[mythtv-users] Waited 2 seconds... Still... Any more ideas?

[Jeff Siddall]

Tony Maro wrote:
> One more thing I learned...
> 
> I set up another mythfrontend last night.
> 
> Machine A) Combo Front/Backend has freeze problem when watching LiveTV.
> 
> Machine B) Just a frontend that accesses Machine A for the backend.
> 
> Machine B watched LiveTV being streamed from Machine A for about 8 hours 
> overnight without a freeze.  During about 4 hours of this Machine A was 
> also playing back recordings on it's own frontend.
> 
> So, from this I can assume one of two things:
> 1) The problem is only when Frontend and Backend are on the same machine
> or
> 2) The problem is only with the frontend on the hardware on that one 
> machine
> (or both, of course)
> 
> Mark Frey and I have been working together to try and fix this, but so 
> far his patches haven't changed anything on the first attempt.  I 
> thought I'd pass this little bit of info over to the list though in case 
> it triggers an "Aha!" from anyone.

I have a similar setup, and I see many freezes from machine "B" 
(frontend only).  So far I've only seen this when watching live TV (not 
prerecorded).

Jeff