[mythtv-users] Watching recordings. Pause then drop back to selection screen

[Paul Barker]

Hi

I have a strange issue which is apparent on both of my frontends. Whilst 
watching a recorded program the image will freeze and eventually drop 
back to the selection screen.

Here is a log snippet from one frontend :

2005-09-27 11:55:07.032 write->18 50      QUERY_FILETRANSFER 20[]:[]REQUEST_BLO...
2005-09-27 11:55:07.050 Read(): reqd=128000, rcvd=128000, rept=128000, error=0
2005-09-27 11:55:07.233 write->18 50      QUERY_FILETRANSFER 20[]:[]REQUEST_BLO...
2005-09-27 11:55:07.277 Read(): reqd=128000, rcvd=128000, rept=128000, error=0
2005-09-27 11:55:07.515 write->18 50      QUERY_FILETRANSFER 20[]:[]REQUEST_BLO...
'video_output' mean = '39962.37', std. dev. = '13443.45', fps = '25.02'
2005-09-27 11:55:11.786 prebuffering pause
2005-09-27 11:55:11.786 waiting for prebuffer...
2005-09-27 11:55:11.869 WriteAudio: buffer underrun
2005-09-27 11:55:11.947 prebuffer wait timed out..
2005-09-27 11:55:11.948 waiting for prebuffer...


One of my frontends is in another room and I had been wondering if I had a cabling issue, but the above comes from a frontend plugged into the same switch as the backend.

At the point of failure the backend log doesn't show any errors (logging verbose for playback,file,network) and if I restart the playback it will happily run past the point of failure but then may ( or may not) fail again later.

I've tested all my patch leads with a cable tester and 'sar -n ALL' on the backend shows no collisions or tx or rx errors.

The b/e is FC3 kernel 2.6.12-1.1372_FC3, one f/e is the same and the other is minimyth.

Any ideas where to start ? Or do I just need to start with ethereal and capture a session ?

Cheers

Paul