[mythtv-users] More crashing when watching live or recorded tv (Increase prebuffer?)

wishbone at h4b.org wishbone at h4b.org
Wed Aug 6 12:12:43 EDT 2003


Well I assumed that mplayer used disk cache when caching, but possibly that is
a incorrectly assumption.  I'll give up and buy another motherboard praying
that a months worth in work will be fixed by that.

joshua

On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 03:26:00AM -0400, Isaac Richards wrote:
> On Wednesday 06 August 2003 03:13 am, wishbone at h4b.org wrote:
> > Is there a way to increase the prebuffer for watching live tv?  By
> > prebuffer I mean the time it takes before it starts playing the ringbuffer?
> >  I'm still having difficulties with mythtv stopping while playing recorded
> > or live tv. Usually what happens is the backend will crash and the front
> > end will just lockup when that happens.  I get no errors on the backend,
> > but the frontend reports something about QTIME and Delaying to next
> > trigger.  I even had my system just reboot once.  I've read that people
> > think it's ivtv's problem, but so far:
> >
> > mplayer with a 10meg cache will play all night long without problems
> > directly from /var/video
> > mythbackend records shows for me all day long without a problem.
> 
> And once you throw in video playback (and reading the file back off the disk 
> at the same time) and all the extra PCI bus bandwidth that means, things 
> break.  Those chipsets do _not_ work well with the ivtv driver.  Wishful 
> thinking isn't going to change that. =)
> 
> Isaac
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