[mythtv-users] Radio recordings are zero bytes; TV is fine

[Nicolas Krzywinski]

Am 22.10.2014, 05:24 Uhr, schrieb <mythtv-users-request at mythtv.org>:

> Message: 8
> Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2014 21:41:02 +0200
> From: Richard Hulme <peper03 at yahoo.com>
> To: Discussion about MythTV <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Radio recordings are zero bytes; TV is
> 	fine
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>It's locking because of an issue with buffering.  In essence, there's
> enough data in the audio buffers to play happily but not quite as much
> as it would like to have and it gets a bit stuck in a loop (playing and
> adding data but never quite getting over the threshold).  Playback is
> fine in this loop but because it never leaves it, trying to exit
> playback causes another thread to wait forever for that loop to end.
>I'm not sure what exactly is causing it.  It's certainly got something
> to do with the overall bitrate (which is why it tends to only affect DVB
> radio) but it didn't use to happen and I haven't identified exactly what
> changed.
>One workaround is to pause playback for a few seconds and then restart.
>   That lets the audio buffer fill up a bit more and stops it getting
> stuck in the loop.
>Richard
Confirmed.

This is of no importance to me, as I don't use dvb-t radio. But if you want me to do some test scenarios and provide the logs, please let me know.

(btw.: I deleted the mythfrontend.log to let it start logging from scratch. Now it doesn't log anymore. I touched it and set permissions to what they were originally. But it still doesn't log anymore. Closed mythfrontend prior and started after the above described works, of course. So, if there is a request to provide logs, s. o. has to first hint me how to repair logging... :D :D)

Nicolas

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