[mythtv-users] MythTV frontend/backend race condition?

Jeppe N. Madsen jeppenm at worldonline.dk
Thu Feb 19 03:30:01 EST 2004


On Wed, 18 Feb 2004, Shane Warren wrote:
>  
>  The problem I have been having is that if I start up mythbackend
>  and then start mythfrontend and fire up live TV, everything appears
>  to work great for somewhere between 4-8 hours then the video/audio
>  get really really choppy (progressively more so as time goes on).
>  If I ssh into the machine I see mythfrontend and mythbackend are
>  both competing for 100% of the cpu (backend using 49.1 frontend
>  using the rest, when mythtv is running normally it is using around
>  1-2% of the cpu or less).  On the terminal where mythfrontend is
>  started I see "prebuffering pause" about once a second or sometimes
>  more than once a second.  One other thing is that if I kill
>  mythfrontend at this point (with a: killall mythfrontend) then the
>  mythbackend thread that was using all the cpu also goes away.

I had the same problems (but with separate front/back ends). Upgrading to
CVS solved the problem and I can now keep livetv running overnight
without problems.

rgds
Jeppe



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