<html><body><p><br />In an earlier post I reported an issue i had with my front end video going blank intermittently for 5 - 10 seconds at a time. During the video outage the audio remains running.</p>
<p>Th issue ius still ongoing but certain steps have improved the situation. The first step to assist was i moved from the standard Nvidia drivers to the "nVidia Drivers post release updates", this resulted in the issue occurring much less often, but did not relieve the situation totally. </p>
<p>When the issue occurs selecting menu or info on the remote or "M" or "I" on a keyboard resultsin no reponse until the video comes back. This, to me, suggests the issue is with video ouput but happy to be corrected. I have also seen the issue when not playing a video simply at the menu screens though this is much, much less frequent.</p>
<p>if the issue starts to occur It usually becomes frequent, i.e. every minute or so. I then can shutdown the machine, wait 20, 30 seconds and restart and the issue will, most of the time, disappear for the remainder of the session. This is not always the case but happens enouig htimes that a shutdown is now the default response.</p>
<p>it has been suggested I check GPU temperatures but am unsure how to achieve this whilst watching TV. I am sceptical that this is the issue, given the rstart repair works often (the temperature would not dissipate that quickly) but would welcome suggestions on how to check to rule this out.</p>
<p>over the weekend I think I may try attaching directly to the display temporarily to rule out Denon issues via HDMI.</p>
<p>Any assistance that can be given is appreciated.</p>
<p>Some configuration details are listed below.</p>
<p>Front end is a Zotac IONITX A-C with 60GB SSD, output via HDMI to Denon AVR3311 Amp then to Samsung Display</p>
<p>Mythfrontend version: fixes/0.25 (v0.25.1-39-geffb32b)</p>
<p>VGA compatible controller: Nvidia Corporation ION VGA (rev b1)</p>
<p>nVidia 295.49</p>
<p>Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (mythbuntu)</p>
<p>Linux main-Frontend 3.2.0-25-generic #40-Ubuntu SMP ... x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux</p>
<p>In General Palyback settings 1/8</p>
<p>Enable realtime priority threads is unticked Extra Audio Buffering is ticked as per the wiki on VDPAU.</p>
<p>I have VDPAU high Quality seleected. i have tried VDPAU Normal and VDPAU Slim but the results were very no different. High Quality seems to work otherwise.<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /></p><p><font face="Calibri" size="1"> </font></p>
<p>Thanks in advance for a great product.</p>
<p>Andrew</p>
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