[mythtv-users] Video lasts for only 1 second on live TV

[Alberto Alonso]

Just tried this, I'm still having the same problem. This is getting
really frustrating. Is there any debugging that can be turned on
and would generate something more meaningful?

Thanks,

Alberto

On Tue, 2005-10-11 at 09:49 -0400, Allan Mcintosh wrote:
> I was seeing buffer prepause when attempting live tv playback. It would 
> pause if mythbackend was started using
> /etc/init.d/mythbackend init script. It looks as though there's an issue 
> when started via 'su' .
> 
> so I created an alias in ~/.bashrc
> 
> 
> alias mythbackend='mythbackend -v channel,record,playback --daemon 
> --logfile /var/log/mythtv/mythbackend.log --pidfile 
> /var/log/mythtv/mythbackend.pid'
> 
> Then start as mythuser.
> 
> 
> The buffer prepause occured if I ran the init script as root or myth user.
> 
> 
> >
> > I get this very same problem sometimes on my epia box when I try to 
> > autostart mythbackend
> > after a reboot.
> >
> > I kill the mythbackend process and restart manually  ... if I recall 
> > "/etc/init.d/mythbackend stop"
> > followed by "/etc/init.d/mythbackend start".
> >
> > I don't know the exact cause ... but the restart has never failed to 
> > solve the problem.
> >
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