[mythtv-users] Long delays with remote occasionally

[Larry on the Dell Laptop]

Ian Clark wrote:
> 2008/8/30 Allen Edwards <allen.p.edwards at gmail.com>
>
>   
>> [snip]
>>
>> Any logs I can look in?  Anyone know what causes this?  A cure?
>>
>>     
>
> I've not got a cure, but I do have one of the power buttons on my MCE remote
> bound to 'pkill mythfrontend' which usually means I can quickly kill and
> restart the frontend when something like this happens. (I start the frontend
> from welcome.)
>
> I assume it's a frontend issue rather than lirc.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Ian
>
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Just an update on what other things I tried.   Nothing seems to help.

1.  In another thread, it was suggested that I turn off the screen 
saver.   So  System-> Preferences-> Screensaver  and there I removed the 
check by "Activate Screensaver....".   I did this on BE and FE and then 
rebooted each.   I still occasionally  would get the delay.

2.  In another thread,  I read where cpu load would aggravate the 
problem.   So  I caused my BE to record two ATSC channels and one from 
my s-video satellite receiver.    No help here either.  Recording three 
channels at a time didn't see to help either.   Guess I really should 
have run "cpuburn" instead in the BE because I never saw top report over 
a 7 % load.    Maybe I'll try that next.

3.  Somewhere I read that if the Playback in Frontend Setup was changed 
to Slim, that would help.  Didn't help me. 

I think I'll hide the remote controls for a while then I won't hear  
noise from the WAF dept.

LJ