[mythtv-users] Waiting for video buffers

[Thomas Börkel]

HI!

On 19.03.2013 23:38, Jim Stichnoth wrote:

> I believe that this generally means that something has delayed the
> decoder thread from adding video frames to the set of video buffers, and
> now the player needs to wait for frames to show up.  Frames may be
> decoded out of order, and this video buffer mechanism allows for the
> reordering.  It could be that something is preventing the backend from
> delivering data in time, for example playing live TV or an in-progress
> recording too close to real-time, or an OS scheduling issue on the
> backend.  Or something on the frontend is preventing the decoder thread
> from running or receiving data from the backend.  It's hard to know for
> sure without a lot deeper analysis.

I see nothing in syslog of the frontend and backend and nothing in
mythbackend log at that time.

Thomas