[mythtv-users] leanfront v0-123 pausing (now v0-132)

[Peter Bennett]

On 4/30/20 12:03 PM, Peter Bennett wrote:
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> On 4/30/20 8:56 AM, Jim Abernathy wrote:
>> I saw after my last test of this issue that v0-132 now is the current 
>> version so I updated and repeated the test this morning.
>>
>> Definitely weirder behavior. I started again watching an in progress 
>> recording about 30 minutes into a 2 hour recording that started at 
>> 7am.  However, the first thing I noticed was the timeline showed an 
>> end time of 3:37:23. That made no sense. Then the first time I tried 
>> to skip 1 minute with the right arrow it took 10 seconds to process 
>> that with the spinning circle.
>>
>> So I exited to check what was happening with the recording by 
>> checking with mythfrontend on Shield. No issues were found so I went 
>> back to watching via leanfront.
>>
>> I could now see that the endtime was 1:16:15 so I continued to watch 
>> as it approached that time.  When it paused for more that 10 seconds 
>> the time line said 1:16:29 / 1:16:15.
>>
>> Next I pressed back direction arrow and it started playing at 1:16:14 
>> and paused again as it approached the new endtime a few minutes 
>> later. I tried pressing right arrow this time to see if it would 
>> restart at the beginning like yesterday, but it skipped backwards and 
>> advanced the endtime to current time.
>>
>> I tried to take some photos of the timeline but because the behavior 
>> changed with each test I got confused.
>>
>> I'm looking for repeatable patterns, but haven't found one today.
>>
>> Again HD1080i ATSC USA OTA 1920x1080 at 29.94, mpeg2. All recordings for 
>> this test were done on a backend v31 using Hauppauge WinTV Quad PCIe 
>> tuner.
>>
>> Jim A
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>
> Hi Jim
>
> Thanks for the info. I am trying to recreate some of these things you 
> see. They seem to be random and may be timing related. I will let you 
> know if I find a cause or a fix, or if there is some test you can do 
> to help narrow it down.
>
> Peter

I was not able to recreate any of the problems. However, i have added 
error messages, better error checking, and retry logic. Hopefully that 
will help. The new version is v0-133-g6fdf48e.

Peter