[mythtv-users] Re:prebuffering pauses and mythtv 0.13

[Thomas Fjellstrom]

On December 18, 2003 10:49 am, Mike Smith wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm probably the one who posted about the Alsa
> drivers.
> It was to fix an audio stuttering, video slowdown
> issue.  Nothing to do with prebuffering messages.
>
> But,  now I'm getting the prebuffering messages.  I
> have a backend downstairs, and am runnning
> mythfrontend
> on my desktop system while I work.  Systems are
> connected
> with a Wireless G network using drivers from Linuxant,
> which seem to have good performance.  My NFS file
> transfer rates are in the 6 - 10 Mbps range.  Six
> being
> the slowest result I've obtained while testing.  I
> don't know how this equates to the data transfer rate
> that MythTV obtains.  A posting earlier indicated that
> even if you set up NFS,  MythTV does not use it in
> playing video's on a remote frontend box.
>
> I don't get these messages on my central system which
> is running mythbackend, mysql, and mythfrontend all
> on one box.  I only see this on my remote frontend.
> I don't think the alsa drivers play any part in this
> problem.

Nope.. my ALSA driver change fixed the stuttering.. And I was hoping it would 
fix the prebuffering messages too, but they arn't all that serious, most of 
the time I don't notice the pause I get every 30 seconds or so. 

> Thanks,
>
> Mike


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