[mythtv] 0.17 - mythfrontend freezing at end of recordings

Risto Treksler risto at elkhornbanff.ca
Sun Feb 13 14:27:32 UTC 2005


Hi

I recently upgraded to 0.17 from 0.16

the frontend freezes for a few seconds at the end of each recording, just 
before it returns to the list of recordings

ususally it prints 
"Waited 2 seconds for data to become available, waiting again..." 
into the terminal

when a recording has a long commercial at the end
when it gets to the last commercial instead of going back to the menu,
like 0.16 did, 
-the video freezes
-the hard drive light goes crazy, as if it is seeking to the end of the file.
-once the hdd light goes off it goes back to the menu
This sometimes takes 20-30 seconds, and the video is frozen at this time
nothing is printed in the logs until it gets to the end and then 
"Waited 2 seconds for data to become available, waiting again..." 
is printed once or twice before it exits to the list of recordings

this is bad enough but here's the real bug that is affecting me:

if i press "esc" or "pause" while the video is frozen
then the frontend hangs and needs to be killed
the terminal is full of
2005-02-13 06:17:33.323 Waited too long for decoder to pause
2005-02-13 06:17:34.333 Waited too long for decoder to pause
2005-02-13 06:17:35.344 Waited too long for decoder to pause
2005-02-13 06:17:36.353 Waited too long for decoder to pause
2005-02-13 06:17:37.363 Waited too long for decoder to pause

if i press some other buttons like "9"
the frontend segfaults


I was thinking that this would normally not be a problem
since in 0.16 the video did not use to freeze like this for
anywhere from 2-30 seconds at the end of a recording
so there was no opportunity to hit any buttons

Any idea why the video is freezing like this
and why the frontend hangs or crashes when a button is pressed during one of 
those freezes?

ps
I'll post a backtrace as soon as i recompile with debugging symbols

pps
I run Mandrake 10.0 with  a 2.4.25 kernel , OSS sound, two PVR250 cards
commercials are set to autoskip 
i have tried both the new libmpeg2 qand theold way of playback
manually exiting out of the recording works fine

-manually created cutlists only freeze for a few seconds at the end
 instead  of 20 seconds or so

-this happens with shows that were recorded and commercial flagged with 0.16 
as well, so it's strictly a playback issue


-- 
Risto Treksler
Elkhorn Lodge
Banff, Alberta, Canada


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