On Wed, July 8, 2009 9:04 am, Bernard Mentink wrote: > Hi All, > > I now have two DVB cards in my Freevo box and all in all it works well. > > My only issue with TV quality at the moment is that after 10..20 minutes > of > playing, I get bursts of blocky'ness and audio clicks, > then eventually micro pauses. Going back to the menu and re-playing stops > the problems until another 10..20 minutes. > (I don't have any errors from the card ..)
Sounds like an issue with the ability of livepause to write to the harddrive. The micro-pauses are an attempt by livepause to let the stream from the harddrive settle down, as it sounds like the feed to mplayer is being starved of data. Are you doing anything else at the same time? Are there any other processes running? > I have played with -cache settings for mplayer, but although there was > some > improvement, I can't get rid of it entirely. > > Does anyone know where the bottleneck is? Is it mplayer not keeping up or > is > it a livepause issue. > > I would like to know if anyone else has struck this issue, and if so, what > they did to improve it. > > (I am only playing DVB-S at present .. it is not the card, as two > different > brands of cards/chipsets do the same thing) > Cheers Adam ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge This is your chance to win up to $100,000 in prizes! For a limited time, vendors submitting new applications to BlackBerry App World(TM) will have the opportunity to enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge. See full prize details at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/Challenge _______________________________________________ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
