[mythtv-users] Problems since 0.11 upgrade - UPDATE

[Mark]

The CPU overload thing doesn't hardly seem plausible.  I recently 
changed my resolution to 544 x 480 as well,
but the shows it's been doing this on were recorded while I was doing 
other things, and I'm running myth on a
AMD 2500+ Barton, which is screaming fast.  My cpu utilization while 
recording in MPG4 544x480 is less
than 50% even while watching another recording simultaneously.  Sure 
would like to get this sorted out, but haven't
had  a chance to do any more research on it.  There's lots of gold at 
gossamer threads, but sometimes it takes
some real digging.  I'll check into the file size changes though.  Maybe 
there's a clue there.

Alan Snyder wrote:

>I have had similar problems, with CVS from about two
>weeks ago.  In my case,
>it's not clear that it's related to how quickly I
>press fast forward; it appears
>to happen on certain recorded programs and not on
>others, and the programs on
>which it occurs have .nuv files that seem short for
>the program duration.
>
>I have an Athlon 1.0 and had always been recording at
>480x480 and everything
>else at defaults.  I noticed that my cpu was only
>typically at 35% when
>recording.  I pushed my resolution up to 544x480 and
>could just barely watch a
>recording in progress (occasionally hit 100%), so I
>backed off to 504x480 - a
>"comfortable" 75% when watching a recording in
>progress.  It was after this
>change that I began seeing the occasional recording in
>which fast forward caused
>the frontend to appear to hang, with rebuffering
>messages at the console.  
>
>I backed off to 480x480 again and things have been OK,
>though it's only been a
>couple of days.  I'm blaming this on my CPU's
>inability to take the occasional
>load due to other things, like my constant checking of
>mythweb, despite the
>backend process priority.  I don't know whether it's
>plausible that CPU overload
>would cause corrupt files rather than "gracefully"
>skipped frames.
>
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>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org
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>[mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org]
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>>On Behalf Of Mark
>>Sent: Sunday, August 17, 2003 2:54 PM
>>To: Discussion about mythtv
>>Subject: [mythtv-users] Problems since 0.11 upgrade
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>- UPDATE
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>>Ok, some more info on this.  I've managed to keep
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>the frontend from
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>>crashing one time,
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>>and got some info from the console that was running
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>the frontend.
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>>Here's some output:
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>>Found 2 Xinerama Screens.
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>>Using first Xinerama screen, 800x600+0+0
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>>Opening OSS audio device '/dev/dsp".
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>>Using XV port 106
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>>Changing from None to WatchingPreRecorded
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>>Video timing method: nVidia polling
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>>Refresh rate: 11745, frame interval: 33366
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>>Audio buffer overflow, audio data lost!
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>>.
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>>.
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>>.
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>>Audio buffer overflow, audio data lost!  ( a pile of
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>times)
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>>rebuffering (119604 128000)
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>>rebuffering (119370 128000)
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>>.
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>>rebuffering (81973 128000)
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>> >> player timout
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>>Changing from WatchingPreRecorded to None
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>>Changing from None to None
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>>Found 2 Xinerama screens
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>>Using first Xinerama screen, 800x600+0+0
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>>At this point, it dumps me back into the recorded
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>shows listing, with
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>>a choice to delete or save the fully watched
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>program.
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>>Any ideas?
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>>Thanks,
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>>Mark
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