[mythtv-users] frontend freeze on "audio waiting for space on soundcard" solved

[Mike Choy]

After many weeks of trouble shooting, I have fixed this by changing the
sound card from a soundblaster live to a sound blaster audigy.

Mike C

Mike Choy wrote:
> To reply to myself
>
> It does look like the "audio waiting for space on sound card" is normal
> as I have just checked my second mythbox which does not exhibit the freeze
> looks like I need to try a different tact on trying to locate the
> frontend freeze issue.
>
> Mike C
>
> Mike Choy wrote:
>   
>> Hi guys
>>
>> While troubleshooting a fronted lockup/freeze problem I enabled logging
>> with the following command.
>>   
>>     
>>> mythfrontend  -v all -l /var/log/mythtv/frontend.log
>>>     
>>>       
>> I seem to be getting a lot of the following messages.
>> ======================================================================
>> 2007-03-28 19:25:27.861 AO: audio waiting for space on soundcard: have
>> 72 need 4096
>> 2007-03-28 19:25:27.869 AO: audio waiting for space on soundcard: have
>> 1576 need 4096
>> ======================================================================
>>
>> Is this normal?
>> Is the frontend just syncing up audio with video, or have I got an
>> unoptimized sound system
>> when the front end freezes I get the following
>> ==========================================================================
>> 2007-03-28 19:38:15.536 AO: audio waiting for buffer to fill: have 1536
>> want 4096
>> 2007-03-28 19:38:15.536 AO: Broadcasting free space avail
>> 2007-03-28 19:38:15.544 AO: audio waiting for buffer to fill: have 1536
>> want 4096
>> 2007-03-28 19:38:15.544 AO: Broadcasting free space avail
>> 2007-03-28 19:38:15.552 AO: audio waiting for buffer to fill: have 1536
>> want 4096
>> 2007-03-28 19:38:15.552 AO: Broadcasting free space avail
>> 2007-03-28 19:38:15.560 AO: audio waiting for buffer to fill: have 1536
>> want 4096
>> 2007-03-28 19:38:15.560 AO: Broadcasting free space avail
>> 2007-03-28 19:38:15.568 AO: audio waiting for buffer to fill: have 1536
>> want 4096
>> ==========================================================================
>>
>> Have I got a sound card config problem and is this causing the frontend
>> to lockup
>>
>> by the way this is a DVB-T UK based front end running myth 0.20 on suse 10.2
>>
>> Mike C
>>
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