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

Bill Meek keemllib at gmail.com
Sun May 3 18:36:13 UTC 2020


On 5/3/20 9:47 AM, Klaus Becker wrote:
> 
> I have:
> 
> $ ls -ld /var/log/mythtv
> drwxr-sr-x 2 root adm 4,0K mai    3 13:24 /var/log/mythtv

That means that user mythtv can't write to the file. And members of
the adm group can't either. If you run mythbackend as user root,
then backend logs should appear there. Running the BE as root isn't
recommended. But, your choice.

-- 
Bill


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