[mythtv-users] mythbackend stops responding with HDPVR
John P Poet
jppoet at gmail.com
Fri Apr 17 16:13:51 UTC 2009
On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 10:02 AM, Harley Peters
<harley at thepetersclan.net> wrote:
> Have you tried applying the DeviceReadBuffer patch at
> http://cvs.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/5604
>
> For me the hdpvr is completely useless without this patch.
> The problem is any significant video are audio corruption causes the
> hdpvr to stop recording and mythtv still thinks it is.
> The patch basically restarts the hdpvr when this happens leaving only a
> small glitch in the video.
> This is really a bug in the hdpvr but since Hauppauge doesn't seem to
> be interested in fixing it I don't know why the patch hasn't been
> mergeed into trunk.
Also, add a one second sleep to the end of your channel change script.
Without that one second sleep, Myth tries to read from the HD-PVR
before it is ready and that can also cause problems.
John
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