[mythtv-users] Live TV ("Waited 2 seconds...") freeze does
notoccur when using mpeg4
Alan Snyder
ax763 at yahoo.com
Tue Dec 16 06:12:20 EST 2003
--- Tony Maro <tony at maro.net> wrote:
>
> > > I dont know if you are 0.13 or not, but I had
> the hangup
> > issue quite
> > > often on 0.12 - I think it had something do with
> the networking
> > > between the frontend and backend. I havent had
> anything
> > happen since I
> > > moved to 0.13....
> > >
>
> Yes, it happens in .13 - mostly will only happen
> when there is high
> processor usage (such as transcoding going on) at
> the same time as live
> TV. My kids claim it locked up once while watching
> a recording, but
> it's never done that to me.
>
> > I'm on "fairly-current" CVS (last updated Saturday
> morning, I
> > think). The problem seems totally unpredictable
> for me... it
> > happens almost completely at random. Thus I can't
> try to
> > compile with debugging to get stack traces, or run
> > in a debugger, etc. :( (although my gdb is
> apparently
> > b0rked anyway...)
>
> I bet if you started something transcoding, started
> watching live TV and
> upload a 600 meg file across the network to the
> MythTV box at the same
> time you would reproduce it... Happens every time
> for me. Really, this
> causes it every time. I also think it _only_
> happens if it's
> transcoding which explains why it wouldn't happen if
> you use MPEG4.
>
I never transcode so that's never been it here.
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