[mythtv-users] Prebuffering Pause on RH9, epia m-10000 and mythtv CVS install

[Bruce Markey]

Jason Corless wrote:
> The problem is that I am continually getting the "prebuffing pause" 
> message on Mythfrontend.  As such, the video and audio are jerky.
...
>  Stream #0.0: Video: mpeg2video, 480x480, 29.97 fps, 16000 kb/s

Try setting your bitrate to 4500 kb/s and max bitrate to 6000 kb/s.
16000 is the max and is overkill even at 720x480. The pauses are
because all the data isn't getting shuffled around and decoded in
time for the player to continue.

--  bjm