[mythtv-users] AV-Sync problem

David Wong david.wong at marvel.com.hk
Thu Apr 16 06:23:57 UTC 2009


----- "R. G. Newbury" <newbury at mandamus.org> wrote:
> David Wong wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "greg" <greg12866 at nycap.rr.com>
> > To: "Discussion about mythtv" <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
> > Sent: Wednesday, April 15, 2009 3:09:11 AM (GMT+0800)
> Asia/Hong_Kong
> > Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] AV-Sync problem
> > 
> > David Wong wrote:
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> I am running 0.21 branch with VDPAU patch #r20300, on NVidia 9400
> IGP with Intel Q2D E7400 2.8GHz.
> >>
> >> When I play some of DTV channel in my living place, I got lots of
> following warnings:
> >>
> >> "Audio 686 ms behind video but already 75 video frames queued.
> AV-Sync might be broken. "
> >>
> >> and some audio buffer underrun error, both video and audio are not
> smooth.
> >> Video output resolution is not important too.
> >>
> >> It only happens in 2 SD H.264 channels from same broadcaster here.
> >>
> >> It looks like that audio packet, in form of libavformat packet?, is
> very lag behind video.
> >> It is not very surprising as the two channels are rather low bit
> rate. Broadcaster makes very extreme
> >>  configuration to accommodate 1 HD and 3 SD channels in a 21Mbps
> carrier.
> >>
> >> I check into the code. It seems the playback engine only checks
> enough video when pre-buffering,
> >>  and left audio buffer unchecked. Is my observation valid? Are
> there anyway to both ensure enough
> >>  video and audio before playback?
> >>
> >> Or anyway to buffer more data? I think it is better to be measured
> in time rather than in data size.
> >>
> 
> >>   
> > I used to have this problem until i removed pulseaudio... Try
> removing 
> > it and see if that resolves your problem..
> 
> > 
> > I tried "sudo /etc/init.d/pulseaudio stop" in my Mythbuntu 8.10.
> > Unfortunately, it doesn't help.
> > Thanks anyway.
> > 
> > David
> 
> 
> Try 'apt-get remove  alsa-plugins-pulseaudio' and reboot
> 
> 
> alsa-plugins-pulseaudio io the name of the package in Fedora, and it's
> 
> likely the same in Ubuntu.
> 
> Geoff
> 
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seems no such package in (myth/u)buntu 8.10

david at david-desktop:~$ dpkg -l *pulse*
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Cfg-files/Unpacked/Failed-cfg/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name                                   Version                                Description
+++-======================================-======================================-============================================================================================
ii  gstreamer0.10-pulseaudio               0.10.10.4-1ubuntu1.1                   GStreamer plugin for PulseAudio
un  libao-pulse                            <none>                                 (no description available)
ii  libpulse-browse0                       0.9.10-2ubuntu9.3                      PulseAudio client libraries (zeroconf support)
ii  libpulse0                              0.9.10-2ubuntu9.3                      PulseAudio client libraries
ii  libpulsecore5                          0.9.10-2ubuntu9.3                      PulseAudio sound server core
un  libsdl1.2debian-pulseaudio             <none>                                 (no description available)
ii  pulseaudio                             0.9.10-2ubuntu9.3                      PulseAudio sound server
ii  pulseaudio-esound-compat               0.9.10-2ubuntu9.3                      PulseAudio ESD compatibility layer
ii  pulseaudio-module-gconf                0.9.10-2ubuntu9.3                      GConf module for PulseAudio sound server
ii  pulseaudio-module-hal                  0.9.10-2ubuntu9.3                      HAL device detection module for PulseAudio sound server
un  pulseaudio-module-jack                 <none>                                 (no description available)
un  pulseaudio-module-lirc                 <none>                                 (no description available)
ii  pulseaudio-module-x11                  0.9.10-2ubuntu9.3                      X11 module for PulseAudio sound server
un  pulseaudio-module-zeroconf             <none>                                 (no description available)
ii  pulseaudio-utils                       0.9.10-2ubuntu9.3                      Command line tools for the PulseAudio sound server
david at david-desktop:~$ dpkg -l *alsa*
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Cfg-files/Unpacked/Failed-cfg/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name                                   Version                                Description
+++-======================================-======================================-============================================================================================
un  alsa                                   <none>                                 (no description available)
ii  alsa-base                              1.0.17.dfsg-2ubuntu1                   ALSA driver configuration files
un  alsa-headers                           <none>                                 (no description available)
un  alsa-oss                               <none>                                 (no description available)
ii  alsa-utils                             1.0.17-0ubuntu3                        ALSA utilities
ii  bluez-alsa                             4.12-0ubuntu5                          Bluetooth audio support
ii  gstreamer0.10-alsa                     0.10.21-3ubuntu0.1                     GStreamer plugin for ALSA
un  libarts-alsa                           <none>                                 (no description available)
ii  libesd-alsa0                           0.2.40-0ubuntu1                        Enlightened Sound Daemon (ALSA) - Shared libraries
ii  libpt-1.10.10-plugins-alsa             1.10.10-2ubuntu3                       Portable Windows Library Audio Plugin for the ALSA Interface
un  libpt-plugins-alsa                     <none>                                 (no description available)
ii  libsdl1.2debian-alsa                   1.2.13-2ubuntu1                        Simple DirectMedia Layer (with X11 and ALSA options)
ii  libsox-fmt-alsa                        14.0.1-2build2                         SoX alsa format I/O library
un  libwine-alsa                           <none>                                 (no description available)
un  vlc-plugin-alsa                        <none>                                 (no description available)




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