[mythtv-users] Xine Dropping Frames over 100Mbit NFS Mount

Tom Dexter digitalaudiorock at gmail.com
Sat Mar 15 14:18:25 UTC 2008


On Sat, Mar 8, 2008 at 1:23 PM, Mache Creeger <mache at creeger.com> wrote:
> I have a MBE (AMD 2200 XP+ (1.8GHz), 1GB memory) running Fedora 7,
>  2.6.23.15-80.fc7, a SBE (VIA M10K (1Ghz), 1GB memory) running Fedora
>  7, 2.6.23.15-80.fc7, and a FE (AMD Athlon 64 X2 4600+ (2.4Ghz), 2GB
>  memory) running Fedora 8 latest 64-bit kernel. I view SD movies with
>  xine by playing isos over 100Mbit ethernet NFS mounts. xine was
>  chosen because it works best for viewing DVDs on the slowest machine
>  - the SBE.
>
>  Using my remote (ATI Remote Wonder) over lirc on the SBE or FE to
>  either jump forward or back in a DVD often results in an error
>  message stating that I have dropped frames. The message takes up the
>  entire screen and is waiting for me to use the mouse to click OK.
>  This only happens when I jump forward or back and not in any other
>  command. Since my SBE and FE do not have a keyboard or mouse and only
>  have the remote, I have to go to another computer and use VNC to
>  reset it. Its a major pain.

On rare occasions I get that, but only when jumping forward and back
rather quickly.  I've gotten it in xvid avi files as well.  I've even
gotten it when playing on a local file system as a matter of fact...so
I think it's just something xine doesn't handle well with jumping
forward and back.  You can add this to the ~/.xine/config file:

gui.dropped_frames_warning:0

That prompt you're getting actually has a checkbox for not showing the
warning again, which would automatically set that for you, but it may
off the screen when you're getting it.

My big gripe about jumping in xine is that it doesn't seem to be
capable of jumping back from one dvd chapter to a previous
one...really annoying.

Tom


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