[mythtv-users] what does /buffers DDAAAAAAADAAAA et al/ mean?

[Jim Stichnoth]

On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 8:08 PM, Evuraan <evuraan at gmail.com> wrote:
> Does the last field mean anything ?
>
> 2012-06-12 18:59:26.576987 N  Player(2): Waited 205ms for video
> buffers AAAAAAAAAAAAAA
> 2012-06-12 18:59:27.860222 N  Player(2): Waited 104ms for video
> buffers AAAAAAAAAAAAAA
> 2012-06-12 19:34:43.859614 N  Player(3): Waited 104ms for video
> buffers AAAAAAAAAAADDD
> 2012-06-12 19:34:45.078640 N  Player(3): Waited 101ms for video
> buffers AAAAAAADAAADDA
> 2012-06-12 19:34:46.242639 N  Player(3): Waited 104ms for video
> buffers AAAAAAAAAAAAAA
> 2012-06-12 19:34:46.344642 N  Player(3): Waited 206ms for video
> buffers AAAAAAAAAAAAAA
> 2012-06-12 19:37:29.626656 N  Player(5): Waited 107ms for video
> buffers AAAAAAAAAAADDD
> 2012-06-12 19:37:29.727892 N  Player(5): Waited 208ms for video
> buffers AAAAAAAAAAADDD
> 2012-06-12 19:37:29.828364 N  Player(5): Waited 309ms for video
> buffers AAAAAAAAAAADDD
> 2012-06-12 19:37:29.931076 N  Player(5): Waited 411ms for video
> buffers AAAAAAAAAAADDD
> 2012-06-12 19:37:30.156585 N  Player(5): Waited 104ms for video
> buffers fLAAAAAAAAAAAA
> 2012-06-12 19:37:32.827973 N  Player(5): Waited 103ms for video
> buffers DDAAAAAAAAAAAD
> 2012-06-12 19:37:32.929460 N  Player(5): Waited 205ms for video
> buffers DDAAAAAAAAAAAD
> 2012-06-12 19:37:33.047083 N  Player(5): Waited 102ms for video
> buffers AAAfAAAAAALAAA
>
>
> $ grep AA myth-tv.log |tail -20 | awk {'print $NF'} | sort -u
> AAAAAAAAAAAAAA
> AAAAAAAAAAADDD
> AAAAAAADAAADDA
> AAAAAAAfLAAAAA
> AAAfAAAAAALAAA
> AAALAAAAAAAAuA
> ALAAAAAAAAAAff
> DDAAAAAAAAAAAD
> DDAAAAAAAAADAA
> fLAAAAAAAAAAAA

Those strings are created in the method VideoBuffers::GetStatus(int n)
which is defined at about line 800 of
https://github.com/MythTV/mythtv/blob/master/mythtv/libs/libmythtv/videobuffers.cpp
.  I don't really know how to interpret the data.

Jim