[mythtv-users] LiveTv playback freezes

[Taylor Ralph]

On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 1:37 PM, Don Brett <dlbrett at zoominternet.net> wrote:
> Has anyone seen LiveTv freeze when using skip ahead?  It only seems to
> happen on LiveTv, when it has it  has a certain amount of time on the clip
> (several minutes).  The log usually has something like this:
>
> ...several of these messages:
> 2010-12-19 13:09:04.521 ProgramInfo(): Updated pathname '':'' ->
> '1104_20101219130858.mpg'
> 2010-12-19 13:09:04.578 ProgramInfo(): Updated pathname '':'' ->
> '1104_20101219130858.mpg'
> 2010-12-19 13:09:04.635 ProgramInfo(): Updated pathname '':'' ->
> '1104_20101219130858.mpg'
> 2010-12-19 13:09:04.646 TV: State is LiveTV & mctx == ctx
> 2010-12-19 13:09:04.649 TV: UpdateOSDInput done
> 2010-12-19 13:09:04.649 TV: UpdateLCD done
> 2010-12-19 13:09:04.649 TV: ITVRestart done
> 2010-12-19 13:22:07.798 Dec: DoFastForward(): desiredFrame(23429) >
> last_frame(23421)
> ...then several pages of these messages
>
> 2010-12-19 13:22:21.467 NVP(2), Warning: Waited too long for decoder to
> pause
> 2010-12-19 13:22:21.568 NVP(2), Warning: Waited too long for decoder to
> pause
> 2010-12-19 13:22:21.668 NVP(2), Warning: Waited too long for decoder to
> pause
> 2010-12-19 13:22:21.768 NVP(2), Warning: Waited too long for decoder to
> pause
> 2010-12-19 13:22:21.869 NVP(2), Warning: Waited too long for decoder to
> pause
> 2010-12-19 13:22:21.969 NVP(2), Warning: Waited too long for decoder to
> pause
> 2010-12-19 13:22:22.069 NVP(2), Warning: Waited too long for decoder to
> pause
>
> I usually have to restart X (ctrl-alt-backsp) to get it back.  Any
> suggestions?
>
> Don
>

Are you running the very latest -fixes release? Many bugs have been
fixed recently for playback issues. Please provide mythfrontend
--version.

Regards.
--
Taylor