[mythtv-users] Terrible live TV experience with HD-PVR

[Jim Stichnoth]

On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 9:23 AM, Ron Garrison <ron.garrison at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 6:24 AM, Jonathan <jonathan.625266 at earthlink.net> wrote:
>> On .26 fixes, as long as a channel change is not across sources, things seem to work well for me. But attempting to change directly from a non-HDPVR channel to a HDPVR always results in a frontend hang.  My workaround is to switch to the HDPVR source before changing channels. As you might expect, non tech-savy family members will probably struggle with this one.
>
> This is exactly my experience.  I can change from one HD-PVR channel
> to another HD-PVR channel, but when I change from my DVB channel to
> HD-PVR channel the frontend ALWAYs hangs.  It plays for about 5
> seconds then hangs.  The HD-PVR appears to still be providing a
> signal.  I will see if I can gather more info.

It would help if you could generate a complete frontend log with "-v
all,norefcount --loglevel debug".  I know of a race condition
involving the updating of the LiveTVChain, which is hard for me to
reproduce, but maybe your log would show evidence of it.

Jim