[mythtv-users] More crashing when watching live or recorded tv (Increase prebuffer?)

[Isaac Richards]

On Wednesday 06 August 2003 03:13 am, wishbone at h4b.org wrote:
> Is there a way to increase the prebuffer for watching live tv?  By
> prebuffer I mean the time it takes before it starts playing the ringbuffer?
>  I'm still having difficulties with mythtv stopping while playing recorded
> or live tv. Usually what happens is the backend will crash and the front
> end will just lockup when that happens.  I get no errors on the backend,
> but the frontend reports something about QTIME and Delaying to next
> trigger.  I even had my system just reboot once.  I've read that people
> think it's ivtv's problem, but so far:
>
> mplayer with a 10meg cache will play all night long without problems
> directly from /var/video
> mythbackend records shows for me all day long without a problem.

And once you throw in video playback (and reading the file back off the disk 
at the same time) and all the extra PCI bus bandwidth that means, things 
break.  Those chipsets do _not_ work well with the ivtv driver.  Wishful 
thinking isn't going to change that. =)

Isaac