[mythtv-users] Myth 0.22: What's this mean? NVP(1), Warning: Waited too long for decoder to pause

Michael T. Dean mtdean at thirdcontact.com
Tue Jan 5 02:26:10 UTC 2010


On 12/25/2009 08:54 AM, Rick wrote:
> Michael T. Dean wrote:
>> On 12/24/2009 10:19 PM, Rick wrote:
>>> While watching a recording, I wanted to skip ahead about 1.5 hours
>>> so I used the 10 minute increment method.  After about the 4th push
>>> on the remote, I noticed it wasn't responding anymore. Eventually it
>>> jumped forward (after I waited about 5-10 seconds) and it looked
>>> like the additional presses on the remote happened all at once. 
>>> After looking in the frontend log, I noticed a large number of these
>>> messages:
>>>
>>> 2009-12-24 22:10:26.481 NVP(1), Warning: Waited too long for decoder
>>> to pause
>>> 2009-12-24 22:10:26.582 NVP(1), Warning: Waited too long for decoder
>>> to pause
>>> 2009-12-24 22:10:26.682 NVP(1), Warning: Waited too long for decoder
>>> to pause
>>>
>>> What does it mean? 
>>
>> I'd guess you have a broken seektable on that recording, so Myth was
>> doing things the hard way and having a terrible time catching up with
>> you.  http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Repairing_the_Seektable (making sure
>> you first repair the database, as mentioned in the section
>> "Preparation")
>>
>> BTW, /much/ better approaches for skipping 1.5hrs into a recording
>> include:
>>
> Wow! Thanks for the tips!  For what it's worth, after reading your
> reply I did a 'mysqlcheck' on the database in another window and
> everything looked fine.  I went back to my mythfrontend and went into
> another recording.  After I hit FF and RW a few times, the remote
> stopped responding altogether inside the frontend and never returned
> even though  'irw' was registering the clicks.

BTW, you do /not/ have "Sticky Keys" set, do you--I could imagine it
causing this behavior.  (As if you have it set, you're supposed to hit
Right and let go, then hit Play (or Left, if so configured) to stop.)

Mike


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