[mythtv-users] Prebuffering pause

[Curtis Stanford]

OK, my bad. My question remains, however. I assume the common cause of this 
situation is that the backend has problems providing a consistent stream of 
video data (in those cases where a backend is used). My backend is what I 
would consider overkill (AMD Athlon 2100+ with two striped 80G drives, hdparm 
-t of over 80MB/sec) so I don't see that as a problem. I guess the other 
problem area is the network. I'm using a pretty high-end ethernet switch 
between the back and front ends.

Oh well, I don't expect people to debug the thing for me, just looking for 
people with similar experiences.

On November 24, 2003 02:56 pm, Bruce Markey wrote:
> Curtis Stanford wrote:
> > I've read mailing list posts about this "prebuffering pause" problem and
> > the consensus seems to be that data is coming in faster than the frontend
> > can handle so it pauses.
>
> Nope, the other way around. The pause is when the player just
> plain doesn't have any more decoded frames in the buffer so
> it can't continue until more frames show up. Why frames aren't
> ready in time could be any number of reasons. In this sense,
> the "prebuffering pause" is a symptom like a cough; it could
> be a runny nose, lung cancer or anything in between.
>
> --  bjm