[mythtv-users] Consistent problem with mythcommflag

[Scott Theisen]

On 8/4/22 04:21, John Pilkington wrote:
> On 03/08/2022 21:55, George Bingham wrote:
>> I am seeing a consistent problem where mythcommflag will fail on a 
>> recording with the following error:
>>
>> mythcommflag[518502]: E Decoder mythplayer.cpp:3366 (DecoderGetFrame) 
>> Player(0): Decoder timed out waiting for free video buffers.
>>
>> This happens daily on a particular show. It happens occasionally to 
>> other recordings, but it always happens to an hour long 1080 HD 
>> recording that's an afternoon Mon - Friday show.
>>
>> Other than that recording happening, no other activity is going on... 
>> I am generally not watching another channel or another recording at 
>> the time.
>>
>> My backend PC has 16 G of ram, and although it's also my main 
>> frontend and the frontend is usually running, it's just showing the 
>> menu.
>>
>> This is a recent problem, but I think it  began showing up a couple 
>> months ago.
>>
>> Anyway to address the lack of free video buffers??
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>>
>> -- George
>
> This is a wild guess, but it feels as if it could be related to
>
> https://github.com/MythTV/mythtv/pull/610
>
> I'm not sure quite where that is in the commit heirarchy...
>
> John P
>

I don't think it's related to your issue, John, and that pull request 
hasn't been merged yet.

Scott