[mythtv-users] After "long" livetv pause, then rewind, mythfrontend becomes unstable

[Simon Lundell]

John Biundo wrote:

>Simon Lundell wrote:
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>>>Anybody else seen this, or got any clues?
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>>I have experienced the same thing. After a long pause the screen went 
>>black. The program was still in the ringbuffer, and was watchable from 
>>mplayer. If only I have had backed it up before entering live-tv again...
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>>>I'm fairly new to MythTV, but have decent linux skills and am willing 
>>>to try to track this problem down if I can get a little guidance on 
>>>how to best collect data, generate some hypotheses, and test them.
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>>I am not that familiar with the inner workings of mythtv, so I might not 
>>be the best person to ask.
>>Have you experimented with different ringbuffer sizes?
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>>>Thanks in advance for any help.  This problem has certainly raised 
>>>some "uncomfortableness" in the household, and has people feeling the 
>>>need to reach for video tape when something crucial needs to be recorded!
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>>I also felt a quite negative atmosphere right after the apperence of 
>>this bug...
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>>//Simon
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>Hi Simon,
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>Thanks for the reply and suggestion.  I've also decided to focus some 
>attention on the ringbuffer.  Moving it off LVM, maybe even to a 
>different filesystem (it's on JFS right now).  Maybe resizing it is a 
>good experiment too.
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>It sounds like maybe your problem is in the past -- do you still see it? 
>   If so, do you notice any particular patterns?  If not, any ideas what 
>finally resolved it?
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I guess the problem is still there. I try to avoid long pauses now. I
haven't had any time to experiment with it yet.

//Simon