[mythtv-users] Radio recordings are zero bytes; TV is fine

[Richard Hulme]

On 22/10/14 20:47, Nicolas Krzywinski wrote:
> Am 22.10.2014, 05:24 Uhr, schrieb <mythtv-users-request at mythtv.org>:
>
>> Message: 8
>> Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2014 21:41:02 +0200
>> From: Richard Hulme <peper03 at yahoo.com>
>> To: Discussion about MythTV <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
>> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Radio recordings are zero bytes; TV is
>>     fine
>> Message-ID: <5446B6CE.8010309 at yahoo.com>
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>> It's locking because of an issue with buffering.  In essence, there's
>> enough data in the audio buffers to play happily but not quite as much
>> as it would like to have and it gets a bit stuck in a loop (playing and
>> adding data but never quite getting over the threshold).  Playback is
>> fine in this loop but because it never leaves it, trying to exit
>> playback causes another thread to wait forever for that loop to end.
>> I'm not sure what exactly is causing it.  It's certainly got something
>> to do with the overall bitrate (which is why it tends to only affect DVB
>> radio) but it didn't use to happen and I haven't identified exactly what
>> changed.
>> One workaround is to pause playback for a few seconds and then restart.
>>   That lets the audio buffer fill up a bit more and stops it getting
>> stuck in the loop.
>> Richard
> Confirmed.
>
> This is of no importance to me, as I don't use dvb-t radio. But if you
> want me to do some test scenarios and provide the logs, please let me know.

Thanks for the offer.  I can reproduce the problem easily.  What's 
harder is finding the time to work through what's causing it and how to 
fix it.

Richard.