[mythtv-users] Prebuffering pause
Tom Lichti
tom at redpepperracing.com
Fri Dec 15 16:52:15 UTC 2006
Jesse Dhillon wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am getting pretty poor HDTV playback. This machine is quite
> well-endowed in the CPU and RAM departments, but with the pcHDTV 5500
> tuner when I watch HD channels I can't go more than 20 seconds without
> these annoying pauses. When I check the logs, I see:
>
> 2006-12-15 06:04:49.869 NVP: prebuffering pause
>
> Repeated several times. Even after increasing the size of the ring
> buffer to about 25MB I get no improvement. This sucks, and Google's
> results pretty much convince me that I have to live with this because
> this is a spurious bug with many possible causes. Has anyone else
> overcome this?
Need some more info.
CPU?
RAM?
Video Card and driver?
Myth revision?
Separate or combined FE/BE?
Tom
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