[mythtv-users] Can't use MacOS X frontend on wireless network

Eggert Thorlacius eggi at menandmice.com
Sun Jan 9 11:04:40 EST 2005


Hello

I am having problems streaming video from my backend server to a MacOS 
X frontend on a wireless network.

I have a FC2 machine running a combination frontend/backend with the 
0.16 distribution from atrpms on a machine that is connected to my TV.  
I can also hook my Mac up to Ethernet and use it as a frontend, but if 
I try using the Mac on my wireless network, the video stops after a few 
minutes and the frontend goes back to the MythTV menus.  I would 
suspect that the wireless network isn't handling the load, but when I 
try downloading episodes through MythWeb, I can download a 30 minute 
nuv file in 7 minutes (2.4 Mb/s), so I should have enough bandwidth, 
right?  It seems that a lot of people on this list are using wireless 
frontends without problems.  Is is perhaps a bug in the Mac client?

In the console log on the Mac frontend:
2005-01-08 19:28:36 Using protocol version 13
2005-01-08 19:28:40 Changing from None to WatchingRecording
2005-01-08 19:31:24 RemoteFile::Read() failed in 
RingBuffer::safe_read().
2005-01-08 19:31:27 Changing from WatchingRecording to None
2005-01-08 19:31:27 Changing from None to None
Waiting for data: 7232 13647

In /var/log/mythtv/mythbackend.log on the server:
2005-01-08 19:28:37 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback
2005-01-08 19:28:37 adding: mori.heima.net as a client (events: 0)
2005-01-08 19:28:37 MainServer::HandleAnnounce FileTransfer
2005-01-08 19:28:37 adding: mori.heima.net as a remote file transfer
2005-01-08 19:28:37 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback
2005-01-08 19:28:37 adding: mori.heima.net as a client (events: 0)
2005-01-08 19:31:25 WriteBlock(): Aborting WriteBlock, write to socket 
failed!


Thanks in advance,
Eggert Thorlacius



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