[mythtv-users] Fwd: Video Frame Buffering fails too many times

[Richard Brook]

Rich Brook
byronf16 at gmail.com


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From: Richard Brook <byronf16 at gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 7:00 AM
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Video Frame Buffering fails too many times
To: Gary Buhrmaster <gary.buhrmaster at gmail.com>


Hardware wise, my PC has not changed in years. I have used used various
versions of MythTv and Ubuntu, successfully, in the past, because Windows
Vista was terrible. When Windows 7 came out, I put Ubuntu in the back
burner. When 14.04 came out, I decided to look at Ubuntu again. I installed
the latest version of MythTv and the ppa's to keep it updated. I wasn't
having the video frame buffering issue until recently. I thought perhaps
one of the daily updates was the cause, but I do not know how to debug it.
I do not have an HD antenna to receive Over the Air channels. I doubt that
Scify channel comes Over the Air.
On Jul 21, 2014 3:03 AM, "Gary Buhrmaster" <gary.buhrmaster at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 4:25 AM, Richard Brook <byronf16 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I am running 0.27 and Ubuntu 14.04. I have a WinTv HVR1600 connected to
> > Analog Cable from Time Warner. Within the past two weeks, I have had
> Live Tv
> > and Recorded Tv programs crash with an error "Video Frame Buffering fails
> > too many times". I am not sure how to debug this and correct the problem.
> > Perhaps recent MythTv updates have caused this problem as I have not made
> > any hardware changes to my PC. I have an Nvidia 9800gtx video card and
> > output to a 50" HDTV at 1900x1080p via DVI to HDMI cable. I have been
> using
> > this PC for several years with this configuration dual booting with
> Windows
> > 7, without issue.
>
> I feel fairly confident in saying that you cannot have been
> running Ubuntu 14.04 for several years.  So, that means
> you likely changed not only the MythTV version, but the
> OS version, much more recently.  And when you essentially
> upgrade "everything", some new issues may be seen.
>
> First things first, make sure you are running MythTV 0.27.3.
> Numerous changes/improvements were made in Live TV in
> the later fixes updates from the original 0.27.  As with all else,
> the problems may not be resolved, but you are unlikely to
> get much assistance if you are not on the release that
> included all those fixes.
>
> I will note that TWC in upstate NY has (for simple values)
> all the same channels in clear QAM that they have on
> analogue (and at least the local HD channels too).  You
> might want to consider using your HVR1600 in clear QAM
> mode.  I doubt it will solve the LiveTV issues, but the
> quality tends to be more consistent and better, and you
> get a few HD channels.
>
> Gary
>
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