[mythtv-users] MythVideo delay before start

[Christian Hack]

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> From: mythtv-users-bounces at snowman.net
> [mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at snowman.net]On Behalf Of f-win at gmx.net
> Sent: Wednesday, 28 May 2003 7:13 AM
> To: mythtv-users at snowman.net
> Subject: [mythtv-users] MythVideo delay before start
>
>
> Hi, I am using the last mythTV and Video version from the CVS. Hitting the
> play button on a video file in mythVideo causes up to 15sec delay
> before the
> video starts. Executing the same "mplayer" cmd from the cmd line the video
> starts immediately.
> Where is the problem and what can be done?

I have seen this, although in my case it's more like 10 seconds. Sorry I
don't have solution, but sometimes mine starts nearly straight away and
sometimes it doesn't. Looking at the logs, I can see mplayer spewing out a
whole lot of debug info. Specifically it prints a line with "cache fill
xxx%" or something like that. It then overwrites it with the next value. It
does this many thousands of times when you start a video. It seems the video
doesn't start until this cache reaches a certain point.

Perhaps mplayer has a "quite" switch allowing you to turn off this debug
info (specifically the cache stuff) which you don't see anyway. I'm at work
so I can't try it out on my box. Bit of a long shot but your question jogged
my memory.

I haven't investigated much further than this since the delay doesn't bug me
that much (yet).

Christian.