[mythtv-users] Live TV ("Waited 2 seconds...") freeze does not occur when using mpeg4

[bobnvic at everestkc.net]

Alan Snyder wrote:
> Playing with settings, I found that my Athlon 1.0GHz
> box
> uses less CPU doing live TV with mpeg4 (480x480, all
> else
> set to defaults) than it does with mjpeg.
> 
> I also found that the "Waited 2 seconds..." live TV
> freeze
> that I'd had both on my main box and on Knoppmyth v4
> playing from my main backend no longer happened.
> 
> Could this freeze problem be a problem with the mjpeg
> libs?

I have bttv encoding to mpeg4, but I usually get the "Waited
2 seconds..." in LiveTV on my PVR-250 (same specific problem
you describe below).

> I thought they were part of libavformat and therefore
> should
> work the same for everyone, not distribution-dependent
> but
> It sounds like everyone with this *specific* problem
> (live
> TV only, backend runs fine, frontend spits out "Waited
> 2
> seconds..." message repeatedly) might be running
> Mandrake.

But you just said up above that you also had this error
with KnoppMyth.

Bob C
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