On Sat, 2006-11-11 at 18:15 +0100, Ulf Elsner wrote:
Am Samstag, 11. November 2006 17:43 schrieb Simon Baxter:
Hi.
Hello,
I'm having intermittant problems when replaying vdr recordings with xineliboutput. Every few minutes I get an audio/video slip/break and stdout reports:
video_out: throwing away image with pts 124350653 because it's too old (diff
: 29229)
Is this a xinelib message? I'm running a xine-lib taken from cvs on the 4th of June 2006
It is xine-lib message, for sure. Basically, with xineliboutput it indicaters your A/V sync is out of order... ? or you are really out of CPU power. In normal situations Y should never see this msg (unless for "frame sync", when switching channels etc. when switching channels etc. What kind of system you are using ? Does this msg appear only when switching channels or starting replay ? If yes, pse, post me (private mail ?) your complete logs + audio and video config with (maybe even complete system cfg).
Yes, it is. This normally indicates that your system ist too slow for replaying videos. It can be a misconfiguring of the used software, or too many task running simultaneously or thelike.
That's right.
Typically running vdr nd vdr-sxfe iun same machine takes up to twice the CPU load compared to separate systems.
PII 400 is just enough to decode + display mpeg2, but if Y have vdr running in same machine you should double each one.
I'm using vdr-xine for displaying and don't know about xineliboutput, so maybe someone else can give you hints how to optimize it.
Maybe it helps: I noticed a higher cpu-usage when replaying with vdr via vdr-xine as if replaying the files with xine directly. This was improved with newer versions of vdr-xine - now I use a faster CPU, so it doesn't matter anymore.
I hope my answer helps you.
bye,
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