[mythtv-users] Suddenly started getting 'WriteAudio: buffer underrun'

Philippe Van Der Gucht philippe at vandergucht.org
Sat Oct 2 18:30:15 UTC 2010


I actually thought this as well but then I realized other channel 
recordings are played without a problem.

Maybe it's also worth mentioning that I have the most problems with 
channels on the Astra 1 (19.2E) satellite.

qeldroma at gmx.net wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> it's impossible, that this is just a nearly full partition, right?
> Had this several times as "reason" ;)
> 
> ----- Ursprüngliche Mail -----
> Von: "Philippe Van Der Gucht" <philippe at vandergucht.org>
> An: mythtv-users at mythtv.org
> Gesendet: Samstag, 2. Oktober 2010 19:33:05
> Betreff: [mythtv-users] Suddenly started getting 'WriteAudio: buffer	underrun'
> 
> Greetings!
> 
> I had a smooth running mythtv 0.22+fixes system with a HVR-4000 and 2 
> days ago recordings started to stutter.
> 
> This only happens with certain channels of my satellite provider 
> 'tv-vlaanderen'.
> I am almost certain they changed the encoding of their channels.
> 
> However when playing the recordings via the console with mplayer 
> everything runs smoothly!
> This is how I know mythtv's internal player does not know how to handle 
> them.
> 
> I have upgraded to 0.23.0+fixes but to no avail.
> 
> Can I at least use an external player for recordings as a workaround? I 
> have not found how.
> 
> Thanks for any help.
> 
> 



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