[mythtv-users] Live TV ("Waited 2 seconds...") freeze does notoccur when using mpeg4

[Alan Snyder]

--- 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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