[mythtv-users] Please Help - "Waited too long for decoder to fill video buffers"

[Jean-Yves Avenard]

On 2 January 2011 23:10, Matthew Anderson <muss3000 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
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> I need some help, I recently upgraded to the latest version from
> http://code.mythtv.org/svn/branches/release-0-24-fixes/ (revision 27419) and
> installed and set it all up fine. It was when I went to watch tv I had an
> issue where it would display the picture but after about 10 seconds the
> screen would go black and that is all I would see. I was not able to exit
> either.


mythtv switched to git ; as such 27419 is far from being the latest
and is in fact obsolete.

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> I did some investigation to see if the logs showed anything of any value and
> I came across the following: -
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> 011-01-02 21:54:14.597 Player(0): Waited 100ms for video buffers
> AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAUUUUUUUUuUuL

You will find that a fix was committed to 0.24 that prevent this issue
from occurring.


JY