[mythtv-users] Infinitv freezes - on commercial breaks, in SD

[Mark Perkins]

> On 26 Apr 2014, at 9:07 am, "Steve Greene" <sgreene59 at verizon.net> wrote:
> 
> Hello, I'm getting annoying and specific random freezes on the channels
> tuned from Verizon FIOS through my 4 tuner PCI-E Infinitv.
> 
> I get messages like this in mythfrontend.log:
>        Apr 25 19:29:48 [mymythbox] mythfrontend.real:
>        mythfrontend[1461]: W Decoder ringbuffer.cpp:1035
>        (WaitForReadsAllowed)
>        RingBuf(myth://192.168.1.4:6543/2127_20140425232937.mpg): Taking
>        too long to be allowed to read..
> 
> I've tried playing around with the buffer settings, but I think
> something else is going on, since it is pretty specific to SD channels
> on the commercial break. Could the inserted commercials disrupt the
> stream somehow? How can I change the logging to grab more relevant error
> messages?
> 
> TIA,
> 
> Steve
> 
> _______________________________________________

Is this in LiveTV only or on playback of recordings as well? And what version of MythTV are you on?

Assuming you are not on current fixes/0.27 or above and this is in LiveTV then you may need to update / upgrade to take advantage of some important bug fixes.