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1. The problem seems to be common
2. The problem is not file system or processor or
signal source (over the air or cable) related.  

It doesn't appear that switching file systems or
upgrading to 0.18.2 will fix the problem.

It also sounds like there are lots of corrupted files
that could be provided if needed to find the root
cause of the freeze.

Frank

--- Michael Haan <michael.haan at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 1/20/06, frank s <frank8205 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hello, I am a newbie to mythtv and have a setup
> that
> > is working fairly well, but is having a problem
> with
> > freezes under certain conditions.
> >
> > I have been searching the board for MythTV users
> who
> > are having a problem similar to what I am
> experiencing
> > and have turned up a couple of posts that are
> similar.
> > Neither have a posted resolution or are linked,
> but
> > they may be the same.
> >
> > First a short description of the problem as I am
> > experiencing it:
> >
> > Setup
> > - HD3000 connected to us-cable (digital)
> > - Dell 4700 w/Pentium 4 Processor 530 with HT
> > Technology (3.00GHz, 800 FSB)
> > - 512 MB RAM
> > - 160 GB EIDE SATA Hard Drive (7200 RPM)
> > - Hauppauge PVR 1081 RT connected to us-cable
> (analog)
> > - Fedora Core 4
> > - MythTV 0.18.1
> > - frontend and backend are both on this box
> >
> > Problem symptoms
> > - watching live HDTV sometimes freezes (mostly
> with
> > 720p format)
> > - playing back HDTV recordings made while watching
> > analog tv usually freeze
> > - playing back HDTV recordings made while frontend
> is
> > idle appear NOT to freeze (7 hours of recordings
> made
> > with no freeze)
> > - when freeze occurs kswapd0 becomes very active
> and
> > the disk usage grows with time
> > - a particular recording will always freeze at the
> > same point on multiple playback attempts
> > - skipping past the freeze point does not cause a
> > freeze, but audio is lost even though the video is
> > good
> > - playing the recording in the window of the
> select
> > recording page allows the video to play right
> through
> > the freeze point without freeze occurring (of
> course
> > there is no audio at all in this case)
> > - the frontend reports a prebuffering pause when
> the
> > freeze occurs
> > - the freeze occurs at the same point when mplayer
> is
> > used to play the recording
> >
> > Two previous posts that I found which appear to be
> > related to this problem are:
> >
> >
>
http://mythtv.org/pipermail/mythtv-users/2006-January/116465.html
> > and
> >
>
http://mythtv.org/pipermail/mythtv-users/2005-December/115226.html
> >
> > I would appreciate any ideas on how to correct
> this
> > issue.  Thanks in advance for your help.
> >
> > Frank
> >
> >
> >
> >
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> 
> Well, the "good" news is that now I am not an
> isolated incident of this.  I
> am experiencing almost exactly what you are.  I say
> almost because I haven't
> broken down the circumstances under which it may
> freeze.  But, when it does
> happen, my experience is exactly the same as yours. 
> My current attempt at
> fixing this involves changing out my video FS from
> reiser to ext3.  I did
> that last night but haven't be able to test it yet. 
> What FS are you using?
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