[mythtv-users] SOLVED: skipping/pausing/buffer issues in MythVideo
with mplayer
David W Davis
davidw.davis at gmail.com
Sun Jan 9 23:47:43 EST 2005
I'm running mythtv 0.16 on fc3 installed with Jarod's Guide. My
videos are on a windows share and are mounted via Samba. Whenever I
tried to watch something, I was having major skipping/buffer issues.
I knew it wasn't a network issue because I could watch these files
from other windows machines with no issues. I know my frontend was up
to the task, being an Athlon XP+ 2800 with 512 MB ram. I didn't have
any issues playing recorded tv shows. All this time I thought I was
having issues because my .asoundrc wasn't set up properly or it was a
problem with ALSA. Updated ALSA with no luck and messed around with
my .asoundrc. While I was getting sound in everything else (except
MythMusic which I'm still working on), I was only having major
skipping issues in MythVideo. So I updated mplayer and tried updating
codecs (Is there an easy way to update codecs in linux? I only really
updated xvidcore since most of my rips are xvid encoded. By easy I
mean utilizing apt-get). I also tried letting mythfrontend run suid
root as suggested on Jarod's guide. No effect. Finally I decided to
try another player. Installed Xine and everything works like a champ.
I don't know what the issue was, but using another player worked for
me. Just thought I would let others know in case they were battling
with this issue.
DaveD
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