On 1/20/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Steve Adeff</b> <<a href="mailto:adeffs@gmail.com">adeffs@gmail.com</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 Friday 20 January 2006 11:14, Michael Haan wrote:<br>> On 1/20/06, Steve Adeff <<a href="mailto:adeffs@gmail.com">adeffs@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>> > On Friday 20 January 2006 10:47, Drew Tomlinson wrote:
<br>> > > On 1/19/2006 11:51 PM 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>> > > >I have been searching the board for MythTV users who<br>> > > >are having a problem similar to what I am experiencing<br>> > > >and have turned up a couple of posts that are similar.
<br>> > > > Neither have a posted resolution or are linked, but<br>> > > >they may be the same.<br>> > > ><br>> > > >First a short description of the problem as I am<br>> > > >experiencing it:
<br>> > > ><br>> > > >Setup<br>> > > >- HD3000 connected to us-cable (digital)<br>> > ><br>> > > Terrestrial here.<br>> > ><br>> > > >- Dell 4700 w/Pentium 4 Processor 530 with HT
<br>> > > >Technology (3.00GHz, 800 FSB)<br>> > ><br>> > > AMD 2800+ on Nvidia GeForce2 chipset<br>> > ><br>> > > >- 512 MB RAM<br>> > ><br>> > > Ditto.
<br>> > ><br>> > > >- 160 GB EIDE SATA Hard Drive (7200 RPM)<br>> > ><br>> > > And a 200 GB EIDE Drive in a lvm config with my 160 GB.<br>> > ><br>> > > >- Hauppauge PVR 1081 RT connected to us-cable (analog)
<br>> > ><br>> > > PVR 250<br>> > ><br>> > > >- Fedora Core 4<br>> > ><br>> > > Gentoo 2.6.13-r5 kernel.<br>> > ><br>> > > >- MythTV 0.18.1<br>
> > > >- frontend and backend are both on this box<br>> > ><br>> > > Same.<br>> > ><br>> > > >Problem symptoms<br>> > > >- watching live HDTV sometimes freezes (mostly with
<br>> > > >720p format)<br>> > > >- playing back HDTV recordings made while watching<br>> > > >analog tv usually freeze<br>> > > >- playing back HDTV recordings made while frontend is
<br>> > > >idle appear NOT to freeze (7 hours of recordings made<br>> > > >with no freeze)<br>> > > >- when freeze occurs kswapd0 becomes very active and<br>> > > >the disk usage grows with time
<br>> > ><br>> > > Haven't noticed this but then my HD3000 install is still very new.<br>> > ><br>> > > >- a particular recording will always freeze at the<br>> > > >same point on multiple playback attempts
<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>> > > I have this problem too. Suspected either I didn't have something
<br>> > > right in my config or due to weak signal. I know my signal strength<br>> > > bounces around (80, 70, 75, 65, 68, 72, etc.) on one station and so<br>> > > far, this behavior has been limited to recordings on that channel.
<br>> > ><br>> > > >- playing the recording in the window of the select<br>> > > >recording page allows the video to play right through<br>> > > >the freeze point without freeze occurring (of course
<br>> > > >there is no audio at all in this case)<br>> > ><br>> > > Haven't tried this as I have thumbnails selected.<br>> > ><br>> > > >- the frontend reports a prebuffering pause when the
<br>> > > >freeze occurs<br>> > ><br>> > > Same here.<br>> > ><br>> > > >- the freeze occurs at the same point when mplayer is<br>> > > >used to play the recording
<br>> > ><br>> > > Haven't tried this but I will.<br>> > ><br>> > > >Two previous posts that I found which appear to be<br>> > > >related to this problem are:<br>> > > >
<br>> > > ><a href="http://mythtv.org/pipermail/mythtv-users/2006-January/116465.html">http://mythtv.org/pipermail/mythtv-users/2006-January/116465.html</a><br>> > > >and<br>> > > ><a href="http://mythtv.org/pipermail/mythtv-users/2005-December/115226.html">
http://mythtv.org/pipermail/mythtv-users/2005-December/115226.html</a><br>> > > ><br>> > > >I would appreciate any ideas on how to correct this<br>> > > >issue. Thanks in advance for your help.
<br>> > ><br>> > > I'll be watching this thread with interest as I have no idea what's<br>> > > going on. :)<br>> > ><br>> > > Cheers,<br>> > ><br>> > > Drew
<br>> ><br>> > You guys should seriously consider upgrading to SVN, Lots of fixes for<br>> > HD, I've had my HD3000, and DCT6200 and a PVR150 all connected and<br>> > running fine,<br>> > HD works great, etc.
<br>><br>> So, how would that work if my original instal was from Jarod's guide?<br><br>Download and compile SVN, it will configure to put it in /usr/local which<br>should keep it seperate from 18.x installs.<br><br>
backup your database and install the SVN copy. Then you'll probably want to<br>run mythtv-setup (from the SVN installed location) to make sure things jive.<br>Run mythbackend and mythfrontend from SVN instead of 18.1.<br>
<br>Or, Isaac mention .19 coming out in the next week or so. You could also just<br>wait for that and just ignore HD for the time being.<br><br>--<br>Steve<br>_______________________________________________<br>mythtv-users mailing list
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<br>Hmmm.... well, if Axel's going to package that shortly there after then that might be an option!<br>