<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jun 20, 2017 at 5:07 PM, Austin Green <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:austin.green@orcon.net.nz" target="_blank">austin.green@orcon.net.nz</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On Tue, 13 Jun 2017 17:18:25 +1200<br>
"Criggie" <<a href="mailto:criggie@criggie.org.nz">criggie@criggie.org.nz</a>> wrote:<br>
> Austin Green wrote:<br>
> > When I hit Play on a selected recording, there is a long delay, usually 10<br>
> > to 20 seconds, before it actually starts to play. Once it a while it<br>
> > starts after only a second or two. Any ideas what could be causing that?<br>
> > OS is Trisquel 7 (Ubuntu 14 derivative) with kernel 3.13. MythTV Version<br>
> > is v0.27-193-g8ee257c.<br>
><br>
</span><span class="">> I'd guess its waiting for something like audio.<br>
> --<br>
> Criggie<br>
<br>
</span>I think you may be on to it there, Criggie. See frontend log extract:<br>
<br>
16:55:55 : I CoreContext tv_play.cpp:2201 (HandleStateChange) TV: Attempting to change from None to WatchingPreRecorded<br>
16:55:55 : E CoreContext audio/audiooutputalsa.cpp:172 (GetPCMInfo) ALSA: snd_pcm_info_get_card: Operation not permitted<br>
16:55:55 : N CoreContext audioplayer.cpp:164 (ReinitAudio) AudioPlayer: Enabling Audio<br>
16:55:55 : I CoreContext avformatdecoder.cpp:1898 (ScanStreams) AFD: codec MP2 has 2 channels<br>
16:55:55 : I CoreContext avformatdecoder.cpp:2378 (OpenAVCodec) AFD: Opened codec 0x38723a0, id(MP2) type(Audio)<br>
16:55:55 : I CoreContext avformatdecoder.cpp:2378 (OpenAVCodec) AFD: Opened codec 0xc935900, id(MPEG2VIDEO) type(Video)<br>
16:55:55 : I CoreContext audio/audiooutputbase.cpp:792 (Reconfigure) AOBase: Opening audio device 'default' ch 2(2) sr 48000 sf 32 bit floating point reenc 0<br>
16:56:20 : I CoreContext signalhandling.cpp:194 (SetHandlerPrivate) Setup Interrupt handler<br>
<br>
There is a 25-second gap in the log after the attempt to open the audio device; the process just seems to be hanging there.<br>
<br>
Any ideas on cause, or suggestions to fix?<br>
<br>
Cheers,<br>
Austin.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Do you have pulseaudio installed?<br></div></div></div></div>