Hi Like a lot of other people I have the prebuffer pauses during playback of my recordings on my frontend. The stuttering happens every 3-5 seconds. So I have printouts like these:
. 2005-07-02 23:06:25.654 A/V diverged by -3.39277 frames, dropping frame to keep audio in sync 2005-07-02 23:06:25.654 A/V diverged by -3.0241 frames, dropping frame to keep audio in sync 2005-07-02 23:06:25.793 prebuffering pause 2005-07-02 23:06:25.794 waiting for prebuffer... 2005-07-02 23:06:25.928 prebuffer wait timed out.. . . The funny thing is that the stuttering only starts AFTER I rewind or fast forward. I start playing a recording without touching the remote, and it plays fine. But as soon as I hit fast forward and the recording starts playing again the stuttering starts. On additional strange thing is that if, while the stuttering is going on, I use Alt-TAB to change to a terminal to check for example what 'top' prints out and then switch back, the stuttering dissapears?!? Really odd, and not a good workaround. I've read a bunch of posts in the email list and I have pretty much tried every on/off combination of settings that people have suggested: extra audio buffer, interlace, libmpeg2, enable realtime, video as timebase, enable openGL as vertical, hardware XvMC decode, seek to exact frame, etc, etc. Running mythfrontend as root changes nothing. CPU usage during playback is less than 50%. I also took my bitrate down from like 5000 to 2800, no help. Played with audio quality to see if that helped, no dice. I have an Asus Pundit-R with a Celeron 2.4 Ghz. I have an external SOundblaster USB live card(I've also tried with the onboard one, same issue) , and I even put in a Nvidia MX4 PCI card since the onboard ATI video card is for shit( or rather, the driver is). I have a 100Mbits connection between my Pundit frontent and the mythtv server, so it isn't the network. I run Fedora Core 3, all latest updates. kernel 2.6.11-1.27_FC3. Playback on the backend server is fine, no stuttering. Does anyone have any ideas what I can try next? thanks, Henrik Bentel _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
