[mythtv-users] Live Tv stalls. Again

[Mike Perkins]

On 22/07/14 09:34, Jean-Yves Avenard wrote:
> On 22 July 2014 20:26, Mike Perkins <mikep at randomtraveller.org.uk> wrote:
>
>> I'm assuming that the error messages shouldn't be truncated like that? Is
>> this an indication of buffer overflow / underflow?
> those errors are typical to myth not writing to the file any longer,
> or taking a long time to write.
>
> There are two threads at play.
> The recorder, that capture the data from the capture card, and write it to disk.
>
> and the reader which serve data to the mythfrontend client.
> WaitForReadsAllowed errors are thrown when the reader has read
> everything that there is to read and has been waiting for too long for
> more data to be available.
>
> In the backend log, you will probably see where the bottleneck is.
> Either the capture card, or the disk taking a long time to write XXX
> bytes.
>
I'm talking about the log messages *themselves*, not the errors that are 
referred to.

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Mike Perkins