[mythtv-users] Playback problem -- random short pauses

[Steven Adeff]

On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 8:48 AM, Mark Lord <mythtv at rtr.ca> wrote:
> On 11-07-14 11:07 AM, Steven Adeff wrote:
>> On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 9:36 AM, Mark Lord <mythtv at rtr.ca> wrote:
>>> On 11-07-10 01:15 PM, Steven Adeff wrote:
>>>> On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 3:44 PM, Michael Drons <mdrons at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>>>> This original issue should be fixed via this ticket:
>>>>> http://code.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/9815
>>>>> Mike
>>>>
>>>> is this something that can be backported to 0.24-fixes?
>>>>
>>>
>>> The patch itself applies cleanly to 0.24-fixes,
>>> after first renaming "ringbuffer.cpp" to "RingBuffer.cpp" in the patch file.
>>>
>>> Seems to work fine, too!
>>>
>>
>> interesting! does this need to be applied to the backend, frontend or both?
>
>
> Well, the patch is for libmyth, which is used by both the backend
> and the frontend.  But the exact code in question should affect
> only the frontend, during playback.
>
> I never had the "random short pauses" issue here, probably because I
> pay very close attention to my drives configurations, and I also have
> the ringbuffer set to max size.
>
> But what I did have happening, was a short "burp" (pause/stutter) in the first
> two seconds of anything I played back.  Always.
>
> Not any more though.  Nice patch!
>
>> anyone have a good link on how to build my own ubuntu package with
>> applying this patch?
>
> Dunno.  I don't know exactly how to build ubuntu packages.
>
> But this patch really deserves to be backported in the main git repo,
> so let's see if any of the devs are feeling charitable this week.  :)
>

ah so this may not fix the problem attributed to VDPAU. my drives
never go about 10% i/o wait on top and I also have my ringbuffer set
to max and I have the issue.

does this patch help at all with the pauses at recording stop/start times?


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Steve
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