[mythtv-users] FE mini-freezes when watching some recordings

[Chris Lewis]

Oh and I think all my recordings are over 5gigs, ill try some shorter ones
and a few SD ones to see if anything changes

On 1 Feb 2012 14:12, "Chris Lewis" <chrislewis915 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm seeing similar on HD recordings from dvb-s2. When it happens the FE is
> completely unresponsive to ir remote or keyboard commands.
>
> I did get some FE/BE logs the other night but they didn't contain much.
> I'll try again with -v playback to see if it sheds any light.
>
> Fwiw I'm on a dual core p4 @ 3.2ghz with 4gigs ram and a gt430 using vdpau
>
> Any advice appreciated
>
> On 1 Feb 2012 13:44, "Tim Draper" <veehexx at gmail.com> wrote:
> FE is a 330 atom with ion & VDPAU enabled.
> 2gb ram (2x 1gb iirc).
>
> when i watch shows, that are over a certain size (1hour 5gb HD
> recordings definitely do it, 40min 1.4gb files seem not to), i will
> get random mini freezes of the video after a certain period.
> the other night i was watching a 5.6gb recording, and it froze twice;
> once around 25mins, and again around 50min area. rewinding and
> replaying again does not re-produce that mini-freeze.
>
> what i suspect is happening is the video is being buffered to RAM, and
> it then gets wiped after a period (once ram is full?), which is whats
> causing the freezing.
>
> i have been SSH'd into the FE while a freeze occured. while i didnt
> catch resource usage at that exact time, CPU and RAM utilization were
> acceptable within 10-20 seconds either side of the freezing.
> (mythfrontend process)
>
> can anyone confirm/deny if my suspicions are correct, and what would
> be an appropriate solution? more ram would be an idea, but due to the
> atoms 3gb RAM limit, then i'd likely still see the freeze if it is
> indeed down to a flushing RAM issue.
> i know atoms arent highly recommended here, but i dont believe the
> underpowered state is the issue here, else i'd be experiencing issues
> alot closer together. HD playback seems fine for the shorter shows
> (around 30mins), but freezes do occur for longer running shows (1h).
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