[mythtv] 0.17 - mythfrontend freezing at end of recordings

Blammo [doh] blammo.doh at gmail.com
Mon Feb 14 05:27:53 UTC 2005


I was just about Lynched tonight because that's happening on mine as well.

latest CVS.

I'll try to get some more verbose info to post.



On Sun, 13 Feb 2005 10:34:49 -0600, Kevin Kuphal <kuphal at dls.net> wrote:
> Risto Treksler wrote:
> 
> >Hi
> >
> >I recently upgraded to 0.17 from 0.16
> >
> >the frontend freezes for a few seconds at the end of each recording, just
> >before it returns to the list of recordings
> >
> >ususally it prints
> >"Waited 2 seconds for data to become available, waiting again..."
> >into the terminal
> >
> >when a recording has a long commercial at the end
> >when it gets to the last commercial instead of going back to the menu,
> >like 0.16 did,
> >-the video freezes
> >-the hard drive light goes crazy, as if it is seeking to the end of the file.
> >-once the hdd light goes off it goes back to the menu
> >This sometimes takes 20-30 seconds, and the video is frozen at this time
> >nothing is printed in the logs until it gets to the end and then
> >"Waited 2 seconds for data to become available, waiting again..."
> >is printed once or twice before it exits to the list of recordings
> >
> >this is bad enough but here's the real bug that is affecting me:
> >
> >if i press "esc" or "pause" while the video is frozen
> >then the frontend hangs and needs to be killed
> >the terminal is full of
> >2005-02-13 06:17:33.323 Waited too long for decoder to pause
> >2005-02-13 06:17:34.333 Waited too long for decoder to pause
> >2005-02-13 06:17:35.344 Waited too long for decoder to pause
> >2005-02-13 06:17:36.353 Waited too long for decoder to pause
> >2005-02-13 06:17:37.363 Waited too long for decoder to pause
> >
> >if i press some other buttons like "9"
> >the frontend segfaults
> >
> >
> >I was thinking that this would normally not be a problem
> >since in 0.16 the video did not use to freeze like this for
> >anywhere from 2-30 seconds at the end of a recording
> >so there was no opportunity to hit any buttons
> >
> >Any idea why the video is freezing like this
> >and why the frontend hangs or crashes when a button is pressed during one of
> >those freezes?
> >
> >ps
> >I'll post a backtrace as soon as i recompile with debugging symbols
> >
> >pps
> >I run Mandrake 10.0 with  a 2.4.25 kernel , OSS sound, two PVR250 cards
> >commercials are set to autoskip
> >i have tried both the new libmpeg2 qand theold way of playback
> >manually exiting out of the recording works fine
> >
> >-manually created cutlists only freeze for a few seconds at the end
> > instead  of 20 seconds or so
> >
> >-this happens with shows that were recorded and commercial flagged with 0.16
> >as well, so it's strictly a playback issue
> >
> >
> I'm seeing this as well.
> 
> Kevin
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