[mythtv-users] Prebuffering Pause on RH9, epia m-10000 and mythtv CVS install

[Torsten Schenkel]

> On Thursday, October 2, 2003, at 08:57 AM, Jason Corless wrote:
> 
> > Bruce Markey wrote:
> >
> >> Try setting your bitrate to 4500 kb/s and max bitrate to 6000 kb/s.
> >> 16000 is the max and is overkill even at 720x480. The pauses are
> >> because all the data isn't getting shuffled around and decoded in
> >> time for the player to continue.
> >
> > This seems to help, but I'm still getting the prebuffering pause 
> > messages even with a bitrate of 2000/2500.
> >
> > It is certainly better than with the higher bitrate but still not 
> > usable.  The pauses show up about every 5 seconds with normal TV, but 
> > they are really bad when the OSD is fading out during channel changes.

Are you sure your HD is using DMA?

Try

hdparm /dev/hdX 

to check this, and

hdparm -d1 /dev/hdX

to set DMA.

Torsten