[mythtv-users] livetv randomly stops playback

[Jean-Yves Avenard]

Hi

On Saturday, September 20, 2014, Tim Draper <veehexx at zoho.com> wrote:

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> ---- On Sun, 14 Sep 2014 21:22:40 +0100 *Tim Draper <veehexx at zoho.com
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','veehexx at zoho.com');>>* wrote ----
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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)
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> I'm guessing logs will be helpful - where, what and how? :)
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> Just looked into this again, FE2 has the following log info.
> http://pastebin.com/WwdB8ynw.
> any thoughts as to what the problem could be?
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Would have to show the backend log at the time.
Start the backend with the extra arguments -v file

Se if test show any disk related issues
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