On Sun, 2009-09-13 at 20:18 +1200, Bernard Mentink wrote: > Hi All, > > > For some time I have been using dvbstreamer/livepause to watch TV and > I use either VLC or mplayer to watch > the stream. > > > I am having a lot of issues with micro pauses and block playback, > especially after 5 minutes or so from changing channels > (i.e a new livepause buffer) the effect is more noticeable with > mplayer than VLC but still an issue . > > > It seems the pauses co-inside with disk activity.
That makes senses, as livepause is not being able to write/read from the disk faster enough to supply vlc/mplayer. > > Does anyone know what I can do to improve this? I have played around > with livepause buffer sizes and mplayer cache, but to little effect. There are 2 ways round this one expensive, one cheap. Either 1. Buy a faster harddisk (expensive) 2. Stop the other disk activity while you are watching TV. Do you have yum/apt update happening while you are watching TV? Cheers Adam ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Come build with us! The BlackBerry® Developer Conference in SF, CA is the only developer event you need to attend this year. Jumpstart your developing skills, take BlackBerry mobile applications to market and stay ahead of the curve. Join us from November 9-12, 2009. Register now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/devconf _______________________________________________ Freevo-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
