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

[Steve Greene]

On Sat, 2014-04-26 at 10:34 +0930, Mark Perkins wrote:
> 
> > 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.

Sorry, should have specified. It is in LiveTV only and I'm running
0.27fixes. No issues with HD channels, or with my off-air tuners.

Steve