While I don't know much about how myth works internally as I've only been 
using it for about 6 weeks, I can offer the following observations on this 
problem;

1. These Prebuffering pause loops occur for me on both live TV and while 
watching recordings.

2. I can often break the loops by pausing (sometimes on and off a couple of 
times)  or skipping forward or back. Pausing seems to enable and disable 
DPMS.  I tried disabling DPMS in X but this had no noticable affect. So.///

3.  Playing with the ring buffer size (making it larger) seems to make it 
easier for me to break out of the loops when they occur. using 2.

4. once, after playing with the pause technique, the output changed to "bad 
stream"  Exiting what I was watching and immediatly re-entering (without 
restarting myth) brought the stream back.  FYI: I sometimes get the bad 
stream stuff when changing channels as well same exit and re-enter works 
there to.

For whatever its worth,...

-Blair

On Monday 14 February 2005 20:50, Blammo wrote:
> I'm going to start a new thread, since this isn't JUST an XvMC
> problem, at least in my case..
>
> On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 20:37:16 -0700, Blammo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Ok, couple of things:
> >
> > 1. The XvMC lockups, at least on my machine, seem to happen with the
> > fading of the OSD. 100% of the time.
> >
> > 2. I'm getting lockups from the "prebuffering" even with XvMC off... :(
> >
> > I'm going to try the audio patch suggested in another thread, and see
> > what happens.

-- 
-Blair Preston
Principle Systems Architect

"The best way to predict the future, is to invent it"
-Alan Kay 
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