[mythtv-users] Waited too long for decoder to pause

Daniel Kristjansson danielk at cuymedia.net
Fri Dec 26 15:11:10 UTC 2008


On Thu, 2008-12-25 at 23:17 +0100, Jelle De Loecker wrote:
> This has only reared its ugly head in the past few weeks.
> I'm running the trunk version, off an AppleTV. (So no vdpau or anything
> fancy)

> 2008-12-20 23:42:57.420 WriteAudio: buffer underrun
> 2008-12-20 23:43:08.140 NVP: Prebuffer wait timed out 10 times.
> 2008-12-20 23:43:09.940 NVP: Prebuffer wait timed out 10 times.
> 2008-12-20 23:43:11.740 NVP: Prebuffer wait timed out 10 times.
> 2008-12-20 23:43:13.540 NVP: Prebuffer wait timed out 10 times.
> 2008-12-20 23:43:15.340 NVP: Prebuffer wait timed out 10 times.
> 2008-12-20 23:43:15.439
> RingBuf(myth://192.168.1.2:6543/55130_20081220234152.mpg): Waited 8.0
> seconds for data to become available...

This has been happening to me in the last few weeks, I think it is
the RingBuffer class causing the problem. But it hadn't been modified
for months before this bug appeared, so if it really is the RingBuffer
maybe some change elsewhere that has triggered a previously hidden bug
in that code.

-- Daniel



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