Yep, I have exactly the same problem here. Sound is perfect, but video looks like stop and go traffic. Also have the prebuffering pause messages.
Backend : XP2500, 512MB, DVB Nova-CI-S Frontends : P4 2000, 256MB, ATI M7500 and XP3000+, 768MB, ATI 9600 All machines running under gentoo with 2.6.12/13 kernel I have the feeling, that the effect is less if I do not run mythbackend as a service. I also have the feeling that the backend is more stable in terms of channel changing, if it is not running as service. Fritz -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Auftrag von Ciaran Gesendet: Montag, 10. Oktober 2005 13:20 An: Discussion about mythtv Betreff: [mythtv-users] Current SVN DVB Choppiness Hi, Has anyone else/is anyone else currently experiencing periods of extreme choppiness with the current SVN builds when either watching live-tv or recorded shows ? [It should be noticed that audio is unaffected and continues perfectly, but the video is jerky] Also in the fronted logs, I see 'prebuffering pause', and 'prebuffering pause timed out 10 times' [or words to that effect] If I'm running 'top' in aremote terminal the CPU usage isn't going much beyond 17% and the memory usage is acceptable, I really, really cannot work out why its so choppy for me :( [This isn't a continuous problem, it'll last for maybe 2-3 minutes then go away, then come back in an hours time]. I *think* it must be something the back-end is doing as it also occurs when watching DVDs on the box. I assumed it was running out of CPU time but it doesn't appear that way, *however* the load averages are going remarkably high (~11) when I see this problem, so I assume something somewhere is waiting/sleeping poorly? I'm starting to get frustrated with my inability to track this down :(, combined with the fact that I can't get into 'watch recordings' when running mythfrontend normally (Unknown symbol, blah bla), but it works perfectly under GDB, gah!!! Any ideas, straws to clutch etc ? Cheers :) -- - Ciaran (I now have far too many G-Mail invites available, anyone who wants one, gets one) _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
