[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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