[mythtv-users] Prebuffering Pause every minute (PCTVStereo+Pundit-r)

[Graham Voce]

Well, believe it or not 'use video as timebase' fixed it! 
[Settings->TV->Playback]  Though I have little idea why...

I have watched stuff for a couple of days and although I get the occasional 
infrequent hiccup (guess everyone does) I do not get the prebuffering pause 
messages like I used to and playback is smooth!!

I can go on to fix the sometimes distorted sound and RW/FF issues now!

Thanks and regards, Graham

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tom Lichti" <tom at redpepperracing.com>
To: "Discussion about mythtv" <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
Sent: Tuesday, March 22, 2005 6:37 PM
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Prebuffering Pause every minute (PCTVStereo 
+Pundit-r)


> Graham Voce wrote:
>
>> Tom:
>>
>> Thanks for the suggestion but I don't believe I am using XvMC - I don't 
>> think ATI currently support it (can't see a mention on the Rage3D 
>> forums).
>>
> Ah, I must have missed that point... :)
>
>> I looked through the 'extremely choppy video' thread again, as I did a 
>> few days back, but could not really see anything of use.  Except perhaps 
>> the post:
>>
>> "I had this exact problem when playing the sound through ALSA dmix.
>>
>> I workarounded it by using the actual ALSA hardware device instead. "
>>
>> Any idea how I can check this?  My output is set to ALSA:default and 
>> mixer=default is this correct?
>>
> I believe so, although mine is set to /dev/dsp, but I should probably 
> change that...
>
>> I will try the video as timeline option tonight.  I have already tried 
>> turning off priority threads and the chmod a+s.
>
> I recall someone also mentioned something about libmpeg2 causing a problem 
> for him, might try that as well. The video as timeline option made it 
> worse for me, I believe, but that could have been something else.
>
> Tom
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