[mythtv-users] mp3anywhere stops working during playback

[Michael Beauregard]

Joseph A. Caputo wrote:

>On Monday 03 November 2003 20:40, Michael Beauregard wrote:
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>>Joseph A. Caputo wrote:
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>>>Top-posting rearranged.
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>>>On Monday 03 November 2003 11:20, Michael Beauregard wrote:
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>>>>Joseph A. Caputo wrote:
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>>>>>On Sunday 02 November 2003 12:07, Michael Beauregard wrote:
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>>>>>>I have managed to get the x10 "mp3 anywhere" wireless remote
>>>>>>working with lirc. It actually works fine with mythtv for
>>>>>>navigating the menus and such. However, as soon as I start
>>>>>>watching live tv or a recording mythtv no longer responds to the
>>>>>>remote. I read a warning from lirc.org (
>>>>>>http://www.lirc.org/html/technical.html#bugs ) explaining that
>>>>>>heavy IDE activity can disable interrupts often enough to cause
>>>>>>signal decoding problems with lirc_serial and lirc_parallel
>>>>>>drivers. I'm not convinced that this is the problem since the
>>>>>>lirc mp3anywhere driver doesn't seem to use lirc_serial.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Has anyone else experienced this problem? Anyone find a fix for
>>>>>>it? I've been scouring the web and mailing lists archives for a
>>>>>>solution for a week now and I am stuck.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>BTW, here is my setup:
>>>>>>Dual P3-450
>>>>>>PVR-250
>>>>>>Voodoo3 tv-out
>>>>>>Soundblaster live
>>>>>>MythTV 0.11
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>>>>>>
>>>>>Are you using Myth's native LIRC support, or irxevent?
>>>>>
>>>>>-JAC
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>>>>irxevent
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>>>Hmmm... my guess is you either have a problem with your .lircrc, or
>>>your system is too bogged down during playback (unlikely).  Can you
>>>use the keyboard to control playback without problems?  And can you
>>>post your .lircrc?
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>>Keyboard works no problem every time. My .lircrc is simply a modified
>>version of Jarod's sample .lircrc that he uses for pvr250. It has a
>>few changes to a few codes and such, but otherwise nothing
>>interesting to me. If you still want to see it, let me know. BTW, I'm
>>not sure how much CPU usage I should be seeing on a dual 450 with PVR
>>250, but one cpu is usually near 90% and the other near 40%. My
>>impression from other posts is that people with comparable hardware
>>are not seeing this much cpu usage during livetv. Maybe it has
>>something to do with this.
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>Hmmm... 90% and 40%?  Is this all the time, or just during playback? 
>What process(es) is/are using up so much CPU?  Better check to see if 
>your Voodoo3 supports Xv and that you've got it configured properly... 
>sounds like you might be doing software scaling, which could explain 
>the hight CPU load.  You might need to fix your X setup, or get a new 
>video card.
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Well, I'm recording at 640x480 and playing back at 640x480 so scaling 
can't be the issue, could it?

Here is top during live tv:

21:17:59  up 2 days,  4:20,  3 users,  load average: 1.63, 1.86, 1.60
92 processes: 91 sleeping, 1 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU0 states:  26.4% user   2.2% system    0.0% nice   0.0% iowait  70.2% 
idle
CPU1 states:  56.1% user  21.2% system    0.0% nice   0.0% iowait  22.1% 
idle
Mem:   513284k av,  506416k used,    6868k free,       0k shrd,   89532k 
buff
                    322120k actv,   74128k in_d,    9960k in_c
Swap: 1052216k av,   10108k used, 1042108k free                  277420k 
cached

  PID USER     PRI  NI  SIZE  RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM   TIME CPU COMMAND
 1191 michael   15   0 44988  43M 23832 S    77.7  8.7 180:57   0 
mythfrontend
  817 root      15   0  7996 7264  2544 S    13.2  1.4 103:42   1 
mythbackend
 1027 root      15   0 94420  27M 15228 S    12.5  5.5  56:46   0 X
 1154 michael   15   0  2800 2800   672 S     1.3  0.5  37:19   0 kdeinit
 4770 root      15   0  1104 1104   864 R     0.9  0.2   0:00   1 top
    7 root      15   0     0    0     0 SW    0.5  0.0   0:32   0 kswapd