[mythtv-users] Problems with frontend crashing

[Tony Maro]

Tony Maro wrote:

> I'll add this - my remote control problem is related to transcode in 
> the background.  Apparently the irxevent isn't getting enough 
> processor cycles to accurately interpret my raw IR signals.
>
> I have also noticed I can force a crash by starting live TV and then 
> uploading a DIVX file across the network from another machine... 
> increasing the workstation load and network traffic.  Last night my 
> daughter was watching live TV, and I went to my workstation and 
> uploaded a ripped DVD.  I walked back in the living room and asked how 
> the remote was working and she said "it's not working well now" and 
> then all of a sudden the frontend froze.
> I fixed the irxevent problem by starting it with "sudo nice --14 
> irxevent &" (I added my mythtv user to the sudo list for nice.)
>
> It seems to only happen when the frontend is at the end of the 
> stream.  If I watch TV a few minutes behind live stream, it doesn't 
> seem to do this.  Perhaps the frontend is trying to auto-correct frame 
> speed to a point that's beyond the real current stream?  Having a 99% 
> load while transcoding seems to make it more likely to happen.  Having 
> heavy network traffic almost guarantees it.

Wow, quoting myself now. ;-)

Anyway, I left Live TV running for quite some time without a crash.

But... what I did was pause it for 15 seconds then let it go so I was 
lagging 15 seconds behind the live stream.

-Tony