[mythtv-users] Freeze in recording playback

[Pascal Favre]

I noticed freezes when I quickly press 'pause'  several times.
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Steve Pugh 
  To: Discussion about mythtv 
  Sent: Monday, November 21, 2005 8:35 PM
  Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Freeze in recording playback


  David Hampton <hampton-sf at rainbolthampton.net> wrote: 
    I been having a strange problem for a while now where playback on my
    front end freezes randomly. When it happens, the audio stops playing
    and then about a second later the video freezes. The system is not
    hung, as I can hit the skip back button and the system will back up and
    then play right through the point where it froze before. There is no
    discernable pattern to these freezes. Sometimes the system will go 20
    minutes between freezes, sometime only 20 seconds.

    --snip--

    Anyone else seen this problem or have any idea of how I can track it
    down? Thanks.


  I wish I had a solution for you, but all I can say is that I, too, have been experiencing this problem since day one - I believe that it is related to the PVR-350 somehow, but don't know enough to comment further.

  I understand that improvements have been made to the Myth/PVR-350 combo in recent SVN builds, but I'm currently holding out for the next stable branch/release/insert-appropriate-terminology-here.  

  Before upgrading to ivtv-0.4.0, I also encountered frequent (i.e., at least once per day) hard-and-complete lockups of the PVR-350 framebuffer when watching recordings - the OSD would pop up if I pressed rewind, but the actual buffer was locked.   As you can imagine, this made for some stressfull "will it or won't it?" moments whenever it would freeze.

  Since upgrading to 0.4.0, the hard lockups have been much less frequent, perhaps once per viewing week.  Still not gone, but better.

  My $0.02.

  Best,
       Steve




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