[mythtv-users] 0.25 - livetv fails when starting on a specificchannel

[Michael T. Dean]

On 03/19/2012 03:44 PM, Ronald Frazier wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 3:34 PM, Scott and Nicole Harris
> <snharris99 at live.com>  wrote:
>> I'm not actually using NFS, I'm using samba/cifs to mount it locally.
>> However, I'm not sure what I'm supposed to change.  When the local file system
>> is mounted, LiveTV does not work unless AlwaysStream is turned on.
>> If you can't point me in the right direction as to what I do to fix that
>> other than the work around, I'm all for learning.
>> I should also mention that it is ONLY with Live TV.  All other playback
>> (videos, recorded shows) works fine on this remote machine without
>> the "AlwayStream" setting.
> If I had to guess, it sounds like the same sort of issue Mike was
> discussing about the attributes being cached. My guess is that samba
> is caching info about the file (like update time and file size) and
> then not getting timely updats to let it know that the file was
> modified and new data added. Thus it's sitting there waiting for new
> data, oblivious to the fact that new data is already there. I don't
> know what setting you'd change to correct this, but maybe this will
> help you figure that out.

Yep.  See http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/393841#393841 .

And the request to update the wiki page if LookupCacheEnabled works 
still stands (as it still says ttl).

Mike