[mythtv-users] mythfrontend just says "waiting for free video buffers timed out"

Shawn core at enodev.com
Fri Jun 18 14:19:06 EDT 2004


Ahhhhhh... I was thinking something along those lines might be the case.
Some IIOP or whatever files in /tmp/ more than likely. I'm going to test
this out on my machine.

Why wouldn't the routines fail loudly on EPERM? Oh well. Will update the
list when I find out.

Thanks for the help dude!


On Fri, 2004-06-18 at 15:09 +0200, gvd wrote:
> Sorry, that I didn't react via the mailinglist, but I saw your message
> in the mailinglist archive and I had no clue how to do it differently.
> (only just subscribed)
>  
> I have my backend running as root, initially started when the system
> comes up.
>  
> If I run my frontend on an account different than root, I get the
> "waiting for free video buffers timed out" after I have paused and
> want to unpause again.
> I only hear audio for a short time, but the video keeps still. 
>  
> However, if I run my frontend with the root account, I have no
> problems. This suggests that it is related to permissions.
> I hope this helps.
>  
> Regards,
> Giel

On Wed, 2004-06-16 at 21:27 -0400, Michael T. Dean wrote:
> Shawn wrote:
> 
> >waiting for free video buffers timed out
> >waiting for free video buffers timed out
> >
> Looks like a PVR-x50...  If that's right, try a different version of the 
> drivers.

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