[mythtv-users] Prebuffering pause

[Bruce Markey]

Curtis Stanford wrote:
> I've read mailing list posts about this "prebuffering pause" problem and the 
> consensus seems to be that data is coming in faster than the frontend can 
> handle so it pauses.

Nope, the other way around. The pause is when the player just
plain doesn't have any more decoded frames in the buffer so
it can't continue until more frames show up. Why frames aren't
ready in time could be any number of reasons. In this sense,
the "prebuffering pause" is a symptom like a cough; it could
be a runny nose, lung cancer or anything in between.

--  bjm