[mythtv] AC3 passthrough and timestretch problems

[John P Poet]

On Sat, May 3, 2008 at 6:26 PM, John P Poet <jppoet at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, May 3, 2008 at 5:00 PM, Mark Spieth <mark at digivation.com.au> wrote:
>  > >You said it looked like an OSD problem?  I could try running a
>  >  >different theme....
>  >
>  >  I use mythcenterwide and retroosd currently.
>  >
>  >  I cant see how this minimal patch affects things much in the osd.
>  >  is this perhaps on a dualcore which may run 2 threads simultaneously?
>  >  perhaps adding samples whilst things get reconfigured?
>  >  its still strange that the osd thread is affected for soemthing done in
>  >  audio.
>  >  however, the 2 patches are essentially equivalent.
>
>  Intel E8400 3.0GHz dual core.  I doubt the theme makes any difference.
>   I currently use Metallurgy -- I have not tried a different theme yet.

The crashes are somewhat random (anywhere from 10 seconds to 10
minutes), so a mutex issue may be at work here.  Does the kernel
command line argument "smt-enabled=off" work to disable the second
core?  I can try that.

John
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