[mythtv-users] Video lasts for only 1 second on live TV

[Alberto Alonso]

I did indeed try to restart just the service (several times
in fact) It didn't seem to work.

As for Allan's suggestion I am about to try right now. It's been
a long day and I just got to my home computers.

Thanks,

Alberto

On Tue, 2005-10-11 at 17:32 -0400, Phil Strong wrote:
> So just as a follow up you did restart the mythbackend service after
> the backend came up.  The service not the machine.
> 
> For I had to add a sleep command after loading ivtv before I started
> the backend.  Obviously a hack but a good one :)
> 
> -Phil
> 
> On 10/11/05, Allan Mcintosh <amcintosh at atreus-systems.com> wrote:
>         
>         I was seeing buffer prepause when attempting live tv playback.
>         It would
>         pause if mythbackend was started using
>         /etc/init.d/mythbackend init script. It looks as though
>         there's an issue
>         when started via 'su' .
>         
>         so I created an alias in ~/.bashrc
>         
>         
>         alias mythbackend='mythbackend -v channel,record,playback
>         --daemon
>         --logfile /var/log/mythtv/mythbackend.log --pidfile
>         /var/log/mythtv/mythbackend.pid'
>         
>         Then start as mythuser. 
>         
>         
>         The buffer prepause occured if I ran the init script as root
>         or myth user.
>         
>         
>         >
>         > I get this very same problem sometimes on my epia box when I
>         try to
>         > autostart mythbackend
>         > after a reboot. 
>         >
>         > I kill the mythbackend process and restart manually  ... if
>         I recall
>         > "/etc/init.d/mythbackend stop"
>         > followed by "/etc/init.d/mythbackend start".
>         >
>         > I don't know the exact cause ... but the restart has never
>         failed to 
>         > solve the problem.
>         >
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