[mythtv-users] ALSA, intel8x0 and WriteAudio: buffer underrun

[Michael T. Dean]

Al McIntosh wrote:

> I have an AMD Sempron 2800+, MSI nForce4 K8N Neo3 with onboard nVidia 
> Corporation CK804 AC'97 Audio Controller. I have been experiencing 
> problems with mythfronted freezing during playback of recorded shows. 
> I have to kill it but it becames defunct.
>
> I am using alsa 1.0.10 and myth 0.18.1
>
> I believe it's the sound card because of the following mythfrontend 
> output appears when the crash occurs:
>
> 006-01-07 14:27:19.240 prebuffering pause

Sure it's not an I/O issue?  Perhaps the buffer underrun on the audio 
was due to the lack of data caused by prebuffering pauses.  Were you 
playing HDTV?  Problem with your hard drives or network (if using a 
network filesystem or Myth streaming)?

Mike