[mythtv-users] Waited 2 seconds... Still... Any more ideas?

Curtis Wood curtis at penguinbrat.com
Sun Dec 28 10:00:43 EST 2003


Hi,

  I've had a few of these my self - mostly on 0.12 though... The one
thing I noticed that improved this 10 fold - was the fine tuning... Fine
tune it (the finetune field in the database) until there is way to much
color - and then use the adjustments to make it look right... Dont just
finetune it untill it looks right though - over tune it, and then use
the adjustments - my thinking is that when it is overtuned, it has a
very strong signal type of thing...

Curtis


On Thu, 2003-12-25 at 14:06, Tony Maro wrote:
> Well, I still can't watch more than 15 minutes or so of live TV without
> a freeze.
> 
> Here's what the system is:
> 
> AMD 1800+
> Shuttle AK32VN Mobo
> 512 MB RAM
> Voodoo3 3500 w/ TV out
> ATI TV-Wonder VE
> SB Live Value
> On-board NIC
> Mandrake 9.2
> Homebrew LIRC receiver
> Both Frontend/Backend - no other frontends
> 
> Here's what I've tried so far:
> *0.12 release
> *0.13 release
> *Compile from CVS (about 1 week ago)
> *Disabled APIC in the lilo.conf (mobo refuses to disable apic
> completely)
> *Added second hard drive, just for ringbuffer, on secondary IDE channel
> *Disabled all onboard components not in use (USB, Sound, floppy drive
> controller)
> *Recompiled my Kernel, trimmed to just what I need
> *ensured proper cooling
> 
> Keep in mind when I say freeze... I mean the video freezes and the
> console is scrolling "Waited 2 seconds"...
> 
> ONLY the frontend locks up and I have yet to have any other problems
> with the system.  With the recent CVS version, I can now hit exit the
> first time it locks up.  However, sometimes live TV will repeatedly
> freeze after only a few seconds following this until I restart the
> backend and frontend.  With the released 0.13 I would have to "kill -s
> 9" the frontend process to get it to go away and then could restart the
> frontend and go on, leaving the backend intact.  Either way, scheduled
> recordings go on just fine through the freeze...
> 
> It never freezes just playing recordings, however I have had it freeze
> playing back a live-tv recording (watching live tv, recording comes up
> and select "watch and record".)  Sometimes a pause or skip forward on a
> recording will trigger a freeze as well, especially if at the end of the
> file.
> 
> Heavier system load ensures that it will freeze quicker.  Transcoding in
> the background and watching live TV is the fastest way to freeze the
> frontend, but definitely not the only way.
> 
> If there's no ideas, I'm planning on swapping the mobo with a 1.2 GHz
> AMD I have here.  The 1.2 tends to get hot, so I didn't want it in the
> TV cabinet.  Not to mention I bought the Shuttle specifically for this
> project.  I'm getting rather frustrated here (er, rather my wife is,
> which is even worse ;-)  I see there have been a few other people
> posting this problem, but developers have seen strangely silent on this
> issue, offering no suggestions that I've seen other than requesting a
> backtrace once.  Not faulting the developers, just assuming you guys
> have never ever seen this problem first hand and aren't addressing it
> right now.  And, yes, I've googled and googled-groups the issue and read
> everything I could find.
> 
> -Tony
> 
> 
> 
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