[mythtv-users] Playback problem -- random short pauses

[Mark Lord]

On 11-05-23 06:15 PM, Michael T. Dean wrote:
> On 05/23/2011 05:20 PM, Steven Adeff wrote:
>> On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 5:09 PM, jedi wrote:
>>> ...has anyone else suggested to rule out the possibility that the card itself
>>> is overheating and that's part of the issue. I have a frontend in an upstairs
>>> room that is not always temperature controlled that seems to have issues similar
>>> to this. There's a very nice correlation between the GPU temperature and the
>>> occurences of the problem.
>>>
>>>    The problems go away as soon as the room cools down.
>> I did on my parent's systems and they were all well within their
>> temperature range.
> 
> This is a very good point.  Some people have also seen a correlation 
> with cooling--and have seen improvement or have fixed the issue by 
> setting up additional fan(s) to blow across the card.
> 
> Those wanting to investigate can log temperatures during playback with:
> 
> nvidia-settings -q $DISPLAY/GPUCoreTemp

Note that doing this can itself cause playback glitches.
I've seen it quite regularly here, on a 9500GT and a GT240 card.
Removing the "nvidia-settings -q" removes the glitches again.

Cheers