[mythtv-users] Prebuffering pauses (*sigh*)

Kyle Kelly kyle at kylekelly.com
Sun Nov 21 18:20:22 UTC 2004


Dennis Oelkers wrote:

> Hello list,
>
> I guess this is a topic which pops up on the list every now and then, 
> but it is the last thing
> that disturbs my tv experience using mythtv. :)
>
> On my newly built MythTV-box everything seems to run fine, besides the 
> fact that I get
> prebuffering pauses when watching live tv _or_ recordings every minute 
> (min/max interval
> is 30s/2mins), which is quite annoying.
>
> - The hdd has DMA enabled, so that's not the cause.
>
> - The hardware seems to be rather oversized than undersized (P4 2.4ghz 
> (prescott), 512mb
> ram, samsung 160gb sata drive, a bt878 (*yuck*), all in a pundit r (-> 
> radeon 9100 igp
> running with the stock xorg 6.7.0 drivers, not the ati ones)).
>
> Anyone got any ideas on how to get rid of this?
>
> Kind regards,
>             Dennis Oelkers
>
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I had prebuffering pause problems when I had my bitrate set too high.  
Perhaps you can try lowering it significantly and working your way back 
up to a decent level.  Worth a try.



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