[mythtv] Frontend locking/freezing on FF with SD/HD content

[Matt Holgate]

Nathan Allworth wrote:
> Hi all.
> 
> I've got MythTV 0.20 setup on Gentoo. Occasionally the front end will
> lockup while fast forwarding, generally this occurs when skipping "in to
> the future", that is ff'ing into and past the end of the recorded
> program.

You should have a look at my patch in ticket 2434:

http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/2434

I don't know if it will help, but it certainly fixes hangs in 'watch 
recordings' while FF/REWding. I think that the LiveTV issue may be a 
different one (I've seen hangs even with this patch applied), but it's 
certainly worth giving it a go.

Looking at your logs, it looks likely that the cause is similar to that 
in 2434, so with a bit of effort it might be possible to extend the 
patch to address that.

I'll try and look at if I get time, although I'm really waiting on some 
feedback from the devs that know this code better (but not heard 
anything back so far :(...)

Let me know how it goes.
Matt.