[mythtv-users] random livetv stalls

Monkey Pet monkeypet at gmail.com
Thu Feb 20 18:47:38 UTC 2014


On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 3:27 PM, Jean-Yves Avenard <jyavenard at gmail.com>wrote:

> On 20 February 2014 08:55, Doug Lytle <support at drdos.info> wrote:
> > What would this have caused?
> >
> > I put the patch into place on my mother's system this morning.
>

How often are people seeing these stalls in LiveTV? I applied the patch on
my backend and LiveTV seems smooth.  However, I didn't test the before
patch LiveTV, so I don't know if this is an improvement or not.


>
> It means that if safe_read encounters EOF, all further attempt will
> fail. When watching liveTV it means it will exit after 360ms before
> doing it again (when ringbuffer calls safe_read() once again)
>
> In practice, it doesn't really matter as 360ms is nothing with the
> type of bitrate seen in live TV.
>
> It will be corrected of course though
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