[email protected] wrote: > ...after a random period of time > of use (can be a half hour, can be a few hours, but more the former > than the latter), I get stuttering of the video/audio. > > When I look at the on screen display the demux info shows that the > video (and audio) buffer is empty. If I pause the mvpmc, the buffer > fills back up and it works for a few seconds, and then back to stuttering. > > Most of the time a complete power down of the device and reboot > appears to fix it at least for a while. > > Any ideas? Heat, buffering, and memory leaks are all I can think of.
It's the mvpmc running out of memory, due to memory leaks and inefficiencies in how the program data is stored. (See discussion on the dev list.) You can work around the problem by pruning your show database in MythTV. For example, if there's stuff you're archiving, export it with nuvexport, and then delete it in MythTV. Or just get used to having to do a warn restart periodically. I think you'll find that doing a full reboot is not necessary. I used to see this symptom quite regularly, but since two things happened, I run out of memory so often that I pretty much need to do a warn restart after viewing any video. (One of the things that happened is that I had to downgrade mvpmc to a version prior to the JIT audio changes, because it messed up sync for me (as documented in an earlier posting), and the older version has more memory problems. The other thing is that I expanded my MythTV storage, so my program database is even bigger.) -Tom ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H _______________________________________________ Mvpmc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mvpmc-users mvpmc wiki: http://mvpmc.wikispaces.com/
