[mythtv-users] Problems with LiveTV

[Jeff]

This is my first post so please be kind....

I've been running mythtv for about two years now and about a month ago 
upgraded (rebuilt) my system and am now running the latest .19-fixes 
from gentoo which I do believe is the latest .19-fixes (10505) and have 
had problems ever since upgrading with liveTV locking up and HDTV 
dropping frames for 720P video until after I pause/unpause it then plays 
back smoothly most of the time (this problem was evident in .18.1 also)
As far as liveTV every time it locks up the the frontend log fills up 
with " Ignoring livetv eof in decoder loop" until I exit liveTV and of 
course this happens at the show transition. 
Also an interesting note I've seen is fairly frequently I get these 
messages in the frontend logs (using OpenGL for Video Timing):
2006-07-27 20:14:00.522 NVP: Video is 3.85111 frames ahead of audio, 
dropping frame.
2006-07-27 20:14:00.524 NVP: Video is 4.43182 frames ahead of audio, 
dropping frame.

And the last Observation I had with the .19-fixes is when I view the 
position of the playback it is normally somewhere between 3 seconds 
behind to practically zero seconds behind which strikes me as very odd.  
I don't know if it makes any difference but I am using a set top box 
controlled through an IR blaster and when changing channels mythtv 
records the actual channel change (I can see the button presses 
displayed on the OSD for the STB) so maybe thats why it isn't very far 
behind live.

My real question is I haven't seen much traffic on the list recently 
with regards to livetv lockups and wanted to know if I am the only one 
that is having these problems.  If so anyone got some pointers.  I 
really don't want to have to try to get back to  .18.1 but my wife is 
going to kill me if the  TV keeps locking up.

Thanks
Jeff




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