[mythtv] 0.17 - mythfrontend freezing at end of recordings

[Kevin Kuphal]

Risto Treksler wrote:

>Hi
>
>I recently upgraded to 0.17 from 0.16
>
>the frontend freezes for a few seconds at the end of each recording, just 
>before it returns to the list of recordings
>
>ususally it prints 
>"Waited 2 seconds for data to become available, waiting again..." 
>into the terminal
>
>when a recording has a long commercial at the end
>when it gets to the last commercial instead of going back to the menu,
>like 0.16 did, 
>-the video freezes
>-the hard drive light goes crazy, as if it is seeking to the end of the file.
>-once the hdd light goes off it goes back to the menu
>This sometimes takes 20-30 seconds, and the video is frozen at this time
>nothing is printed in the logs until it gets to the end and then 
>"Waited 2 seconds for data to become available, waiting again..." 
>is printed once or twice before it exits to the list of recordings
>
>this is bad enough but here's the real bug that is affecting me:
>
>if i press "esc" or "pause" while the video is frozen
>then the frontend hangs and needs to be killed
>the terminal is full of
>2005-02-13 06:17:33.323 Waited too long for decoder to pause
>2005-02-13 06:17:34.333 Waited too long for decoder to pause
>2005-02-13 06:17:35.344 Waited too long for decoder to pause
>2005-02-13 06:17:36.353 Waited too long for decoder to pause
>2005-02-13 06:17:37.363 Waited too long for decoder to pause
>
>if i press some other buttons like "9"
>the frontend segfaults
>
>
>I was thinking that this would normally not be a problem
>since in 0.16 the video did not use to freeze like this for
>anywhere from 2-30 seconds at the end of a recording
>so there was no opportunity to hit any buttons
>
>Any idea why the video is freezing like this
>and why the frontend hangs or crashes when a button is pressed during one of 
>those freezes?
>
>ps
>I'll post a backtrace as soon as i recompile with debugging symbols
>
>pps
>I run Mandrake 10.0 with  a 2.4.25 kernel , OSS sound, two PVR250 cards
>commercials are set to autoskip 
>i have tried both the new libmpeg2 qand theold way of playback
>manually exiting out of the recording works fine
>
>-manually created cutlists only freeze for a few seconds at the end
> instead  of 20 seconds or so
>
>-this happens with shows that were recorded and commercial flagged with 0.16 
>as well, so it's strictly a playback issue
>  
>
I'm seeing this as well.

Kevin