[mythtv-users] Live TV stops after a few hours.

[Graham Dunn]

On Mon, Mar 28, 2005 at 10:03:15AM -0500, Ken Mink wrote:
> Hi Michael,
>   This problem doesn't appear to be very common. A couple of us have
> been trying to track down the cause. Could you post some info about
> your rig; distro, versions, hardware, etc?

I've seen this once.

I'm running a stock KnoppMyth R5A12, PVR250, Geforce2 MX400

/dev/hda3 on /cache type ext2 (rw)

/dev/hda3              2104260      3016   2101244   1% /cache

After the crash, /cache was full (as expected).

Live TV was running for at least a couple hours (at my capture settings,
/cache is only good for an hour).

mysql> select * from settings where value like "%buffer%";
+---------------------------+--------------+----------+
| value                     | data         | hostname |
+---------------------------+--------------+----------+
| LiveBufferDir             | /cache/cache | myth     |
| BufferSize                | 2            | myth     |
| MaxBufferFill             | 50           | myth     |
| AggressiveSoundcardBuffer | 0            | myth     |
| CCBufferWarnings          | 1            | myth     |
| HDRingbufferSize          | 9400         | NULL     |
+---------------------------+--------------+----------+
6 rows in set (0.00 sec)

Graham


> 
> Thanks,
> Ken
> 
> 
> On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 06:08:42 -0800 (PST), Michael Carland
> <mcarland at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > --- Ken Mink <kmmyth at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Welcome to the group. This is a known, yet not wide spread, problem
> > > where the backend crashes when the live buffer gets full. A bug was
> > > filed in bugzilla on it and it has been posted to the dev list a
> > > number of times. Currently the only work around that I've seen is to
> > > set your live buffer to be very large and remember to change channels
> > > every once in a while. My problem is that I forget to pop out to the
> > > menu before going to bed or leaving for the day.
> > >
> > > http://www.mythtv.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=228
> > >
> > > Good luck,
> > > Ken
> > 
> > Thanks!
> > 
> > I feel like I'm drinking from a fire hose, reading this list. And while
> > I'm usually good at finding stuff in Google, for some reason my searches
> > on Myth are not fruitful. It's good to know so much is going on though.
> > 
> > I think I have a 3 hour live buffer, so that should be an easy workaround.
> > I had just left live tv running overnight to see if it was stable. I don't
> > think this will normally bite my, I'll just have to be careful with the
> > kids watching SpongeBob marathons.
> > 
> > -Michael
> > 
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