[mythtv-users] Prebuffering pause / Broadcasting free space avail / audio waiting for buffer to

[Gee, David]

Thanks Allan....worth a try I guess, what's the address of the SVN repo?

Regards
David

Allan Wilson wrote:
> On 6/28/06, Ryan Duffy <dusteur at excite.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> > I've posted on this subject before but not got very far,
>>
>> Lots of people have, and nothing has changed...
>>
>> > Suggestions anyone?
>>
>> So many people have posted about this, with so many different sets of
>> hardware, kernel versions, and linux distributions, that we can
>> surely only
>> conclude that there is a bug in mythtv. Noone had this problem before
>> myth
>> 0.19.
>> Personally, I suspect it is a buffering issue caused by waiting to read
>> video/audio data from the disk that hasn't yet been written i.e. you are
>> waiting at the end of the LiveTV file for the fresh data that hasn't yet
>> been written out, since it is written in chunks for the sake of
>> efficiency.
>> Perhaps modifying the parameters of the kernel I/O scheduler would
>> make a
>> difference? Or forcing myth to write more frequently when watching
>> LiveTV?
>>
>> I'm too busy to debug this problem, but if its not fixed in 3 months
>> time,
>> I'll do it then...
>>
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>
>
> I'll throw this out there for what it's worth. I updated to the last
> SVN and
> I am using the next to latest nVidia drivers and last night I saw
> HiDef tv
> recordings with smooth playback and no audio problems. I was using Bob
> with
> audio buffering and sync audio selected. This is a first for me.
>
> Allan
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