[mythtv-users] Skipping sound with some News Feed podcasts under .26

Ian Evans dheianevans at gmail.com
Sat Nov 10 23:24:45 UTC 2012


On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 5:46 PM, Nick Rout <nick.rout at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Nov 11, 2012 11:32 AM, "Ian Evans" <dheianevans at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, Nov 9, 2012 at 11:05 PM, Ian Evans <dheianevans at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > I mentioned this back when I had some HDMI problems, but since
>> > everything else is fine, I thought I'd start a new thread.
>> >
>> > I've checked out a few podcasts and one I occasionally listen to, Adam
>> > Carolla's, doesn't play properly through Myth .26's Information
>> > Center->News Feeds
>> >
>> > The other podcasts I've tried sound fine, but this one sounds like
>> > it's skipping forward...that quick scanning sound of bits and pieces
>> > of voice/music that you get when you fast forward on some mp3 players.
>> >
>> > I was able to listen to this just fine under Myth .25 and Ubuntu 10.x
>> > but since moving to 12.04 and .26 this one podcast has become
>> > unlistenable.
>> >
>> > Any ideas? The rss feed for the podcast is here:
>> > http://theadamcarollashow.libsyn.com/rss
>>
>> An update: I tail -f the mythfrontend.log and try the podcast again.
>>
>> It tossed up a ton of lines like:
>>
>> mythfrontend[30394]: N CoreContext mythplayer.cpp:2095
>> (PrebufferEnoughFrames) Player(h): Waited 19271ms for video buffers
>> AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAf
>>
>> I let the audio run for a bit and then finally the error "Video frame
>> buffering failed too many times" came up on screen.
>>
>> Just curious: why is it complaining about video buffers when it's an
>> audio podcast?
>
> What does mediainfo tell you about the downloaded podcast file.

Where does myth store them? Or did you mean to download it manually
and then check it with mediainfo?


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