[mythtv-users] Re:RE:Waited 2 seconds... Still... Any more ideas?

[Eloy A. Paris]

"Tony Maro" <tony at maro.net> writes:

[...]
> It's a frontend/backend combination, but I configured it to use it's NIC
> address as the master server so that I could set up the frontend on my
> desktop PC as well.
>
> But, I just changed my backend IP to be 127.0.0.1 (so localhost only
> usage, shouldn't go over the NIC) and tried setting it to MPEG4 with a
> bitrate of 1800 and it still froze at about 20 minutes.

This shouldn't matter - the kernel is smart enough to know that traffic
to itself using the NIC IP address should go to the local interface. Try
pinging your NIC's IP address and run "tcpdump -i lo". You'll see the
ICMP echo requests/replies there.

Eloy.-