[mythtv-users] 0.19, XvMC, and Prebuffer pause

[Joe Silver]

The pauses aren't so much pauses as they are momentary (like 1/10th of a
second) blip in the audio.  Maybe the video skips too, but it's much easier
to notice the audio.  I never figured a way around last night before I had
to hit the hay.  I was almost content to just deal with the interlacing
artifacts on nbc (1080i), until i switched to fox (720p) where the trouble
returned.  kind of a pain to have to switch interlacing on/off with simply
changing channels.  seems like something deeper may be going on here...

On 2/24/06, Ray Lischner <linux at tempest-sw.com> wrote:
>
> On Thursday 23 February 2006 04:06 pm, Steve Malenfant wrote:
>
> > What's the speed of you CPU?
> > If you start mythfrontend from a console, do you get "NVP:
> > Prebuffering pause" ?
>
> My wife has an Athlon XP 1800. I have an almost identical machine with
> an Athlon XP 3000. Both use XvMC and an FX 5200. My wife has never
> complained about pauses, so I have not investigated.
>
> I do not observe any unexplained pauses on my machine. When I run
> mythfrontend from a console, I do see a few NVP: Prebuffering pause
> messages, but I don't recall witnessing any actual pauses in the
> playback. I see more messages of the form
> VideoOutputXv Error: Child         E    was already marked as available.
> (I have no idea what that means.)
>
> Perhaps I haven't notice any pauses because lately I've spent more time
> fast forwarding and skipping than actually watching. (I'm trying to
> watch the Olympics, so I skip over all the cruft that NBC insists on
> shoveling at us.)
> --
> Ray Lischner
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