[mythtv-users] prebuffering pause with lirc

[Dean Schilling]

I just did a little more digging into the problem.

When mythfrontend is playing a pre-recorded show, the idle CPU is 20 - 
31%.  After I load lircd, the idle CPU drops to 0%.  This is why I'm 
getting the prebuffering pause.

My question is, why does lircd chew up so much CPU bandwidth?  I've 
eliminated the irxevent, but I'm still getting the problem.  I know a 
500MHz PIII isn't that fast, but that's ridicules.

Any suggestions or troubleshooting hints would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Dean

Dean Schilling wrote:

>I've had a nice, stable working mythtv setup for about a year.  So now 
>it's time to screw that up.
>
>I wanted to add LIRC with a media center IR receiver.  I followed the 
>instructions, and got everything working.  It even works with Myth.
>
>The problem is, when irxevent is running, watching recordings or live tv 
>cauese a prebuffering pause about once per second.
>
>If I kill irxevent, the pausing goes away.
>
>I'm using 0.18.1 Mythtv I've installed as a package on a Debian system.  
>Kernel is 2.6.10.
>
>Any help would be appreciated.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Dean
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