[mythtv] Streaming Prebuffering Pause
Brian Foddy
bfoddy at visi.com
Sat Feb 12 07:25:27 UTC 2005
On Monday 07 February 2005 07:03 pm, Brian Foddy wrote:
> Yesterday I upgraded to the CVS snapshot (about noon central time); a
> ivtv driver and kernel upgrade also accompanied this.
>
> Anyway, when I hit the Pause key while viewing either
> live tv or recordings, then on resume the frontend will hang
> with infinite streams of Prebuffering Pauses. The only thing
> to do is Control-C the window and restart. The backend is
> not affected Sometimes, the stream will stop after ~50 and
> play will resume, but most of the time its hung.
>
> The front and backend are both running on a 1400 P3,
> plenty of ram, 4x10K scsi disks. I'm using XvMC.
> If I turn off XvMC, the problem seems to go away.
> There is no problem fast forward, rewind, etc.
> This same machine and
> cards ran fine for the last 8 months before the upgrade on
> 0.15 and 0.16. The play is perfect before
> hitting the Pause key.
>
> Brian
Following up on this, upgrading to 0.17 today did not solve this
problem. If this is a known problem, sorry for the dupe report.
Thanks,
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