[mythtv-users] Playback problem -- random short pauses

Tom Lichti redpepperracing at gmail.com
Sun Apr 17 21:03:30 UTC 2011


I've been following this thread as I have been seeing short pauses or
hiccups in my playback, mostly of OTA HD material from an HDHR. I
finally figured out my problem, and it may help someone else, so I add
my findings:

- if you have your backend storage directory nfs mounted on your
remote frontend, try unmounting it to force the backend to stream it.
Since I have done that, I have not see one hiccup (aside from when the
OSD is present, but I can live with that). When there were hiccups,
they would show as a series of these messages in the frontend log:

2011-04-17 16:34:58.674 Player(0): Waited 100ms for video frames from
decoder AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
2011-04-17 16:34:58.683 Player(0): Waited 100ms for video frames from
decoder AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
2011-04-17 16:34:58.692 Player(0): Waited 100ms for video frames from
decoder AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
2011-04-17 16:34:58.809 Player(0): Waited 100ms for video frames from
decoder AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
2011-04-17 16:34:58.818 Player(0): Waited 100ms for video frames from
decoder AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
2011-04-17 16:34:59.059 Player(0): Waited 100ms for video frames from
decoder AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
2011-04-17 16:34:59.068 Player(0): Waited 100ms for video frames from
decoder AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

I know, it's probably obvious to everyone else, but if it helps
someone else, great!\

Tom


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