[mythtv-users] 9.10/0.22 playback causes drive problems

Jonno jonnojohnson at gmail.com
Sat Nov 28 18:38:55 UTC 2009


On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 11:56 AM, Jonno <jonnojohnson at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 10:20 AM, Stuart Larson <halcyon at obfus.com> wrote:
>>> On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 11:27 PM, Jonno <jonnojohnson at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 1:43 PM, Jonno <jonnojohnson at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 11:47 AM, Jonno <jonnojohnson at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>> Since upgrading to Mythbuntu 9.10 I've been having major problems when
>>>>>> trying to watch recorded shows. I get occasional visual abberrations
>>>>>> combined with an audio distortion that sounds a bit like a light
>>>>>> saber. After a while the show will freeze and I get a message that
>>>>>> there were too many frame buffers or something like that. It also
>>>>>> makes the drive I store recordings on inaccessible and I find I have
>>>>>> to reboot.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> My setup is an ASUS P1-AH2 barebones system with on-board Nvidia 6150
>>>>>> graphics. There is an IDE drive which hosts the system and then a SATA
>>>>>> drive (xfs) which hosts the recordings. Everything ran fine on
>>>>>> Mythbuntu 9.04
>>>>>>
>>>>>> At first I noticed that the recordings drive was heavily (>90%)
>>>>>> fragmented so I've been working on that but now it is <12% fragmented
>>>>>> and the problems are still happening. It also happens on new
>>>>>> recordings which shouldn't be fragmented at all. I've run xfs_repair
>>>>>> also and it doesn't seem to come up with any error messages.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Has there been a major change in 0.22 that could mean my 6150 chipset
>>>>>> can't keep up with the graphics display?
>>>>>> Is there a way to check that the problem is with playback rather than
>>>>>> in the recording process?
>>>>>> I could add a graphics card but this will mean removing the wireless
>>>>>> card which in turn means getting around to wiring ethernet cable to
>>>>>> the tv which I haven't found time to do. I'd like to first figure out
>>>>>> if that is really the problem.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Any other suggestions would be welcome.
>>>>>
>>>>> I forgot the obvious. Will post front and backend logs this evening.
>>>>>
>>>> Ok so there is a lot of this in the backend log:
>>>> ----------
>>>> 2009-11-23 06:59:00.711 [mpeg2video @ 0x7f0cbd3c7820]ac-tex damaged at
>>>> 50 0
>>>> 2009-11-23 06:59:00.712 [mpeg2video @ 0x7f0cbd3c7820]00 motion_type at
>>>> 26 3
>>>> 2009-11-23 06:59:00.840 Reschedule requested for id 0.
>>>> 2009-11-23 06:59:00.902 [mpeg2video @ 0x7f0cbd3c7820]00 motion_type at
>>>> 44 29
>>>> 2009-11-23 06:59:00.925 [mpeg2video @ 0x7f0cbd3c7820]00 motion_type at
>>>> 11 30
>>>> 2009-11-23 06:59:01.150 [mpeg2video @ 0x7f0cbd3c7820]ac-tex damaged at 8
>>>> 23
>>>> 2009-11-23 06:59:01.331 [mpeg2video @ 0x7f0cbd3c7820]00 motion_type at
>>>> 60 59
>>>> 2009-11-23 06:59:01.592 [mpeg2video @ 0x7f0cbd3c7820]slice mismatch
>>>> ----------
>>>> Also in the frontend log is a lot of this:
>>>> Code:
>>>> ----------
>>>> 2009-11-22 21:55:10.790 [mpeg2video @ 0x7f35b0d89820]ac-tex damaged at
>>>> 84 25
>>>> 2009-11-22 21:55:10.790 [mpeg2video @ 0x7f35b0d89820]00 motion_type at
>>>> 43 26
>>>> 2009-11-22 21:55:10.792 [mpeg2video @ 0x7f35b0d89820]ac-tex damaged at
>>>> 91 28
>>>> 2009-11-22 21:55:10.796 [mpeg2video @ 0x7f35b0d89820]Warning MVs not
>>>> available
>>>> 2009-11-22 21:55:13.384 [ac3 @ 0x7f35b0d89820]frame CRC mismatch
>>>> 2009-11-22 21:55:13.415 [ac3 @ 0x7f35b0d89820]incomplete frame
>>>> 2009-11-22 21:55:13.416 [ac3 @ 0x7f35b0d89820]invalid frame size
>>>> 2009-11-22 21:55:13.914 [mpeg2video @ 0x7f35b0d89820]Warning MVs not
>>>> available
>>>> 2009-11-22 21:55:17.389 [ac3 @ 0x7f35b0d89820]frame CRC mismatch
>>>> 2009-11-22 21:55:17.425 [ac3 @ 0x7f35b0d89820]incomplete frame
>>>> 2009-11-22 21:55:17.425 [ac3 @ 0x7f35b0d89820]invalid frame size
>>>> ----------
>>>> and eventually:
>>>> ----------
>>>> 2009-11-22 22:13:27.954 NVP(0): prebuffering pause
>>>> 2009-11-22 22:13:27.999
>>>> RingBuf(/var/lib/mythtv/recordings/1181_20091121210000.mpg): Waited
>>>> 1.0 seconds for data to become available...
>>>> 2009-11-22 22:13:28.999
>>>> RingBuf(/var/lib/mythtv/recordings/1181_20091121210000.mpg): Waited
>>>> 2.0 seconds for data to become available...
>>>> 2009-11-22 22:13:29.287 NVP(0): Prebuffer wait timed out 10 times.
>>>> 2009-11-22 22:13:30.620 NVP(0): Prebuffer wait timed out 20 times.
>>>> 2009-11-22 22:13:31.001
>>>> RingBuf(/var/lib/mythtv/recordings/1181_20091121210000.mpg): Waited
>>>> 4.0 seconds for data to become available...
>>>> 2009-11-22 22:13:31.954 NVP(0): Prebuffer wait timed out 30 times.
>>>> 2009-11-22 22:13:33.287 NVP(0): Prebuffer wait timed out 40 times.
>>>> 2009-11-22 22:13:34.620 NVP(0): Prebuffer wait timed out 50 times.
>>>> 2009-11-22 22:13:35.003
>>>> RingBuf(/var/lib/mythtv/recordings/1181_20091121210000.mpg): Waited
>>>> 8.0 seconds for data to become available...
>>>> 2009-11-22 22:13:35.954 NVP(0): Prebuffer wait timed out 60 times.
>>>> 2009-11-22 22:13:37.287 NVP(0): Prebuffer wait timed out 70 times.
>>>> 2009-11-22 22:13:38.620 NVP(0): Prebuffer wait timed out 80 times.
>>>> 2009-11-22 22:13:39.954 NVP(0): Prebuffer wait timed out 90 times.
>>>> 2009-11-22 22:13:41.287 NVP(0): Prebuffer wait timed out 100 times.
>>>> 2009-11-22 22:13:41.287 NVP(0), Error: Timed out waiting for
>>>> prebuffering too long. Exiting..
>>>> 2009-11-22 22:13:41.414 TV: Attempting to change from Watching
>>>> WatchingPreRecorded to None
>>>> 2009-11-22 22:13:42.446
>>>> RingBuf(/var/lib/mythtv/recordings/1181_20091121210000.mpg): Waited
>>>> too long for ringbuffer pause..
>>>> 2009-11-22 22:13:43.452
>>>> RingBuf(/var/lib/mythtv/recordings/1181_20091121210000.mpg): Waited
>>>> too long for ringbuffer pause..
>>>> ----------
>>>>
>>> Anyone? I tried watching LiveTV last night and the picture really
>>> breaks up quite often. I'm guessing that since the backend shows
>>> errors that the problem is with recording rather than playing.
>>> I had top running while I was watching LiveTV and it didn't seem like
>>> the processor was under an undue burden. Also I didn't have any
>>> problems like this with 9.04.
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>>
>> I didn't catch what you were using to record? (maybe I missed it)  I've
>> recently had a lot of the frame CRC mismatch errors and the pskew pskew
>> sounds that come with it.  I got those errors (recordings from my
>> HDHomeRun were unwatchable) while using the built-in ethernet NIC
>> (forcedeth driver).  I put in a 10/100 card which uses the tulip driver
>> (ADMtek NC100) and aside from occasional OTA reception issues, those
>> errors and sound effects are gone.
>>
> pcHDTV 5500.
>
> What's odd is I never had any problems before the upgrade.
>

No suggestions? I really need some help with this since I can't get
through watching a show or LiveTV for more than about 30 minutes
before Mythtv gives up and tells me the video buffered too many times.


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