[mythtv] Audio stutter on black screens

[Mark Spieth]

> On Thursday 15 Dec 2005 23:10, Stuart Auchterlonie wrote:
> > Hmmm, thinking out loud here, but it's almost like the data rate
> > drops too low for the decoder at this point. Would make sense since
> > a pure black screen would have a very low data rate compared to a
> > much more colourful screen.
>
> I think you may be onto something here. The channels I have had most
problems
> with in recent days also happens to have the lowest average bitrates.
>
> See http://varied.myby.co.uk/dtt/
> (e.g. More4)
>
> Now that alone wasn't a problem before but combined with a recent change,
> maybe it was enough to highlight the problem for me?
>
> For example the cause of my other major problem which also affected the
lower
> bitrate channels was Mark Spieth's patch commited in [8244] and a
partially
> reverted in [8265], [8267].

Is your original problem solved now due to my original patch?
a bit more testing by me showed the same problem (not that black screen one)
which was fixed by the utils.c reversion. sorry about that.

mark