[mythtv-users] Infinitv freezes - on commercial breaks, in SD

[Mark Perkins]

> On 26 Apr 2014, at 10:59 am, "Steve Greene" <sgreene59 at verizon.net> wrote:
> 
>> On Sat, 2014-04-26 at 10:34 +0930, Mark Perkins wrote:
>> 
>>> On 26 Apr 2014, at 9:07 am, "Steve Greene" <sgreene59 at verizon.net> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hello, I'm getting annoying and specific random freezes on the channels
>>> tuned from Verizon FIOS through my 4 tuner PCI-E Infinitv.
>>> 
>>> I get messages like this in mythfrontend.log:
>>>       Apr 25 19:29:48 [mymythbox] mythfrontend.real:
>>>       mythfrontend[1461]: W Decoder ringbuffer.cpp:1035
>>>       (WaitForReadsAllowed)
>>>       RingBuf(myth://192.168.1.4:6543/2127_20140425232937.mpg): Taking
>>>       too long to be allowed to read..
>>> 
>>> I've tried playing around with the buffer settings, but I think
>>> something else is going on, since it is pretty specific to SD channels
>>> on the commercial break. Could the inserted commercials disrupt the
>>> stream somehow? How can I change the logging to grab more relevant error
>>> messages?
>>> 
>>> TIA,
>>> 
>>> Steve
>>> 
>>> _______________________________________________
>> 
>> Is this in LiveTV only or on playback of recordings as well? And what version of MythTV are you on?
>> 
>> Assuming you are not on current fixes/0.27 or above and this is in LiveTV then you may need to update / upgrade to take advantage of some important bug fixes.
> 
> Sorry, should have specified. It is in LiveTV only and I'm running
> 0.27fixes. No issues with HD channels, or with my off-air tuners.
> 
> Steve
> 
> _______________________________________________

The symptoms sound a bit like a bug that was fixed back in Feb but it was ported to 0.27 so if you are on more or less current that shouldn't be it.

Maybe try and get a log file from startup of mythfrontend through to a freeze and post so that the experts can have a quick read through it.