[mythtv-users] Frontend freezes after LiveTV playback of ~30 seconds.

[Daniel Jimenez]

I'm still fighting this. I now notice that this occurs on recordings as 
well. No one else has seen this error? I'm considering using CVS, but 
don't immediately have the time.

Daniel Jimenez wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> After watching LIVETV for about 30 seconds I seem to get the following 
> errors:
> 
> 2004-01-25 17:01:44 Changing from None to WatchingLiveTV
> 2004-01-25 17:02:15 prebuffering pause
> 2004-01-25 17:02:15 ReadStringList timeout (quick).
> QSocketDevice::writeBlock: Invalid socket
> 2004-01-25 17:02:15 Error writing stringlist
> QSocketDevice::writeBlock: Invalid socket
> 2004-01-25 17:02:16 Error writing stringlist
> Waited 2 seconds for data to become available, waiting again...
> Waited 2 seconds for data to become available, waiting again...
> Errm, event socket just closed.
> Waited 2 seconds for data to become available, waiting again...
> Waited 2 seconds for data to become available, waiting again...
> Waited 2 seconds for data to become available, waiting again...
> Waited 2 seconds for data to become available, waiting again...
> Waited 2 seconds for data to become available, waiting again...
> Waited 2 seconds for data to become available, waiting again...
> Waited 2 seconds for data to become available, waiting again...
> 
> The data never becomes avaliable again.
> 
> This happens both on my local, and remote frontends. I've tried reducing 
> the recording quality on RTJpeg down to 70 from 220 and the same issue 
> still cropped up.
> 
> The backend is an Athlon 2500+ with 512 MB RAM, during the errors there 
> is no significant increase in processor or ram usage. It has an AverTV 
> Stereo card.
> 
> For the last week, MythTV was working perfectly. This issue just cropped 
> up today. Anyone else using an AverTV Stereo card okay?
> 

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Daniel Jimenez <djimenez[at]pobox[dot]com>