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

[David-Paul Niner]

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From: peloy at chapus.net (Eloy A. Paris)
To: Discussion about mythtv <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
Sent: Wed, 31 Dec 2003 08:18:20 -0500
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Waited 2 seconds... Still... Any more ideas?

> Curtis Wood <curtis at penguinbrat.com> writes:
> 
> > 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...
> 
> OK, I am also experiecing the infamous frontend freezes that have 
> been haunting some of us lately, but I fail to see how fine-tuning would
> improve the situation. We need to remember that just recording a show
> works perfectly. It's only when watching live TV that the freezes
> occur. So, if the signal is not perfect and a fine-tune would fix it,
> why there are no problems when recording, but there are when watching
> live TV? I would think that if the signal is not perfect you would
> record a low-quality signal, but you shouldn't have problems like
> freezes. Can a developer throw in some random thoughts about this?
> 
> It would also be nice to know what TV tuner card people having this
> problem are using. I personally have an ATI TV Wonder VE (bt878-
> based.) I assume people with PVR 250s and 350s are not seeing the 
> freezes. Can anyone confirm?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Eloy.-
> 
> > 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:
> [...]
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I'm seeing the freezes with a PVR 250.

My system config is as follows:

MythTV .13

Pentium 4 2.0
512meg
40gig drive, udma on, formatted reiserfs

top never shows more than about 10% usage during the freeze, so I doubt it's a
resource exhaustion issue.

David-Paul Niner