[mythtv-users] HD3000 DVB Recordings - Freezes on Playback

[Steve Adeff]

On Friday 20 January 2006 10:47, Drew Tomlinson wrote:
> On 1/19/2006 11:51 PM frank s wrote:
> >Hello, I am a newbie to mythtv and have a setup that
> >is working fairly well, but is having a problem with
> >freezes under certain conditions.
> >
> >I have been searching the board for MythTV users who
> >are having a problem similar to what I am experiencing
> >and have turned up a couple of posts that are similar.
> > Neither have a posted resolution or are linked, but
> >they may be the same.
> >
> >First a short description of the problem as I am
> >experiencing it:
> >
> >Setup
> >- HD3000 connected to us-cable (digital)
>
> Terrestrial here.
>
> >- Dell 4700 w/Pentium 4 Processor 530 with HT
> >Technology (3.00GHz, 800 FSB)
>
> AMD 2800+ on Nvidia GeForce2 chipset
>
> >- 512 MB RAM
>
> Ditto.
>
> >- 160 GB EIDE SATA Hard Drive (7200 RPM)
>
> And a 200 GB EIDE Drive in a lvm config with my 160 GB.
>
> >- Hauppauge PVR 1081 RT connected to us-cable (analog)
>
> PVR 250
>
> >- Fedora Core 4
>
> Gentoo 2.6.13-r5 kernel.
>
> >- MythTV 0.18.1
> >- frontend and backend are both on this box
>
> Same.
>
> >Problem symptoms
> >- watching live HDTV sometimes freezes (mostly with
> >720p format)
> >- playing back HDTV recordings made while watching
> >analog tv usually freeze
> >- playing back HDTV recordings made while frontend is
> >idle appear NOT to freeze (7 hours of recordings made
> >with no freeze)
> >- when freeze occurs kswapd0 becomes very active and
> >the disk usage grows with time
>
> Haven't noticed this but then my HD3000 install is still very new.
>
> >- a particular recording will always freeze at the
> >same point on multiple playback attempts
> >- skipping past the freeze point does not cause a
> >freeze, but audio is lost even though the video is
> >good
>
> I have this problem too.  Suspected either I didn't have something right
> in my config or due to weak signal.  I know my signal strength bounces
> around (80, 70, 75, 65, 68, 72, etc.)  on one station and so far, this
> behavior has been limited to recordings on that channel.
>
> >- playing the recording in the window of the select
> >recording page allows the video to play right through
> >the freeze point without freeze occurring (of course
> >there is no audio at all in this case)
>
> Haven't tried this as I have thumbnails selected.
>
> >- the frontend reports a prebuffering pause when the
> >freeze occurs
>
> Same here.
>
> >- the freeze occurs at the same point when mplayer is
> >used to play the recording
>
> Haven't tried this but I will.
>
> >Two previous posts that I found which appear to be
> >related to this problem are:
> >
> >http://mythtv.org/pipermail/mythtv-users/2006-January/116465.html
> >and
> >http://mythtv.org/pipermail/mythtv-users/2005-December/115226.html
> >
> >I would appreciate any ideas on how to correct this
> >issue.  Thanks in advance for your help.
>
> I'll be watching this thread with interest as I have no idea what's
> going on.  :)
>
> Cheers,
>
> Drew

You guys should seriously consider upgrading to SVN, Lots of fixes for HD, 
I've had my HD3000, and DCT6200 and a PVR150 all connected and running fine, 
HD works great, etc.

-- 
Steve