[mythtv-users] frontend error messages prebuffer wait timed out

Michael T. Dean mtdean at thirdcontact.com
Mon Feb 2 03:49:25 UTC 2009


On 02/01/2009 09:19 PM, Phil Wild wrote:
>>> Does anyone have any ideas?
>> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Prebuffering_pause
> Thanks for this. I have had a look and I am not sure if it applies here...
>
> I have a 100mbit switched connection between front and back ends but will be
> changing to gigabit shortly just in case...
>
> my frontend is a 2.6Ghz AMD dual core and it tends to run at 40% when
> viewing live TV
>
> When the problem starts, my logs fill with the following
>
> 2009-02-02 02:19:15.891 LiveTV forcing JumpTo 1
> 2009-02-02 02:19:15.891 LiveTV forcing JumpTo 1
> 2009-02-02 02:19:15.891 LiveTV forcing JumpTo 1
> 2009-02-02 02:19:15.891 LiveTV forcing JumpTo 1
> 2009-02-02 02:19:15.891 LiveTV forcing JumpTo 1
> 2009-02-02 02:19:15.891 LiveTV forcing JumpTo 1
> 2009-02-02 02:19:15.891 LiveTV forcing JumpTo 1
> 2009-02-02 02:19:15.891 LiveTV forcing JumpTo 1
> 2009-02-02 02:19:15.891 LiveTV forcing JumpTo 1
> 2009-02-02 02:19:15.891 LiveTV forcing JumpTo 1
> 2009-02-02 02:19:15.891 LiveTV forcing JumpTo 1
> 2009-02-02 02:19:15.891 LiveTV forcing JumpTo 1
> 2009-02-02 02:19:15.891 LiveTV forcing JumpTo 1
>
> until the hard drive is full (which is in no time at all as I am booting
> from a USB stick)
>
> I am going to buy another usb stick today and start again with a fresh
> install.

Ahhh...  That issue.  If it gets /stuck/ in the loop that says "LiveTV 
forcing JumpTo 1" and continues until it fills the disk or until 
mythfrontend is killed, that's a whole different problem from a simple 
prebuffering pause.  (I didn't get that it was infinitely more copies of 
that last JumpTo message from your first post.)

http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/4974#comment:4 , which says to try the 
patches on http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/3618 to see if they help.  
(And, that would mean the first 2 patches for sure, Shane Shrybman or 
Daniel K. would have to let you know if you should also--or instead--use 
the 3rd patch.)

Mike


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