[mythtvnz] The dreaded 'prebuffering pause'

[Tim Gibson]

I've an old celeron 2.8ghz CPU with little prebuffering going on in  
the background... I'd check your xorg.conf file to make sure composite  
is disabled and usevents is enabled.

Regards
Tim Gibson

On 9/01/2010, at 8:32 PM, John Russell <john at enuffsaid.co.nz> wrote:

> Howdy,
> Can someone give me some pointers on resolving this?
> During live tv viewing I'm getting constant prebuffering pause  
> warnings in the log, with their associated audio and video stutters.
> When watching live tv, mythfrontend is at around 105-110% CPU time  
> according to top. Myth FE and BE are on the one box.
> I've compiled mythtv from source: http://svn.mythtv.org/svn/branches/release-0-22-fixes/ 
>  mythtv-0-22
> and patched with the mythtv_ffmpeg_r20504.diff patch. I can minimise  
> (but not eliminate) stuttering by switching to Alsa:HDMI but then I  
> would prefer to use the 5.1 setup I have. I have tried every option  
> in the audio setup, but still the stuttering persists.
> I can play back DVDs without any (apparent) issues.
> Mobo: Gigabyte GA-EG41MF-US2H (embedded Intel G41 video)
> RAM: 4gb interleaved DDR2 800
> CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo (E7500) 2.93GHz
> USB DVB-T card: AverTV Volar Black HD (afatech AF9015 firmware loaded)
> This is on a minimal install of OpenSuse 11.2 64 (just X and TVWM -  
> no Gnome or KDE installed/running).
> I haven't yet checked to see if XvMC is working/installed yet - I'm  
> googling that now as I have no idea what it is or how it could help.
> Any ideas anyone?
> Thanks
> John
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