Hi everyone,<br>
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<span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-style: italic;"></span></span>It would be great if someone could shed some light on this problem...<br>
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I have a myth backend running on a 2.66GHz P4 with 2Gb of memory. It's serving over a 10/100 DLink router.<br>
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I can use frontend locally of course, plus using my Gentoo thinkpad, with no problems at all. Works great.<br>
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But I also have a frontend running on a MacMini G4 with 512Mb. On
this frontend, WatchingLiveTV is fine, but when playing back
prerecorded I am frequently getting this error:<br>
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- typically plays three or four seconds of video, then stops (goes blank and then returns to list of recordings)<br>
- seems to happen only with a subset of the recordings, and I haven't been able to narrow down what the common factor is. <br>
- on any recording from this subset, there is a 4 in 5 chance that it will fail<br>
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Here is how it appears in the logs:<br>
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2006-03-14 09:53:56.178 Changing from None to WatchingPreRecorded<br>
2006-03-14 09:53:56.178 Video timing method: USleep with busy wait<br>
2006-03-14 09:54:00.324 prebuffering pause <br>
2006-03-14 09:54:02.400 Waited too long for ringbuffer pause..<br>
2006-03-14 09:54:03.401 Waited too long for ringbuffer pause..<br>
2006-03-14 09:54:04.401 Waited too long for ringbuffer pause..<br>
2006-03-14 09:54:05.402 Waited too long for ringbuffer pause..<br>
2006-03-14 09:54:06.402 Waited too long for ringbuffer pause..<br>
2006-03-14 09:54:07.402 Waited too long for ringbuffer pause..<br>
2006-03-14 09:54:08.403 Waited too long for ringbuffer pause.. <br>
2006-03-14 09:54:08.550 RemoteFile::Read() failed in RingBuffer::safe_read().<br>
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This is also appearing in the logs (slightly different):<br>
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2006-03-14 09:52:21.024 Changing from None to WatchingPreRecorded<br>
2006-03-14 09:52:21.028 Video timing method: USleep with busy wait<br>
2006-03-14 09:52:25.399 prebuffering pause <br>
2006-03-14 09:52:28.440 Waited 4 seconds for data to become available, waiting again...<br>
2006-03-14 09:52:32.546 Waited too long for ringbuffer pause..<br>
2006-03-14 09:52:33.547 Waited too long for ringbuffer pause.. <br>
2006-03-14 09:52:33.713 RemoteFile::Read() failed in RingBuffer::safe_read().<br>
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Here is a sample of the log from the startup of the frontend:<br>
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2006-03-14 09:51:34.151 New DB connection, total: 1<br>
Total desktop width=1024, height=768, numscreens=1<br>
2006-03-14 09:51:34.217 Using screen 0, 1024x768 at 0,0<br>
2006-03-14 09:51: 34.268 mythfrontend version: 0.18.1.20050510-1 <a href="http://www.mythtv.org/" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">www.mythtv.org</a><br>
2006-03-14 09:51:34.269 Enabled verbose msgs : important general<br>
2006-03-14 09:51:34.888 Switching to square mode (G.A.N.T .)<br>
2006-03-14 09:51:35.775 Registering Internal as a media playback plugin.<br>
2006-03-14 09:51:53.769 New DB connection, total: 2<br>
2006-03-14 09:51:53.853 Connecting to backend server: <a href="http://192.168.0.112:6543/" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">192.168.0.112:6543</a> (try 1 of 5)<br>
2006-03-14 09:51:53.859 Using protocol version 15<br>
2006-03-14 09:51:53.948 Using protocol version 15<br>
2006-03-14 09:51:56.558 Opening audio device ''.<br>
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Thanks everyone!<br>
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