[mythtv-users] Prebuffering pause on in-progress HD recordings

[Michael T. Dean]

Chris Bellew wrote:

>I've been running into prebuffering pauses while trying to watch HDTV
>recordings that are in the process of recording. My back end and front
>end are on different machines, and viewing pre-recorded HDTV programs
>works just fine - there's practically no pauses or anything. It's only
>when I'm trying to watch an HDTV program that's in the process of
>being recorded that it pauses every second or two, for about half a
>second, rendering the program unwatchable until it is finished
>recording. Once it's finished recording, I can watch it with no
>pauses. The frontend log gives "prebuffering pause" and "Prebuffer
>wait timed out 10 times." messages when I try to watch these
>in-process programs. I'm using the latest version of myth from
>subversion, and update every week or so, and have only noticed this
>problem within the last couple of weeks. My HDTV card is a pchdtv
>HD-3000 card. I also have a pvr-350 and am able to watch in-process
>recordings just fine with it.
>
>Anyone have any ideas?
>  
>
Someone else just reported that LiveTV isn't resetting time stretch to 
1.0x when catching up to the end of the buffer.  Could this be the same 
problem?

Mike