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

[Ryan Duffy]

Calin Brabandt wrote:
> On 6/28/06, Ryan Duffy <dusteur at excite.com> wrote:
> <snip>
>> 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.
> 
> Ryan,
> 
> If this were the cause, shouldn't we expect the
> prebuffering pauses to cease, if we simply pause
> playback for a short period and then resume play? 
> I've not noticed that briefly pausing playback
> corrects the problem, in general.

Yes, that's precisely the behaviour I observe when using LiveTV, and pausing for a couple of seconds is the generally adopted workaround.




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