[mythtv-users] "Audio buffer overflow, audio data lost!" vs. Reception

Ray Whiteman ray.whiteman at consultant.com
Fri Aug 15 14:20:04 UTC 2008


Duncan Brown wrote:
> Ray Whiteman wrote:
>   
>>     Hello,
>>
>> I am seeing many of these errors in the frontend log, during live tv and 
>> recording playback.
>>
>> 2008-08-14 20:02:18.572 NVP::AddAudioData():p1: Audio buffer overflow, 
>> audio data lost!
>>
>> This post seems to indicate that reception is the culprit. Could this 
>> error be caused by poor reception? Any experience appreciated.
>>
>> http://www.mythtv.org/pipermail/mythtv-users/2004-June/047029.html
>>
>>
>> _
>>     
> I saw this error just before I rebuilt my myth box recently, and it was 
> so bad I had to use my PS3 via UPnP to watch anything. Turned out it was 
> my graphics card had gone bad. I replaced the card with a spare and 
> everything was fine.
>
> However this was only for a week max, as the box was rebuilt on a new 
> machine very soon afterwards, so don't take that as a definite solution.
>
> I only mention it as reception was definitely not the culprit, so don't 
> concentrate on that too much.
>
> Dunc
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Hmm ok. I coincidentally have a new mobo, vid card, memory and proc (woo 
E8400) ready to go, to feed my HDTV requirements, so I will see if the 
errors disappear once I get that installed.


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