[mythtv-users] Watching active recordings stops on remote frontends
Josh White
jaw1959 at gmail.com
Tue Feb 5 21:39:05 UTC 2008
Nope, I just have an old 120gb ATA133 hardrive and ext3. I record to it
from 3 tuners and access it from as many as 6 frontends over my 100mbit
network with little trouble.
Once in a while I notice a recording listed that when I attempt to play it,
I am notified that the file is missing, but otherwise, I haven't had many
problems. My Mythbuntu frontend seems prone to locking up, and I'll have to
ctrl+alt+F1 to kill it and restart, but I have keyboard on that system, and
it's not a big deal. My Macs really don't like it when I stop the backend
during playback, but that's as simple as re-launching mythtvfrontend.app.
Overall, my setup works about 90% of the time as I would like it to. To be
honest, I don't have a lot of time to troubleshoot it, so just get along
with it right now. At some point, I'll probably decide to mess with it
again. Probably not until .21 comes out though.
On Feb 5, 2008 4:01 PM, lists_mythtv_users <
lists_mythtv_users at bigpizza.co.uk> wrote:
> Josh White wrote:
> > My backend is running on Ubuntu 7.10, and I have a frontend running on
> > Ubuntu 7.10, a frontend on Mythbuntu, and two frontends running on Mac
> > OS X 10.4. I've never experienced the issue you describe with any of
> > them.
> Do you use a RAID card and/or XFS for storage on the backend?
>
> >
> > On Feb 5, 2008 3:22 PM, lists_mythtv_users
> > <lists_mythtv_users at bigpizza.co.uk
> > <mailto:lists_mythtv_users at bigpizza.co.uk>> wrote:
> >
> > Josh White wrote:
> > > I'm not experiencing the problem, and I'm also running the same
> > > version on the same OS. You MUST be doing it wrong :-)
> > >
> > Well, there's only so many ways you can start watching a recording
> > that's currently in progress. :-)
> >
> > I've got a separate frontend and backend. Backend runs on an
> OpenSUSE
> > 10.3 box and uses a 3ware RAID card for storage. It uses XFS with
> > allocsize set to 512M on mount to prevent fragmentation. The
> frontend
> > uses Ubuntu 7.10. The recordings directory is shared out from the
> > backend box over the LAN using NFS. How does your setup differ?
> >
> > > On Feb 5, 2008 3:11 PM, lists_mythtv_users
> > > <lists_mythtv_users at bigpizza.co.uk
> > <mailto:lists_mythtv_users at bigpizza.co.uk>
> > > <mailto:lists_mythtv_users at bigpizza.co.uk
> > <mailto:lists_mythtv_users at bigpizza.co.uk>>> wrote:
> > >
> > > lists_mythtv_users wrote:
> > > > Jarett Creason wrote:
> > > >
> > > >> Hey all,
> > > >>
> > > >> I'm having a problem with my Myth setup (0.20.2), I
> > searched the
> > > >> archives but couldn't find this... Yesterday, I set the
> > Super
> > > Bowl to
> > > >> record from my master backend/frontend machine, and it
> > uses the
> > > >> HDHomeRun tuner. On that machine, I was able to go to the
> > > recordings
> > > >> screen, select the recoding and tell it to play, then jump
> up
> > > to "real
> > > >> time" and watch it as it happens. I have two other remote
> > > frontends I
> > > >> also wanted to watch the game from. I did the same
> > thing, went the
> > > >> recordings menu, played the recording, then jumped to a
> > few seconds
> > > >> behind real time, but then the playback would exit back
> > to the
> > > >> recordings screen, like the recording was over. I tried
> > again, but
> > > >> this time I'd jump to a minute behind, but then after a
> > minute
> > > or so,
> > > >> it would exit again, like the recording was done. What I
> > > figured out
> > > >> was that when I press play on the recording, where ever the
> > > stream is
> > > >> currently at, that's where it exits once it reaches that
> > point,
> > > like
> > > >> it doesn't update how long the recording is while it plays.
> > > >>
> > > >> For example (since I may not be too clear), I press play
> > on the
> > > Super
> > > >> Bowl, and when I first get the picture, I press the info
> > > button, and
> > > >> it says that I'm 1 second into the recording, and the
> > recording's
> > > >> current length is 4 minutes and 30 seconds. The recording
> is
> > > growing
> > > >> though, since it's in progress. If I just let it play, 4
> > > minutes and
> > > >> 30 seconds later, the recording is 9 minutes long, but
> > the playback
> > > >> exits right there.
> > > >>
> > > >> I was able to just "Watch TV" on one of the two remote
> > > frontends using
> > > >> the 2nd tuner on the HDHomeRun, which worked fine, so I
> > had it
> > > playing
> > > >> in two places... Thanks for any help, and if I'm
> > overlooking some
> > > >> thread or already known fix for this, please just point
> > me in the
> > > >> right direction.
> > > >>
> > > >>
> > > > For info, I have been experiencing exactly the same problem.
> > > The time
> > > > offset from the beginning of a recording at which I start
> > > viewing it is
> > > > the time at which the recording will finish being played
> > by the
> > > frontend.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > From the lack of responses on the list can I assume that
> no-one
> > > else is
> > > experiencing the same problem? I'm running 0.20.2 on Ubuntu
> > 7.10.
> > > Positive confirmation from some of you kind people that
> > you're not
> > > experiencing the problem would be appreciated. It would
> > show me that
> > > the problem lies outside of my myth install and could be due
> > to my
> > > combination of hardware for instance.
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > >
> > > Steve.
> > >
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