Hmm, I guess by service, you mean as a daemonized process? , I'm also running it as that. But interestingly, my backend + frontend are on the same machine, are yours on diferent machines thene ? - ciaran
On 10/10/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 > -- - 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
