[mythtv-users] Re: HD3000 DVB Recordings - Consistently Freezes on Playback

[Michael Haan]

On 1/7/06, Steve Adeff <adeffs at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Saturday 07 January 2006 13:15, Michael Haan wrote:
> > On 1/6/06, Michael Haan <michael.haan at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > 5 of the 6 total recordings, and 4 of the last 4, made with my HD3000
> > > consistently freeze in the same exact spot.  It looks to be associated
> > > with a Prebuffering pause message and when it happens, mythfrontend
> > > starts chewing-up memory until the OS shuts it down.  Replaying the
> > > recording will produce the exact result in the same exact place.
> > >
> > > Some setup specifics:
> > >
> > > FC4 and Jarod's guide built about a month ago.
> > > AMD64 3800+
> > > nVidia 6600GT, using XvMC
> > > 4 250 SATA drives in RAID 5 configuration
> > >
> > > For what it's worth, using firewire seems almost flawless, so I don't
> > > think it's my rig.
> >
> > At first, I thought this had something to do with XvMC, so I didabled
> it.
> > Same exact thing happened in the same exact place.  FWIW, this card has
> > worked in this rig before under a previous incarnation, so it's
> something
> > software.  Anyone?
>
> I've noticed this lately too with a couple recordings I've made recently,
> I
> think its due more to bad data being written since adding my 3rd tuner has
> overloaded my single drive being used for my recordings.
> You say firewire seems to record ok, have you tried doing a manual record
> with
> the dvb-tools apps to see if its Myth or something else?
>
> --
> Steve
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Not for an extended time.  I'll give that a try.  Also, the other night I
recorded two shows using both my hd3000 and my pvr-250.  Both 3000
recordings froze, but the 250's were fine.
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