[mythtv-users] Dead Myth Box and "WriteAudio: buffer underrun"

Michael Haan michael.haan at gmail.com
Thu Mar 31 05:43:09 UTC 2005


Ok, I'm not sure if they're directly related, but I'm having issues
with Myth freezing my entire FE/BE box.  It has frozen (but will not
always) when:
-I FF, RW, Pause or Play
-Auto-skipping a commercial
-Finishing-up playback of a recorded show

These will often work, but way too often (read: more than once a
month) not.  I finally started piping output of mythFE and BE to a log
and got the following right before a system freeze:

2005-03-30 23:27:28.844 Video timing method: SGI OpenGL
2005-03-31 00:25:26.258 prebuffering pause
2005-03-31 00:25:26.293 WriteAudio: buffer underrun

The specs:
3800+ AMD 64
1G RAM
nForce 250 board
3 x 250G SATA drives
Turtle Beach sound card using spdif
Myth 0.17, no XvMC

Any ideas how to fix?


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