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

[Stephen Worthington]

On Sun, 3 May 2020 13:32:30 +0200, you wrote:

>
>
>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

I can not remember where the Debian install puts the log files.  If
you have mlocate installed, this command should find the backend log
if it exists:

locate mythbackend.log