[mythtv-users] "Timed out waiting for free video buffers" when playing recordings or live tv

[Eloy Paris]

Hi list,

On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 07:31:55PM -0500, Dave Badia wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 10:14 AM, Mark Kendall <mark.kendall at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 14 February 2011 23:06, Dave Badia <dbadia at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 11:49 AM, Matt Emmott <memmott at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Dave/Matt
> >
> > I'd first suggest you try and update to the very latest 0.24-fixes and
> > see if you are still having problems. If so, please post the full
> > output of mythfrontend -v playback.
> >
> > Your symptoms both indicate that the main video thread is deadlocked
> > (the messages are from the decoder thread) - and there have been a few
> > fixes for similar issues recently.
> >
> > regards
> >
> > Mark
> 
> I updated to the latest 24-fixes and the issue appears to be resolved
> now.  I was able to start watching a couple of programs without error.
>  Recent fix indeed as I think the 24-fixes version that gave me the
> problem was only a week or 2 old.  Thanks!

I also got bitten by this problem. It seems like the problem
is triggered when you start to play back a recording and
then press another key before playback starts. I upgraded
to 2:0.24.0+fixes.20110213.3d55e51-0ubuntu0mythbuntu1 on
Sunday 2/13 and that is when I started to experience the
problem (before 2:0.24.0+fixes.20110213 I was running
1:0.24.0+fixes27373-0ubuntu0+mythbuntu1, so it was old, i.e. pre-GIT
move, but it didn't have this problem).

I just upgraded to 2:0.24.0+fixes.20110215.72b76bd-0ubuntu0mythbuntu1
and I see that this is one of the changes:

  * [18a8200] Fix lockup when keys are pressed while playback is
    starting. (cherry picked from commit
    5ec80d83b3f37f600374ee44c4708047e2e08ea2)

So all should be good now.

Cheers,

Eloy Paris.-