[mythtvnz] Long delay when starting playback

[Nick Rout]

On Tue, Jun 20, 2017 at 5:07 PM, Austin Green <austin.green at orcon.net.nz>
wrote:

> On Tue, 13 Jun 2017 17:18:25 +1200
> "Criggie" <criggie at criggie.org.nz> wrote:
> > Austin Green wrote:
> > > When I hit Play on a selected recording, there is a long delay,
> usually 10
> > > to 20 seconds, before it actually starts to play.  Once it a while it
> > > starts after only a second or two.  Any ideas what could be causing
> that?
> > > OS is Trisquel 7 (Ubuntu 14 derivative) with kernel 3.13.  MythTV
> Version
> > > is v0.27-193-g8ee257c.
> >
> > I'd guess its waiting for something like audio.
> > --
> > Criggie
>
> I think you may be on to it there, Criggie.  See frontend log extract:
>
> 16:55:55 : I CoreContext tv_play.cpp:2201 (HandleStateChange) TV:
> Attempting to change from None to WatchingPreRecorded
> 16:55:55 : E CoreContext audio/audiooutputalsa.cpp:172 (GetPCMInfo) ALSA:
> snd_pcm_info_get_card: Operation not permitted
> 16:55:55 : N CoreContext audioplayer.cpp:164 (ReinitAudio) AudioPlayer:
> Enabling Audio
> 16:55:55 : I CoreContext avformatdecoder.cpp:1898 (ScanStreams) AFD: codec
> MP2 has 2 channels
> 16:55:55 : I CoreContext avformatdecoder.cpp:2378 (OpenAVCodec) AFD:
> Opened codec 0x38723a0, id(MP2) type(Audio)
> 16:55:55 : I CoreContext avformatdecoder.cpp:2378 (OpenAVCodec) AFD:
> Opened codec 0xc935900, id(MPEG2VIDEO) type(Video)
> 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
> 16:56:20 : I CoreContext signalhandling.cpp:194 (SetHandlerPrivate) Setup
> Interrupt handler
>
> 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.
>
> Any ideas on cause, or suggestions to fix?
>
> Cheers,
> Austin.
>

Do you have pulseaudio installed?
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