a recording
AND be compiling in the background without problems. I'd think if it
were directly audio or performance related I would see the problem there
as well.
What I'd love to do but can't afford is build one more box and separate
the backend/frontend to see what happens (or get a hardware MPEG.) My
regular desktop PC has the nforce audio and sounds like the chipmunks
when I try to use MythTV. It took me a week to get XMMS working right
by tweaking modules.conf, so I have no idea how to fix it with MythTV.
There's no known problems with the VT8235 chipset on my mobo, is there?
-Tony
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