[mythtv-users] Infinitv freezes - on commercial breaks, in SD
Steve Greene
sgreene59 at verizon.net
Sat Apr 26 19:49:25 UTC 2014
On Sat, 2014-04-26 at 12:14 +0930, Mark Perkins wrote:
>
> > On 26 Apr 2014, at 10:59 am, "Steve Greene" <sgreene59 at verizon.net> wrote:
> >
> >> 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,
> >>>
> >>> Stevee
> >>>
> >>> _______________________________________________
> >>
> >> 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
> >
> > _______________________________________________
>
> The symptoms sound a bit like a bug that was fixed back in Feb but it was ported to 0.27 so if you are on more or less current that shouldn't be it.
>
> Maybe try and get a log file from startup of mythfrontend through to a freeze and post so that the experts can have a quick read through it.
Looks like the mythbuntu package hasn't been updated since late January.
dpkg -l | grep "mythtv-frontend"
ii mythtv-frontend 2:0.27.0
+fixes.20140128.f1e620c-0ubuntu0mythbuntu3 amd64 Personal
video recorder application (client)
I guess I should be looking for a more up-to-date repository?
Steve
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