[mythtv-users] 0.27: Stalls and other niggles - fixed

[Stephen Collier]

On 23/05/2014 9:57 AM, Jean-Yves Avenard wrote:
> On 23 May 2014 04:25, John <reidjr at lineone.net> wrote:
>
>> Mikes patch reduces the blocking probability significantly. Added to your
>> change to cache the getframeswritten value, it probably more than enough  to
>> make the dropped frames invisible. However the root cause of the stalls was
>> the blocking of getframeswritten. I feel that continually calling
>> getframeswritten to autoskip in progress recordings is a waste of time in
>> most cases :-)
> in master and 0.27.1 calling GetFramesWritten isn't as bad. The value
> is cached for up to 3s, so multiple calls to it doesn't take much
> time.
>
> There were cases where GetFramesWritten was called up to 4 times
> successively (like during forward seeks)...
>
> This has resulted in much faster seek responses.. Was a couple of
> seconds on my system before, it's instantaneous now...
>
>   BTW, it wasn't calling GetFramesWritten for every frame, but in every
> event loop...
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Any idea when the 0.27.1 tag becomes official or moved to fixes/0.27. Is 
it likely to be days/weeks/months?

Cheers
Stephen