Opened 18 years ago
Closed 18 years ago
#1226 closed defect (wontfix)
Playback / seeking broken on OS X frontend
| Reported by: | Owned by: | Nigel | |
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| Priority: | minor | Milestone: | unknown |
| Component: | mythtv | Version: | head |
| Severity: | medium | Keywords: | mac seeking playback OSX |
| Cc: | Ticket locked: | no |
Description
Running 8873 on a linux combined fe/be and on an OS X frontend. On OS X (mac mini) playback of recorded video frequently pauses with "Waiting for prebuffer.." and sometimes stops entirely - lots of waiting for prebuffer followed by RingBuffer::safe_read() failing. CPU utilisation while all this is taking place is ~40%. See stops.log.
In addition, jumping forwards in the stream takes an eternity. The main (linux) box skips forward in the same file without problem. See seek.log (contains 2 seeks, both took ages).
As an aside, it seems that if you set overscan / offset options for playback that cause the overscanned dimensions to exceed that of your display resolution, cpu utilisation shoots up to ~95%. I assume this is a bug?
Attachments (2)
Change History (7)
comment:1 Changed 18 years ago by
| Keywords: | mac added; ac removed |
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Changed 18 years ago by
log of pauses and eventual unexpected stop with -v playback
comment:2 Changed 18 years ago by
| Milestone: | → unknown |
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| Owner: | changed from Isaac Richards to Nigel |
| Reporter: | changed from foobum@… to foobum@… |
comment:3 Changed 18 years ago by
| Resolution: | → invalid |
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| Status: | new → closed |
The playback problem turned out to be caused by the NIC driver on the backend - disabling the apic seems to have fixed it. A bit of debugging revealed that the seeking issue was because the timezone was set incorrectly on the Mac - the SQL query to populate the PosMap? was requesting a starttime 8 hours earlier than it should have. Seems a bit strange that recstartts is adjusted for timezone rather than just copied from the filename, which would always be correct but hey..
comment:4 Changed 18 years ago by
| Resolution: | invalid |
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| Status: | closed → reopened |
Sorry to reopen a closed ticket, but I also see this for speeds > 3x on my mac frontend and my timezone is correct.
comment:5 Changed 18 years ago by
| Resolution: | → wontfix |
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| Status: | reopened → closed |
Waiting for prebuffer basically means that either the network or the Mac can't get the data fast enough. On my Mac (1.3GHz G4), pressing U once (i.e. going from 1x to 2x) means my CPU goes from 90% to over 100%, and the console starts filling up with prebuffer messages. Unless you have a much faster Mac than me, or you are watching postage-stamp sized video, this is to be expected.
typo in keywords