AQ and VQ percentages low

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.

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:
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.

cheers

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

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

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

(2011-10-24 13:25)dushmaniac Wrote:  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?

debug log please

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)