[mythtv] Streaming Prebuffering Pause

Brian Foddy bfoddy at visi.com
Mon Feb 14 04:56:17 UTC 2005


On Sunday 13 February 2005 09:11 pm, Blammo [doh] wrote:
> Still happening here.. Had to shut off XvMC to get it to resolve.
> Never happened under 0.16
>
> On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 01:25:27 -0600, Brian Foddy <bfoddy at visi.com> wrote:
> > On Monday 07 February 2005 07:03 pm, Brian Foddy wrote:
> > > Yesterday I upgraded to the CVS snapshot (about noon central time); a
> > > ivtv driver and kernel upgrade also accompanied this.
> > >
> > > Anyway, when I hit the Pause key while viewing either
> > > live tv or recordings, then on resume the frontend will hang
> > > with infinite streams of Prebuffering Pauses.  The only thing
> > > to do is Control-C the window and restart.  The backend is
> > > not affected  Sometimes, the stream will stop after ~50 and
> > > play will resume, but most of the time its hung.
> > >
> > > The front and backend are both running on a 1400 P3,
> > > plenty of ram, 4x10K scsi disks.  I'm using XvMC.
> > > If I turn off XvMC, the problem seems to go away.
> > > There is no problem fast forward, rewind, etc.
> > > This same machine and
> > > cards ran fine for the last 8 months before the upgrade on
> > > 0.15 and 0.16.  The play is perfect before
> > > hitting the Pause key.
> > >
> > > Brian
> >
> > Following up on this, upgrading to 0.17 today did not solve this
> > problem.  If this is a known problem, sorry for the dupe report.
> >
> > Thanks,

Thanks, I was starting to think it was something I did.


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