[mythtv-users] Fast-Forward speed limitations?

[Allan Wilson]

On 11/17/06, Jerome Yuzyk <jerome at supernet.ab.ca> wrote:
>
>
> I find I cannot reliably Fast Forward more than 3X. For 5X and more, I get
> about a dozen samples (steps?) and then the picture stops. Pausing and
> Unpausing starts about half-way through what was FFed before the stoppage.
> I've pushed it a few times, with FF and RW, and Myth will wake up from its
> freeze, but if I do it enough Myth gets totally hosed to where I have to
> kill it.
>
> Is this a hardware limitation (too slow to keep up seeking and feeding the
> display stream from disk) or Myth getting befuddled?
>
> I am running 0.20-144 on FC5.
> The box is a Sempron 3100+, 512M RAM, some 80G disk (I think Hitachi) with
> DMA on and acoustic management turned off (about 3MB/s more throughput),
> and nVidia GeForce 6100 using 128M RAM, with their drivers.
>
> Could this be affected by using the ondemand cpufreq governor? I figured
> it
> would be a good idea to use this to let my CPU run cooler and last longer.
> I have it set up to throttle-up at 20% CPU load, which looked to me to be
> the average load when mythfrontend is running.
>
> [And while I'm here, thanks very much to all you friendly people that have
> answered my questions already. It's been a great part of my Myth
> experience, the list community.]
>
>
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I had this problem and upgrading to the latest SVN fixed it for me.

Allan
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