[mythtv-users] prebuffering pauses and mythtv 0.13

[ray cielencki]

At 05:03 12/16/2003, you wrote:
>Just got around to trying mythtv 0.13, and for a while it looked to be great,
>no problems, but after about 10-20 minutes of watching live TV, I start
>getting prebuffering pauses that don't go away after they start.. They also
>cause the audio and video to get choppy.
>
>using a WinTV-401 in my AthlonXP 2400+ w/512MB ram backend (kernel
>2.6.0-test11), and mythfrontend on my EPIA-M 10000N. (kernel epia1-pre9)
>
>I just tried starting mythfrontend again to fiddle with the sound device that
>it uses for output, but all I got this time was a black screen. heres the log
>for the front end:
>
>sherman tmp # mythfrontend
>2003-12-16 02:53:50 Enabled verbose msgs : important general
>connecting to backend server: 192.168.1.18:6543
>
>I've started mythfrontend again to see if it'll eventualy connect, but
>mythfrontend is not reponding to the keyboard....

this is a case of not being able to connect to the backend socket. 
restarting the backend should fix it. if you continue to have these 
problems try debugging: http://mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-20.html#ss20.9

/rayc