[mythtv-users] Live TV ("Waited 2 seconds...") freeze does not occur when using mpeg4

[Alan Snyder]

--- aaron <aiperl at rogers.com> wrote:
> On 15 Dec 2003 18:18:51 -0600 spake Curtis of:
> 
> > I dont know if you are 0.13 or not, but I had the
> hangup issue quite
> > often on 0.12 - I think it had something do with
> the networking between
> > the frontend and backend. I havent had anything
> happen since I moved to
> > 0.13....
> > 
> 
> I'm on "fairly-current" CVS (last updated Saturday
> morning, I think). The
> problem seems totally unpredictable for me... it
> happens almost completely at
> random. Thus I can't try to compile with debugging
> to get stack traces, or run
> in a debugger, etc. :(   (although my gdb is
> apparently b0rked anyway...)
> 
> It seems like it happens less often lately, but it
> still seems to happen. This
> evening, I had it happen twice in a row: it hung, I
> restarted the frontend,
> and it hung again within 15 seconds. Then I
> restarted the frontend again, and
> it ran perfectly for two hours. Then I got bored and
> turned it off. :)
> 
Try this (suggested by someone else):  Start live TV,
pause for as close as you can to exactly 30 seconds. 
Come back in a few hours.  Does the frontend no longer
freeze?  Is it still 30 seconds behind?  Someone
suggested that their system never froze when watching
a bit behind in the ringbuffer.

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