[mythtv-users] Waiting for video buffers

[Joe Henley]

> In my case, I can't reproduce the video buffer issue when watching the
> same position of the same recording again.
>
> Was that the same in your case? 
Thomas,

Usually yes. 

For my testing what I did was to record something with nothing else was 
going on with the server.  Then I'd check the log for buffer messages.  
If there were messages, I'd throw that recording out and try again (with 
Time Warner, the bad signals seem to be concentrated on a few channels) 
with a different channel.  Once I got a recording which didn't have 
messages during recording, I'd play it back without doing anything with 
either the BE or FE (other than selecting play on the FE menu).  If the 
playback logs were clean, then I knew I had a clean capture/recording.  
It took awhile but I finally got one recording each in SD and HD, which 
I believe to be clean of "buffer message" causing errors.  Those I used 
for testing playback.

What you describe indicates the problem is in playback; if it were in 
the capture/recording it "should" be repeatable during playback.  Are 
you using fast forward/rewind when the messages occur?  I found almost 
all of the messages in my log file were when I was FF'ing or RW'ing 
around commercials (wife hates Myth commercial skip function). 

Also, what deinterlacer are you using.  Try stepping down a step in 
capability (reduce the load) or remove it altogether and see what happens.

Good luck, let us know how it goes....

Joe