[mythtv] still unreliable channel tuning with DVB-T after live TV changes

[Daniel Kristjansson]

On Sun, 2005-12-04 at 15:16 +0100, Tino Keitel wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 03, 2005 at 11:55:41 +0100, Tino Keitel wrote:
> > 2005-12-03 11:40:57.832 AFD: Opened codec 0x8a3f010, id(MPEG2VIDEO) type(Video)
> > 2005-12-03 11:40:58.014 AFD: Initializing video at 768x576 pixels.
> > 2005-12-03 11:40:58.534 Prebuffer wait timed out 10 times.
> > 2005-12-03 11:40:59.456 Prebuffer wait timed out 10 times.
> > 2005-12-03 11:41:00.381 Prebuffer wait timed out 10 times.
> > It will hang now, pressing escape doesn't work. I have to restart the
> > frontend. After this, tuning to the same channel ususally works.
This is a known problem, I'm looking at it. From what I can tell it
looks like the decoder thread is getting stuck in
AvFormatDecoder::GetFrame(). It appears pretty random when just using
LiveTV in browse mode, but happens much more often when using the EPG
in LiveTV to change channels.

-- Daniel