[mythtv-users] Low-info picture leads to audio breakup

[Paul Bender]

Paul Gardiner wrote:
> Michael T. Dean wrote:
>> On 10/09/2008 04:35 AM, Paul Gardiner wrote:
>>> Anyone else seen this: most of the time playback on my FE is
>>> perfect, but every time the picture fades to black, or blooms
>>> to white, the audio stutters.
>> You /need/ to (or, put more generally, /everyone/ should) enable:
>>
>> Extra audio buffering
>> Enable this setting if MythTV is playing "crackly" audio and you are 
>> using hardware encoding. This setting will have no effect on MPEG-4 or 
>> RTJPEG video. MythTV will keep extra audio data in its internal buffers 
>> to workaround this bug.
> 
> Brilliant, thanks! That indeed works. Do you have any idea of the
> nature of the bug?  Just interested.
> 
>> Note, also, that this setting is on by default, so someone has disabled 
>> it on your system...  :)
> 
> I'm sure I didn't touch it. Maybe it's set by Minimyth. I'll ask the
> author.

In MiniMyth, I have patched MythTV to change this default for as long as 
I can remember. I am sure I had a reason once, but for the life of me I 
cannot remember what it is. Therefore, I have now removed this patch.