[Openchrome-users] A warning - mythtv 0.19

[Micah F. Galizia]

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Frank DiPrete wrote:
> I don't often do this - the following is a warning about mythtv version
> 0.19 (release and svn) and xvmc_vld on cle266 and others.

My Epia ME6000 works great with 0.19!

> The backend and ringbuffer streaming code has changed and the result is
> a stutter in playback - in my case every 1 min or so. Very annoying. I
> went about debugging the problem for 3 days and found many posts
> describing the problem and a hundred attempts to work around it.
> 
> All of the posters failed to fix the problem and the attempts to log it
> as a bug were rejected as users being stupid or having bad hardware or a
> bad network.

If you are upset with the mythtv developers, this isn't the place to
express your frustration.

> I just went back to 0.18.2 (nuv file format) and things are smooth
> again.
> 
> I hope this warning may save others 72 hours of fiddling and
> re-compiling.
> 
> If in doubt google on "myth 19 prebuffering pause"
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Micah F. Galizia
mfgalizi at uwo.ca

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