[mythtv-users] [Q] : how to trace "wait for 2 seconds..." problem

[aaron]

On Fri, 14 Nov 2003 12:16:17 -0600 spake Aran of:

> 
> You should set up ntp, instead of syncing your clock once an hour.  Using
> ntpd should take less network resources and keep your clock in sync
> throughout the hour.  
> 
> Unfortunately, the ntp docs can be intimidating but it's pretty easy to get
> a simple client configuration set up.
> 

Meh, "netdate bacon.uwaterloo.ca" (or any UNIX server, I would imagine) is
easy enough... and it's pretty fast. :)

I set that up a couple of years ago when my assignments were due
(electronically) at 11:59pm. :)  I've mostly kept it on now because I've
noticed that my system seems to have some terrible clock drift at times.

But, I think I've decided that clock drift is not the culprit of my hangs.
Around the time I see the hangs, the clock jumps by pretty miniscule amounts
(less than .5 seconds)

I think Myth is reading my e-mail... I only ever saw the hangs during
LiveTV... until other people started reporting it happening at other times...
now it hangs randomly during playback, or suddenly it'll start playing in
slow-motion... fun. :)

If I can, I'll try to get a stack trace of some kind. But the last time I
tried to compile with DEBUG, it turned off optimizations, which made Myth
essentially useless to me... my video settings pretty much max out my system,
so without optimization, I got skips and jumps and pauses and lots of other
fun stuff. :/

I have an ATI-TV Wonder (PCI, not VE), using the bttv driver from 2.4.22, so I
doubt it's an ivtv issue ;)

aaron  (who needs to get some sleep this weekend)