[mythtv-users] Decoder timed out waiting for free video buffers

Paul Harrison mythtv at mythqml.net
Sun May 3 10:43:20 UTC 2020


On 03/05/2020 11:24, Klaus Becker wrote:
> Le 03/05/2020 à 05:40, Stephen Worthington a écrit :
>> On Sat, 2 May 2020 14:01:26 +0200, you wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> when watching tv with MythTV under Debian unstable, my computer becomes
>>> unusable for a long time and I get the message above....
>>>
>>> Klaus
>>
>> "Decoder timed out waiting for free video buffers" is normally a
>  software problem, not hardware.  ...
>
>
>   If I have the problem happen, and look in
>> mythbackend.log, I see the message that DBCleanup has started, but not
>> the one saying it has finished. ...
>
>
>
> Hi Stephen,
>
> thanks for all these explanations.
>
> My /var/log/mythbackend/backend.log is empty.
>
> Klaus
>

What about /var/log/mythtv/mythbackend.log?


Paul H.



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