[mythtv-users] firewire fragility

[Mike Perkins]

On 13/06/11 23:21, Noah Meyerhans wrote:
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>
> If the system is doing nothing but recording, it can record HD all day
> with no problems at all.  However, if I connect to the backend with
> either mythweb or mythfrontend, or if commercial flagging is running
> while a recording is in progress, there's a very high likelihood that
> mythtv will somehow loose its ability to read the firewire stream.  It
> won't actually stop recording, but it won't ever write new data to the
> output file.
>
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>
> For the moment, I've worked around the problem by scheduling my viewing
> sessions to not conflict with any recordings that I might care about,
> and allowing commflag jobs to only run early in the morning, when few
> recordings happen.  This isn't an ideal situation, and I'd love to solve
> the problem permanently.  Has anybody seen (and better yet, solved)
> similar behavior?
>
One possible solution might be to consider splitting your firewire backend off 
into a separate slave box. That way it shouldn't get into conflict with whatever 
else is going on.

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Mike Perkins