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 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 right
<br>> in my config or due to weak signal. I know my signal strength bounces<br>> around (80, 70, 75, 65, 68, 72, etc.) on one station and so far, this<br>> 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 HD,<br>I've had my HD3000, and DCT6200 and a PVR150 all connected and running fine,
<br>HD works great, etc.<br><br>--<br>Steve<br>_______________________________________________<br>mythtv-users mailing list<br><a href="mailto:mythtv-users@mythtv.org">mythtv-users@mythtv.org</a><br><a href="http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users">
http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users</a><br></blockquote></div><br>So, how would that work if my original instal was from Jarod's guide?<br>