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I seem to be having some problems with playback of recorded programs.
"Live" tv works just fine.<br><br>
Some time back, after an upgrade maybe three weeks ago, I discovered that
recorded programs were playing back with very low audio. (Again, live TV
audio level was fine.) To try to compensate, I went into the various
profiles and bumped the audio level up to 100 percent. I have been unable
to play back any recordings made since that time. The screen goes blank,
and eventually the frontend seems to crash.<br><br>
Yesterday, I upgraded both IVTV and Myth to the current CVS versions.
This problem still exists. I believe this is due to some kind of audio
problem, since it started when I changed the audio level, and playing
back the captured files on a windows machine shows video, but NO audio at
all. Also, the preview display works fine -- but of course it doesn't use
the audio.<br><br>
Last night I set the system to record 2 half-hour shows at 16:00 (PVR250
and PVR350 tuners). Some time later I started playback (well, attempted
playback) and just left the system alone. This morning, the frontend had
crashed with the following messages in the messages log...<br><br>
Oct 31 16:00:03 atlas kernel: saa7115[0]: decoder set size<br>
Oct 31 16:00:03 atlas kernel: Setting full NTSC width<br>
Oct 31 16:00:03 atlas kernel: Setting full NTSC height<br>
Oct 31 16:00:03 atlas kernel: saa7115[1]: decoder set size<br>
Oct 31 16:00:03 atlas kernel: Setting full NTSC width<br>
Oct 31 16:00:03 atlas kernel: Setting full NTSC height<br>
Oct 31 16:30:02 atlas kernel: ivtv: Not enough free buffers, stream
0<br>
Oct 31 16:30:02 atlas kernel: ivtv: Not enough free buffers, stream
0<br>
Oct 31 18:10:04 atlas kernel: Out of Memory: Killed process 4575
(mythfrontend).<br><br>
Anybody know what is going on?<br><br>
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Some more information -- When starting playback of a recorded show, the
frontend ends up sucking up all available memory. Here are the
first few lines of "top" a few minutes after attempting a
playback...<br><br>
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08:51:28 up 1 day, 12:19, 5 users, load average:
16.79, 7.77, 3.62<br>
82 processes: 81 sleeping, 1 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped<br>
CPU states: 0.0% user 3.4% system
0.0% nice 0.0% iowait 96.4% idle<br>
Mem: 513796k av, 507524k used, 6272k
free, 0k
shrd, 384k buff<br>
471420k actv, 604k
in_d, 12k in_c<br>
Swap: 1044216k av, 1044216k used, 0k
free
3836k cached<br><br>
PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS
SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME CPU COMMAND<br>
7 root 15
0 0 0 0
SW 1.5 0.0 0:52 0
kscand/Normal<br>
23684 mythtv 15 0 1169M 453M
100 D 0.4 90.4 3:25 0
mythfrontend<br>
23663 mythtv 15 0 5716
316 12 S 0.1
0.0 0:04 0 mythbackend<br>
1 root 15
0 372 336 320 S
0.0 0.0 0:04 0 init<br>
2 root 15
0 0 0 0
SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 0
keventd<br><br>
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</font></tt><font size=3>Thanks,<br>
sjf </font></body>
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