[mythtv] Fwd: Playback sometimes freezes on jump or FF / stream
time position problem
Frank Riley
fhriley at yahoo.com
Thu Mar 31 02:02:41 UTC 2005
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Louie Ilievski wrote:
> I'm running CVS as of Sunday, 3/26, and have noticed an issue with playback
> of recordings. The problem is somewhat random, and happens mostly when I
> skip commercials. When hit the skip button, it jumps to the skip point, but
> often freezes. I can sometimes remedy the problem by pausing and then
> unpausing it, but other times, the frontend becomes unresponsive. It
> restarts just fine and all is well again. Nothing out of the ordinary is
> showing up in the logs when I do --verbose all or --verbose playback, and
> the backend log is not showing anything either. I am running on an Intel
> board with a PVR-350, using the 350's TV-Out framebuffer and decoder. There
> are no DMA errors or anything whatsoever in my dmesg from ivtv, just the
> normal decoder set messages from saa7115. I've been having problems
> re-creating this issue in FW/REW, but I remember it happening at least once
> the other day when I was fast forwarding, so this is why I'm mentioning it
> here. I can re-create it every time by jumping, however.
>
> One more issue I'd like to bring up is the stream position timestamp. When
> FFing in 3x mode, the time still increments at 1x only, as if it were playing
> in normal play mode. In 3x RW, it works properly. In 5x or more, it works
> fine with both FF/REW
>
> Here are some basic specs, but I will supply anything more if needed.
>
> Celeron 1.3 on Intel mobo
> PVR-350, using framebuffer and decoder for playback
>
> MythTV CVS 3/26/05
> Gentoo Linux, 2.6.11-gentoo-r4 kernel
I had this same problem when I was using anything above a 2.6.8.1 kernel.
I've gone back to the 2.6.8.1 kernel and haven't seen the problem since. I'm
using vanilla-sources-2.6.8.1.
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