[mythtv] Debugging DeviceReadBuffer.cpp

[Raymond Wagner]

On Jun 14, 2013, at 11:25, Malcolm Parsons <malcolm.parsons at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 14 June 2013 16:10, Michael T. Dean <mtdean at thirdcontact.com> wrote:
>> Many web browsers do terrible things to system I/O--especially when using a
>> browser profile that's on a file system with barriers enabled.  So, this or
>> something like it is a very reasonable explanation for why MythTV can't read
>> from the device.
> 
> I can believe it causes problems, but I'm not happy with the way
> MythTV just gives up.

It gives up after 128MB, on recordings that are typically something under  2MB/s.  It's a reasonable assumption that if it cannot write for over a minute, something seriously wrong has happened.