[mythtv-users] h264 "Prebuffering" pauses (Non XvMC, Non NFS)
Kingsley Turner
krt at krt.com.au
Sat Aug 30 09:02:24 UTC 2008
Hi,
I'm getting "pre-buffering" pauses playing live-tv. I know this because
it's in the mythfrontend logfile.
What does this actually mean? What's it waiting on? Reading from the
tv-card?
BBC HD works ok, but Swiss HD has 1/2 second pauses every few seconds
when there's high motion displayed (I assume the greatest bitrate),
The video signal is a 1280x720 50Hz h264 stream, running at around
10kbit (or is this mbit?) according to VLC.
I can playback the recorded HD stream OK though, it's only live TV that
stutters.
I disabled all non-used devices in the BIOS.
I turned off OpenGL synch
I set both RTC and HPET to 1024 in /etc/sysctl.conf
This is a dual-core (10 week old) core2-duo (E7200 at 2.53GHz) with 2G ram,
SATA2 disk. CPU use during playback is around 80-105% So it's using
about 1/2 it's processing power.
The video-playback configuration is set to use "linear-blend'
deinterlacer, with a fallback of "none".
It drawing to an onboard nvidia 7100, but i just tried a separate
pci-x-16 8600GT with absolutely no change in symptoms.
Does commercial flagging run during live TV? Or is this only
post-processing for recorded shows?
Would throwing more hardware at this help?
1066MHz ram instead of 800?
Quad core CPU ?
Although it doesn't seem to be CPU bound ... but before the tuning CPU
was getting up to 180% (i.e.: almost maxing out both cores)
any hints ?
cheers,
-kt
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