[mythtv-users] random livetv stalls

[Monkey Pet]

On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 10:47 AM, Monkey Pet <monkeypet at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
>

I saw a stall after 30 mins using the patch.  It reproduced a few times.
 The frontend is remote using streaming not nfs.  On the backend side, I am
suspecting the btrfs is slowing down the writes, so I am switch back to
ext4.


>
>
>>
>> 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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