[mythtv-users] Decoder timed out waiting for free video buffers

[Klaus Becker]

Le 03/05/2020 à 12:43, Paul Harrison a écrit :
> On 03/05/2020 11:24, Klaus Becker wrote:
>> Le 03/05/2020 à 05:40, Stephen Worthington a écrit :
>>> On Sat, 2 May 2020 14:01:26 +0200, you wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> when watching tv with MythTV under Debian unstable, my computer becomes
>>>> unusable for a long time and I get the message above....
>>>>
>>>> Klaus
>>>
>>> "Decoder timed out waiting for free video buffers" is normally a
>>  software problem, not hardware.  ...
>>
>>
>>   If I have the problem happen, and look in
>>> mythbackend.log, I see the message that DBCleanup has started, but not
>>> the one saying it has finished. ...
>>
>>
>>
>> Hi Stephen,
>>
>> thanks for all these explanations.
>>
>> My /var/log/mythbackend/backend.log is empty.
>>
>> Klaus
>>
> 
> What about /var/log/mythtv/mythbackend.log?
> 
> 
> Paul H.

I have no /var/log/mythtv/mythbackend.log, I created it by

# touch /var/log/mythtv/mythbackend.log.

I started the frontend and watched tv for a minute and then I looked at 
the log-file which is empty.

Klaus