On 1/20/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Neil Spring</b> <<a href="mailto:nspring@cs.umd.edu">nspring@cs.umd.edu</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Jan 20, 2006, at 2:51 AM, frank s wrote:<br>> Hello, I am a newbie to mythtv and have a setup that<br>> is working fairly well, but is having a problem with<br>> freezes under certain conditions.<br><br>Yup. I get freezes too, where mythfrontend leaks memory until it
<br>dies. I've started to try to record significantly more HD than I<br>want to watch just to debug. Differences in my setup are:<br><br>> - HD3000 connected to us-cable (digital)<br><br>I'm terrestrial. I know it's all very sensitive to antenna placement...
<br><br>> - Dell 4700 w/Pentium 4 Processor 530 with HT<br>> Technology (3.00GHz, 800 FSB)<br><br>I'm amd64, and up to now thought it was a 64-bit issue.<br><br>> - 512 MB RAM<br>> - 160 GB EIDE SATA Hard Drive (7200 RPM)
<br>> - Hauppauge PVR 1081 RT connected to us-cable (analog)<br><br>I've 1G, a bigger (single) disk, and a not yet setup PVR-500 too.<br><br>> - Fedora Core 4<br><br>Debian. 2.6.15 kernel.<br><br>> - MythTV 0.18.1
<br><br>I tried 0.18.2 as well, I think with no luck, am about to try svn<br>trunk once I get it to build... not that I have high expectations.<br><br>> - frontend and backend are both on this box<br><br>Yup.<br><br>> - a particular recording will always freeze at the
<br>> same point on multiple playback attempts<br><br>absolutely.<br><br>> - skipping past the freeze point does not cause a<br>> freeze, but audio is lost even though the video is<br>> good<br><br>absolutely.
<br><br>Switching filesystems did not appear to help (ext3 -> XFS);<br>upgrading to 0.18.2 did not appear to help. As far as I'm concerned,<br>it's a bug in the decoder if there's an input stream that causes it<br>to leak all memory and die, regardless of whether that input stream
<br>is corrupt, but the lack of audio after skipping suggests to me that<br>it's not just the decoder.<br><br>Anyway, you and Michael aren't alone.<br><br>-neil<br>_______________________________________________<br>mythtv-users mailing list
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<br>While we're at it, I'm amd64 on FC4.<br>