[mythtv-users] Re:prebuffering pauses and mythtv 0.13

[Thomas Fjellstrom]

On December 16, 2003 03:36 pm, Thomas Fjellstrom wrote:
> On December 16, 2003 03:27 pm, Greg wrote:
> > Hey, I've been having your pre-buffer and and my sound would would get
> > all distorted.  Someone else posted a fix maybe a week ago.  It was
> > using old alsa drivers.  I used alsa-driver-0.9.4 and all my audio
> > problems are gone(thank god!!).  It was a pain because I used apt rpms
> > to install and it installed alsa packages.  I notice that alot of the
> > packages are dependent on alsa, so now every time I update it always
> > wants to re-download all the alsa stuff.  So I manually removed all alsa
> > packages, downloaded the old alsa drivers, had to edit alot of files to
> > get it to compile, and then it all worked.
> >
> > Just so you know, my computer is...
> > Biostar MB - with on-board via-8233 sound
> > WinTV-401 dbx
> > Fedora Core 1 -- atrpm kenrnel 2.4.22....24
> > and i don't think the other stuff is important.
> >
> > Another note is my sound would mess up within about 5 minutes, some
> > channels not as bad.  Comedy Central would mess up almost instantly.  I
> > messed with color/brightness and it helped, but did not fix.  Now, I've
> > left it on live TV for whole day on Comedy Central and not a single
> > problem.
>
> Ok, I suppose downgrading ALSA couldn't hurt. Thnakfully, its not something
> that will take too long. :)

Downgraded ALSA, I no longer have the audio and video problems, but I still 
get the prebuffering messages.

> > Hope this helps,
> > Greg Long
>
> Me too ;)

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