[mythtv-users] livetv randomly stops playback

[Tim Draper]

I've been having this issue ever since moving to 0.27.3 (BE and 1 FE currently running v0.27.3-159-g2d4a7c9, I was on 0.27.1 before .3 upgrade a month ago), and dont know what to check to figure out whats going on.

i have a split FE/BE system 1BE and 3FE's and the issue appears on at least 2FE's so doesn't appear to be a client side issue.

What basically happens is that after a while, the liveTV feed will simply freeze on screen and i have to exit and restart a livetv session (for lack of a better word) to get it working again. Recordings and Films seems unaffected with playback issues. TV Source also does not appear to be the cause (happens on both DVB-T and DVB-S2 inputs, i've been able to record programs that are 7 hours). When the screen freezes, seeking through the liveTV playback results in EXTREMELY slow seeking. 20-30seconds todo 1 back step and seeking back to when the livetv signal was good, results in the screen being frozen, or at best, a few frames every few seconds.

I updated my BE today, upto v0.27.3-159-g2d4a7c9, and also the latest TBS6981 drivers but with no improvement. It does not appear to be related to ringbuffer either, as the most recent freeze was outside of the EPG program start/stop times (8 minutes past the hour, after being in livetv for over an hour with 2 program changes)

I'm guessing logs will be helpful - where, what and how? :)


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