[mythtv-users] prebuffering pauses and mythtv 0.13

[Thomas Fjellstrom]

On December 16, 2003 04:42 am, ray cielencki wrote:
> At 05:03 12/16/2003, you wrote:
> >Just got around to trying mythtv 0.13, and for a while it looked to be
> > great, no problems, but after about 10-20 minutes of watching live TV, I
> > start getting prebuffering pauses that don't go away after they start..
> > They also cause the audio and video to get choppy.
> >
> >using a WinTV-401 in my AthlonXP 2400+ w/512MB ram backend (kernel
> >2.6.0-test11), and mythfrontend on my EPIA-M 10000N. (kernel epia1-pre9)
> >
> >I just tried starting mythfrontend again to fiddle with the sound device
> > that it uses for output, but all I got this time was a black screen.
> > heres the log for the front end:
> >
> >sherman tmp # mythfrontend
> >2003-12-16 02:53:50 Enabled verbose msgs : important general
> >connecting to backend server: 192.168.1.18:6543
> >
> >I've started mythfrontend again to see if it'll eventualy connect, but
> >mythfrontend is not reponding to the keyboard....
>
> this is a case of not being able to connect to the backend socket.
> restarting the backend should fix it. if you continue to have these
> problems try debugging: http://mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-20.html#ss20.9
>
> /rayc

I forgot to mention, after trying to restart X+KDE on my backend box, the 
entire machine locked up... So, its likely driver/kernel issue :(

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Thomas Fjellstrom
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