[mythtv-users] 0.25-fixes 'Video Frame Buffering Failed Too Many Times' whenever a new program starts (Live TV)

[Jim Stichnoth]

On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 10:42 AM, Scott and Nicole Harris
<snharris99 at live.com> wrote:
>> Are you referring to this commit?
>>
>> In 2531893d539ceb7158033a5862e9fbd51e01da1d/mythtv:
>> RingBuffer?: Set the oldfile flag only once per live TV segment.
>>
>> So far this is only in Master, not 0.25-fixes, because I don't believe
>> it is addressing the root cause.
>>
>> I appreciate feedback on these changes, since the problem is affecting
>> different systems in different ways.
>>
>> By the way, the slight stuttering at program transitions is
>> unavoidable for now, according to Daniel K., since there is some DB
>> stuff going on within the UI thread that won't necessarily complete
>> within a 60Hz (or whatever) frame interval.
>>
>> Jim
>
>
> I don't know what to tell you, my frontend failed to the main menu at LiveTV
> transitions 100% (literally) of the time from the time I upgraded to 0.25 a
> few weeks ago.  Since the update that coresponded to that comment in 10490,
> I have not had one single failure.  As far as the ~1 stutter, I wasn't
> complaining, I was rejoicing :).

Since 0.25 has been out less than a week, it sounds like you've been
running Master, meaning you picked up the commit in question and it
helped.  That's good to hear.

Jim