[mythtv-users] Pauses in Live TV

[Jay Camp]

Brian,

I'm experiencing the same subtle blip in watching live tv.  This is just a
_pure_ hunch, but perhaps the live tv buffer is playing too fast and is
running out of buffer to play for that microsecond.  Why this would be
happening, I don't know.  Hopefully somebody else may have some
recommendations!  But I just wanted to let you know you weren't the only one
with this problem.

What I tend to do is pause the tv for a few seconds, then unpause... leaving
a bit of buffered TV.  This seems to help some, although it could just be a
placebo affect.  *shrugs*

Regards,

Jay

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <brian at brianmoses.net>
To: "Discussion about mythtv" <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
Sent: Monday, October 06, 2003 6:38 PM
Subject: [mythtv-users] Pauses in Live TV


> Firstly, I'm getting barely-perceptible (borderline subliminal) pauses in
both
> video and audio when watching Live TV.
>
> I asked earlier on the list, and it was reccomended that I try to go and
adjust
> my resolution settings.  I dropped it down to 400x300 (from 400x400),
tried
> reducing the compression quality and tried watching some Live TV.  I am
still
> getting the annoying pauses in the playback.
>
> Whenever I watch previously recorded TV shows, I have no problems with the
> playback. Its crisp and continuous.
>
> Does anyone have any other suggestions I might try to eliminate this
problem?
> I'm running MythTV v.11 on Debian Woody.  My hardware setup is an AMD XP
1800,
> 256mb PC-133 Corsair ram, WD 60gig HD (5400RPM) and an AverTV card.
>
>
> Secondly,  I have a second computer that used to function as my MythTV
backend
> (I built a new PC to use primarily as my backend). Whenever I try and use
the
> frontend (to connect to my new backend PC) the application hangs with the
pretty
> MythTV blue background and never gets to the menu to Watch TV/recordings.
Etc.
> I have reconfigured everything to point at the IP of the machine with the
> backend, but it still hangs up.  I even tried to remove everything MythTV
> related on the PC and then reinstall only the frontend, but I get the same
> problem.  I'm pretty stumped right now and would appreciate any input.
>
> Thanks for the help,
> Brian
>
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