[mythtv] [patch] Fix for sluggish pause

[Isaac Richards]

On Saturday 04 December 2004 01:25 pm, David Engel wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 04, 2004 at 02:29:57AM -0500, Isaac Richards wrote:
> > I thought the entire point of breaking everything for this was to protect
> > against those changes being made async?
>
> Not exactly.  The point was to make sure certain things didn't change
> in unexpected places.

Allright then. =)

> > The bigger issue, though, is that there's a _lot_ of code that assume
> > that NVP::Pause blocks until certain threads are paused, which isn't true
> > with this patch anymore.
>
> OK, that can be handled rather easily.  You do realize, though, there
> is always the case where a full live TV buffer will cause a forced
> unpause.

Right.

> > > Whether we add a lock or not, I still think we should strongly
> > > consider the change to return early from NVP::GetFrame.  Try changing
> > > between 1/16 speed and paused to see why.
> >
> > As long as it sleeps in GetFrame for a bit.
>
> It will.  It will jsut be capping the max time it sleeps to something
> like 10ms.

That works for me.

Isaac