[mythtv-users] Video Frame Buffering fails too many times

[Gary Buhrmaster]

On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 4:25 AM, Richard Brook <byronf16 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I am running 0.27 and Ubuntu 14.04. I have a WinTv HVR1600 connected to
> Analog Cable from Time Warner. Within the past two weeks, I have had Live Tv
> and Recorded Tv programs crash with an error "Video Frame Buffering fails
> too many times". I am not sure how to debug this and correct the problem.
> Perhaps recent MythTv updates have caused this problem as I have not made
> any hardware changes to my PC. I have an Nvidia 9800gtx video card and
> output to a 50" HDTV at 1900x1080p via DVI to HDMI cable. I have been using
> this PC for several years with this configuration dual booting with Windows
> 7, without issue.

I feel fairly confident in saying that you cannot have been
running Ubuntu 14.04 for several years.  So, that means
you likely changed not only the MythTV version, but the
OS version, much more recently.  And when you essentially
upgrade "everything", some new issues may be seen.

First things first, make sure you are running MythTV 0.27.3.
Numerous changes/improvements were made in Live TV in
the later fixes updates from the original 0.27.  As with all else,
the problems may not be resolved, but you are unlikely to
get much assistance if you are not on the release that
included all those fixes.

I will note that TWC in upstate NY has (for simple values)
all the same channels in clear QAM that they have on
analogue (and at least the local HD channels too).  You
might want to consider using your HVR1600 in clear QAM
mode.  I doubt it will solve the LiveTV issues, but the
quality tends to be more consistent and better, and you
get a few HD channels.

Gary