[mythtv-users] Buffer Overflow Help

[Tony Maro]

zomb at rogers.com wrote:

>I relaize this question keeps circulating around and each has a different fix, 
>but I'm lost now. I've tried everything I can to get myth to work fine on the 
>following 
> 
>AMD 1.0ghz t-bird 
>A-bit kt7e 133 
>768MB RAM 
>ATI TV Wonder 
>SNDBLSTR LIVE! 
> 
> 
>I have ALSA installed and working, as well as the BTTV driver, but every 
>time I try to watch LiveTV, I get video stuttering co-inciding with my 
>prebuffering for pauses, and then the audio buffers overflow. I've played 
>around with the settings in mythsetup for a while, but to no avail. I changed 
>the audio input to ALSA:hw:0,0 and it helped, but i still get choppy video. 
>Here are my dmesg and myth logs snipits: 
>  
>

> 
>Audio buffer overflow, audio data lost! 
>Audio buffer overflow, audio data lost! 
>
I had almost identical output on my AMD with TV Wonder and SB Live with 
Alsa.  I ended up using the Alsa OSS emulation and it smoothed out that 
problem completely.

-Tony