[mythtv] [mythtv-commits] Ticket #1562: Remote LiveTV: Ignoring livetv eof in decoder loop

Michael T. Dean mtdean at thirdcontact.com
Sat Mar 25 20:11:05 UTC 2006


On 03/22/2006 11:47 PM, MythTV wrote:
> #1562: Remote LiveTV: Ignoring livetv eof in decoder loop
>
>  I think I've sorted this out.
>
>  I had my recordings directory (local on my backend machine) shared via
>  samba, and mounted on my frontend using the same name (/mnt/store) as I
>  use for my recording prefix on the backend.
>
>  Apparently that messes with the remote frontend's ability to view livetv.
>  It also causes playback of recordings-in-progress to stop at the endpoint
>  of the show from the time it was opened for playback, rather than
>  continuing on until the recording ends.
>
>  Unmounting the share from my frontend solved both problems.
>
>  I don't know enough to say if that's a bug or a feature, so I'm
>  invalidating this bug.
>   

Sounds like you need to disable file attribute caching on your share.  See

http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/engine?list=mythtv&do=search_results&search_forum=all&search_string=file+attribute+caching&search_type=AND

for more info, or

http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/187982#187982

for quick links to fixes.

Mike



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