[mythtv-users] Prebuffering Pause?

Matt skd5aner at gmail.com
Sat Jul 21 02:11:05 UTC 2007


On 7/10/07, David Frascone <dave at frascone.com> wrote:
>
>
> On 7/10/07, Ben Lancaster <lists at benlancaster.co.uk> wrote:
> > David Frascone wrote:
> > >
> > > I've done some more digging, and found these messages strewn
> > > throughout my mythfrontend logfile whenever the video pauses.  I added
> > > -v playback, and I have this output -- anyone know why this is
> > > glitchy?  This is NOT HD -- it's plain old SD.  (Although it does
> > > happen in HD -- at approximately the same frequency)
> > >
> > >
> > > 2007-07-09 16:07:48.950 Avg read interval was 198 msec. 96K block size
> > > 2007-07-09 16:07:48.990 Avg read interval was 198 msec. 128K block size
> > > 'video_output' mean = '33365.12 ', std. dev. = '364.60', fps = '29.97'
> > > 2007-07-09 16:07:49.238 Avg read interval was 193 msec. 64K block size
> > > 2007-07-09 16:07:49.255 Avg read interval was 197 msec. 64K block size
> > > 2007-07-09 16:07: 49.279 Avg read interval was 197 msec. 64K block size
> > > 2007-07-09 16:07: 49.298 Avg read interval was 197 msec. 64K block size
> > > 2007-07-09 16:07:49.366 Avg read interval was 181 msec. 64K block size
> > > 2007-07-09 16:07: 49.398 Avg read interval was 198 msec. 64K block size
> > > 2007-07-09 16:07: 49.922 Avg read interval was 195 msec. 64K block size
> > > 2007-07-09 16:07:50.138 Avg read interval was 193 msec. 64K block size
> > > 2007-07-09 16:07: 50.395 Avg read interval was 194 msec. 64K block size
> > > 2007-07-09 16:07: 50.662 Avg read interval was 195 msec. 64K block size
> > > 2007-07-09 16:07:50.678 Avg read interval was 197 msec. 64K block size
> > > 2007-07-09 16:07: 50.851 NVP: prebuffering pause
> > > 2007-07-09 16:07:50.852 NVP: Waiting for prebuffer.. 0
> > > AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAu
> > > AALAAA
> > > 2007-07-09 16:07:50.926 Avg read interval was 194 msec. 64K block size
> > > 2007-07-09 16:07:50.947 Avg read interval was 198 msec. 64K block size
> > > 2007-07-09 16:07:50.967 Avg read interval was 198 msec. 64K block size
> > > 2007-07-09 16:07:50.987 Avg read interval was 197 msec. 64K block size
> > > 2007-07-09 16:07:50.994 NVP: Waiting for prebuffer.. 1
> > > AAuLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAUUAUUU
> > > UUUAAU
> > > 2007-07-09 16:07:51.006 Avg read interval was 197 msec. 64K block size
> > > 2007-07-09 16:07:51.026 Avg read interval was 196 msec. 64K block size
> > > 2007-07-09 16:07: 51.246 Avg read interval was 190 msec. 64K block size
> > > 2007-07-09 16:07:51.399 Avg read interval was 189 msec. 64K block size
> > > 2007-07-09 16:07:51.418 Avg read interval was 196 msec. 64K block size
> > > 2007-07-09 16:07: 51.443 Avg read interval was 197 msec. 64K block size
> > >
> > > The others don't show any more detail.  This happened when upgrading
> > > from 13534 to 13836.
> > >
> > > I have the same version (13836) running on another frontend w/o issues.
> > >
> > > Thanks in advance,
> > >
> > >
> > > -Dave
> > >
> > > --
> > > David Frascone
> > >
> > > Oxymoron: Safe Sex.
> > >
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> > No idea how/why this helps, but I had exactly this problem on my FC4,
> > FC5 and FC6 systems until I added 'noapic' to my kernel args:
> >
> > default=0
> > timeout=1
> > splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
> > hiddenmenu
> > title Fedora Core (2.6.20-1.2952.fc6)
> >         root (hd0,0)
> >         kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.20-1.2952.fc6 ro root=/dev/sda2 noapic rhgb
> > quiet
> >         initrd /initrd-2.6.20-1.2952.fc6.img
> >
> > Give it a whirl, hope it works for you too.
> >
> > Ben
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>
> That did it!  I'll update the bug with the new info!
>
> Thanks a million!
>
>
> -Dave
>
> --
> David Frascone
>
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>

Didn't work at all for me, I still have the prebuffer pauses after the
ffmpeg sync in SVN.

Thanks!
Matt


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