[mythtv] Frontend hangs while watching tv / backend "out of free AUDIO buffers" error

[Joel Feenstra]

Just missed the update as I was typing and hitting send. sorry.

Joel Feenstra

Joel Feenstra wrote:
> I'm getting almost the same thing. Hangs right away when I goto change 
> channels. The osd changes, but the video just freezes. The backend 
> reports a strange error flushing buffer, then after a second it spits 
> out a million "ran out of free AUDIO buffers :-(" messages.
> 
> I don't know if I'm doing it right, but I get this backtrace for the 
> frontend:
> 
> #0  0x40b75be6 in nanosleep () from /lib/i686/libc.so.6
> #1  0x00000000 in ?? ()
> 
> Joel Feenstra
> 
> Jason Tackaberry wrote:
> 
>> On Fri, 2003-04-11 at 19:19, Jason Tackaberry wrote:
>>
>>> After perhaps 5 seconds, the backend begins spewing repeatedly "ran out
>>> of free AUDIO buffers :-("
>>
>>
>>
>> More info (cvs from a few minutes ago):
>>
>> About 50% of the time that I begin watching live tv, it begins showing
>> video and after about 5 seconds of jerky playback and out-of-sync audio,
>> I suddenly hear an awful hissing/scratching noise (loud!) as if someone
>> did cat /dev/urandom >  /dev/dsp.  The frontend says repeatedly "Audio
>> buffer overflow, audio data lost!"
>> If I escape and go back to live tv, it's often fine, although audio
>> might be out of sync for 10 seconds or so, and then it syncs up.  I
>> expect this is related to my original problem.
>>
>> Speaking of the original problem, I had reported that I hit pause and
>> then change the channel to cause the hang.  Pause is a red herring. 
>> Just changing the channel is enough to cause the problem to occur.
>>
>> I reverted back to 0.8 and all of these problems don't appear.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Jason.
>>
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