Thanks Nick, I'll look further tonight
On Tue, 28 Jun 2005 00:53:31 +0100 Nick wrote: > On 6/28/05, Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I am having stutter problems with livetv. > > Crawling through the list archives, along with the reference to audio in > > the verbose output, leads me to believe this is an audio issue. However > > i am not sure where to go from here. Options seem to be: > > > > *use alsa instead of the oss/alsa emulation - but I have seen list posts > > that claim the alsa support in myth is crap and to be avoided > > Not true. > > > *find some way of giving the sound driver (or the oss emulation layer) > > more buffering space - how would I do this? > > Options in frontend setup. > > > > > *try the independent alsa drivers instead of what is in the kernel > > Easily doable - download the drivers, lib and utils archives from > alsa-project.org. > > > Any suggestions would be gratefully received. > > Frontend setup allows you to use aggressive soundcard buffering > (general setup) and another audio buffering setting in TV settings. > > You could check whether using ALSA devices (you may have OSS emulation > running, using /dev/dsp and /dev/mixer) makaes things better. > ALSA:default and default are the typical equivalent devices to use. I > don't have any problems with ALSA at all, other than the fact that > mythmusic still uses OSS. > > The one time I have had audio issues was on my Pentium M laptop (over > wireless g), when I had borked the powersave options and throttled the > CPU too low when unplugged. Setting the throttling to a more sensible > level cured all the problems. I had at the time already installed ALSA > 1.0.9b, but another system using 1.0.8 is also fine. > > I'd also look into running the frontend with root privileges to get > better performance and access to real-time threading, which may > improve performance. > > HTH, > Nick > _______________________________________________ > mythtv-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users -- Nick Rout
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