The right mix of hardware is an nvidia or sis video chipset and a CPU too slow to keep up without it.
Very seriously, if you don't really need XvMC, it's almost certainly more trouble than it's worth at the moment.
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| Author: | cdamusic [ Fri May 06, 2005 5:30 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Playback won't restart after pause |
Hi, I have a problem where both live TV and watching a recording won't restart after pausing. The sequence of events is this: - Start "Watch TV" or a recording. - Let run for either a few seconds or a minute and skip back. - Pause. OK. - Press the P key again to un-pause. Picture may advance a frame or two but is frozen. The OSD says Play. - Press the P key again. Picture may advance a frame or two but is frozen (as it should be). The OSD says Pause. - Press the P key again. Picture does not advance. The OSD very quickly flashes Play but goes back to Pause. Sometimes the Pause appears not to change, probably because the Play flickers too fast to see. - The last action is now repeatable. - Pressing the Esc key usually exits after a time. Sometimes I have to kill the frontend. Now there are two variations on this. The first variation is this: - Start "Watch TV" - Let run for either a few seconds or a minute. - Pause. OK. - Press a Left or Right arrow key to skip forward or back. OSD reports Rewind or Forward as appropriate. Picture is still frozen (as it should be I think?). - Press P to un-pause. Playing resumes as it should. The other variation is that if I somehow occupy /dev/dsp so that I'm asked if I want to "Continue without Audio" and accept that then pause/unpause works as it should (minus the sound of course). Looking through back-posts I saw that around Xmas 2003 and early 2004 there was a similar problem many were experiencing. An aid in diagnosing then was to leave live TV running for a while and skip back half-a-minute or so before pausing and for many people the problem went away. So, in my testing I tried that but without effect. In all this fooling around I've managed to crash the frontend a couple of times but the backend has soldiered on without problem. Here's my setup: 2.4 GHz P4 PVR-250 nVidia GeForce4 MX 440 KnoppMyth R5 Alpha 12 Frontend and backend on the same machine. I've solved some other quirks (wrong tuner type being forced, for instance) but this one has left me stumped. Chris D |
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| Author: | ceenvee703 [ Fri May 06, 2005 5:43 pm ] |
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Not sure, but it sounds like you have XvMC enabled in your playback preferences. If so, turn it off and hopefully your freezes will go away. |
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| Author: | cdamusic [ Sat May 07, 2005 7:33 am ] |
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Exactly right. That did the trick. Many thanks. javascript:emoticon(':D') According to KnoppMythInstall I have the correct mix of hardware, i.e. PVR-250 and nVidia, that I should select xvmc (although with a 2.4 GHz P4 maybe it isn't necessary). Should KnoppMythInstall be amended to reflect that? |
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| Author: | tjc [ Sun May 08, 2005 11:35 am ] |
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The right mix of hardware is an nvidia or sis video chipset and a CPU too slow to keep up without it. Very seriously, if you don't really need XvMC, it's almost certainly more trouble than it's worth at the moment.
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