[mythtv] "Extra Audio Buffering" setting

[Peter Bennett]

On 11/11/2017 08:14 PM, Stephen Worthington wrote:
> When playing downloaded video files, be aware that there is a nasty
> bug in one of the most commonly used programs used to make these
> files, Adobe Premiere.  Whenever it creates slow motion in its files,
> the audio/video interleaving seems to be disabled, at least for the
> slow motion section.  So you get all the video frames followed by all
> the audio frames, with no interleaving.  If the slow motion section is
> small enough, the playback program's buffering can cope with this, but
> MythTV seems to have a smaller buffer size than most Windows player
> programs, and that means it will fail to play back these files when
> the Windows software is OK.  This causes MythTV to be blamed for the
> problem, rather than Adobe.  I have tried to convince the owner of one
> web site that I subscribe to that it is an Adobe bug he should report
> to them and get fixed, but as he did not have sufficient technical
> knowledge I was unable to convince him and he just told me to use a
> better program to play the files.  My solution is to run his files
> through ffmpeg with the right options to get them re-interleaved
> correctly.  But it would be good to work out what sort of buffer sizes
> are commonly used in other software and make MythTV use at least that
> much buffer, so it does not get blamed for problems like this.

What is the visible effect of this in MythTV? When you say it fails to 
play does that mean it completely fails or is it out of sync or uneven? 
Can you provide an example or point me to one?

Peter