[mythtv-users] SVN vdpau and hdpvr playback

[Al McIntosh]

On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 2:00 PM, David Brodbeck <gull at gull.us> wrote:

> Al McIntosh wrote:
>
>> Another note, my myth box is always running 24/7 and when I attempt to
>> play a recording first thing in the morning  or at night after work after
>> the box has been idle for a long period of time the gui appears sluggish and
>> I tend to see the video no, audio yes issue. Or it could be coincidence,
>> thought I would mention it. I emailed you a link directly to your email
>> address with a file that exhibited this behavior.
>>
>
> I wonder if this is caused by swapping?  Linux tends to swap idle
> applications out to disk in favor of using RAM as disk cache.  Do you see
> lots of disk activity on the drive containing your swap partition when this
> happens?
>
>

I have been running myth on this PC for months with out any issue. This
behaviour appeared when I began running SVN, VDPAU and began recording using
hdpvr. If your hunch were correct, I suspect I would have seen this all
along.
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