[moontan77]

I'm getting ocassional dropped frames/sound dropouts and it usually coincides with the VQ and AQ percentages going very low.

Watching normal videos, these percentages are very high and I don't have this problem. Is there anything that can be done to fix this?

I'm using the latest binary build.

[opdenkamp]

VQ/AQ values are the buffer levels of the video and audio buffers. 0 means empty queue, which will result in thos drops.

you can change the minimal required buffer level buffer pvr playback starts via as.xml:

Code:

<advancedsettings>
  <pvr>
    <minvideocachelevel>10</minvideocachelevel>
    <minaudiocachelevel>10</minaudiocachelevel>
  </pvr>
</advancedsettings>

this changes the minimum cache level to 10% instead of the default (5%). switching channels and starting playback on a channel will become a bit slower.

[moontan77]

cheers

any reason why they suddenly drop to zero? It even happens with free to air stations.

[opdenkamp]

bad (w)lan connection, busy server, ... pick something

[moontan77]

Don't have this problem with an ipad2, seems like an nvidia ion issue.

[ursli]

VQ/AQ values are the buffer levels of the video and audio buffers. 0 means empty queue, which will result in thos drops.

you can change the minimal required buffer level buffer pvr playback starts via as.xml:

Code:

<advancedsettings>
  <pvr>
    <minvideocachelevel>10</minvideocachelevel>
    <minaudiocachelevel>10</minaudiocachelevel>
  </pvr>
</advancedsettings>

this changes the minimum cache level to 10% instead of the default (5%). switching channels and starting playback on a channel will become a bit slower.

I'm having the same problem but with a twist: Tried your solution and it works fine if I switch to a new channel, it does however reset as soon as I want to switch the audio language on that channel (most of my tv comes in dual language so I change that quite a lot), as soon as the audio channel is switched the buffer goes back to 1-2% on AQ and I'm getting drops every now and then.

Is that a problem with the backend plugin I'm using or the main pvr code?

[opdenkamp]

debug log please

[ursli]

Here you go, actions in the debug log:

- Starting TV Channel
- Audio buffers to 6-7% as forced in advancedsettings
- Switching to 2nd Audio Channel
- Audio Buffer at 1-2%
- Stopping

http://pastebin.com/y3zm6YNK

System

XBMC (11.0 Git:Unknown) (latest stable from pulse-eight)
Platform: Linux (Ubuntu 11.10 - XBMCbuntu, 3.2.0-24-generic i686)