[mythtv-users] mythmusic and wav files

Jim Morton Jim at Morton.hrcoxmail.com
Wed Jan 26 13:27:31 UTC 2011


On 1/26/2011 7:08 AM, William Kenworthy wrote:
> Hi, I have had problems playing wav files in mythmusic for a long time.
> mp3's play fine - but wav files max out the cpu and have long
> pasues/delays/missing pieces and system response (i.e., to lirc IR
> events) is slow or missed altogether - a symptom of the high load.
>
> This happens on a combined athon64 FE/BE and is worse on either of two
> atom/ION PXE disless FE's.
>
> Configuration is NFS for the music directory for the remote systems, but
> the FE/BE has it as the local storage.  Myth version is 0.23 fixes on
> gentoo (~6 years old for the FE/BE).
>
> Its actually mythfrontend that seems to generate the high load which
> implies its the builtin player.  Is there something I can do, or should
> I be using mplayer or something else to play wav files (how?).
>

The first step would be to check the frontend log.

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